Artist Talk: Erin Shirreff

Thu Aug 07 2025 at 06:15 pm to 07:15 pm UTC-05:00

700 N Art Museum Dr, Milwaukee, WI, United States, Wisconsin 53202 | Milwaukee

Milwaukee Art Museum
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Artist Talk: Erin Shirreff
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Join us for the next event in our Artist Talk series, featuring internationally renowned contemporary artist Erin Shirreff. Hear from Shirreff as she delves into her boundary-crossing studio practice—which blends photography, sculpture, and video—and her artworks on view in "Erin Shirreff: Permanent Drafts." This is the most comprehensive exhibition in a decade of works by Shirreff and showcases more than 40 recent works, including installations specific to the Museum.
The Artist Talk series welcomes emerging, mid-career, and established artists to share what it means to live creatively. Discussing motivation, medium, and technique, artists will reveal how and why their work expresses their emotions and ideas.
About Erin Shirreff
Erin Shirreff is a Montréal-based artist who has spent over fifteen years making art that works around and against traditional medium divisions and definitions. Although trained as a sculptor, her cross-disciplinary practice is grounded in photography and the creative gaps and elisions of its two-dimensional representation of a three-dimensional world.
Shirreff’s work has been featured in recent solo exhibitions at SITE Santa Fe (2024); the Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Mass (2021–22); the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2019); and Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland (2016). A survey exhibition of her photography, sculpture, and video was co-organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY in 2015–16. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, among others.
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