Martine Syms Artist Talk

Wed Nov 05 2025 at 06:00 pm to 07:00 pm UTC-05:00

List Art Building | Providence

Department of Visual Art
Publisher/HostDepartment of Visual Art
Martine Syms Artist Talk
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The Department of Visual Art at Brown University presents a lecture by Martine Syms.
About this Event

Martine Syms is an artist who has earned wide recognition for a practice that combines conceptual grit, humor, and social commentary. She has shown extensively including exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. She has also done commissioned work for brands such as Louis Vuitton, Prada, Nike, and Celine, among others. She is a recipient of the Herb Alpert Award, the Creative Capital Award, a United States Artists fellowship, the Tiffany Foundation award, the Future Fields Art Prize and is a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow. Syms is the writer and director of The African Desperate (MUBI), which was the closing night film of New Directors/New Films 2022 and nominated for an Independent Spirit Award in 2023.


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List Art Building, 64 College Street, Providence, United States

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