DANIEL DIERMEIER: Good evening. My name is Daniel Diermeier. I am the Provost of the University of Chicago. And it's my great pleasure to welcome you to the Logan Center here tonight. I am thrilled to welcome the Rosenberger winner, Kerry James Marshall, to the Logan and to the University of Chicago.
He was awarded the Rosenberger medal in 2016 to honor his work in the field of painting and his contribution to Chicago. We were also honored Kerry conducted a master class here this afternoon with our students and with our artists in residence. I'd like to thank everybody who participated to make this evening possible today, especially the Office of Universal Events and Ceremonies, the Department of Visual Arts, the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture, and, of course, the Logan Center faculty and staff for organizing today's event https://oncasinogames.com/citadel-casinos/. I'd also like to acknowledge Jackie Stewart, professor in the Department of Cinema Media Studies at the college who will be joining Kerry James Marshall for question and answer periods later in the lecture. And now it's my great pleasure to welcome Jessica Stockholder, the Raymond W. and Martha Hilpert Gruner Distinguished Service Professor and chair of the Department of Visual Arts to introduce Kerry James Marshall. Thank you. [APPLAUSE] JESSICA STOCKHOLDER: Hi. My pleasure to be here to introduce Kerry James Marshall. In 2016, we at the University of Chicago were thrilled to name him as the recipient of the Rosenberger Medal, given for outstanding achievement in the creative and performing arts. This evening, he's going to deliver a talk titled, "As Luck Would Have It." Marshall was born in 1955 in Birmingham, Alabama. He grew up in South Central Los Angeles and studied there at the Otis Art Institute where in 1978 he earned his BFA and in '99 an honorary doctorate. And he just told me this evening that he as of today has another honorary doctorate at SAIC. Marshall moved to Chicago. [APPLAUSE] Yes. Marshall moved to Chicago over 30 years ago. And he taught at UIC for many years where he garnered a reputation for being an outstanding educator, which I heard ripples of on the East Coast long before I moved here. And at that same time, over those years, he produced the extraordinary body of work that he's now known so widely for. Over the years, Marshall's work has been featured in more prominent institutions than I can reference, including the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, the Secession in Vienna, the Vancouver Art Gallery in Canada, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio. In 2014, Marshall was the recipient of the Wolfgang Hahn Prize, an award given annually by the Gesellschaft fur Moderne Kunst at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne. In 2013, he was one of seven new appointees named to President Barack Obama's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. In 1997, he received a MacArthur Foundation Grant, and in '91, a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2007, Art Forum noted that Marshall was the star of documenta 12, the renowned international survey of contemporary art that takes place every five years in Kassel, Germany. His work has been profiled in numerous international art magazines and journals. And there have been many monographic publications dedicated to his work. His work is included in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art here, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Gallery in Washington DC, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and the Whitney Museum in New York. In the wake of his mind altering retrospective, which many of us here in Chicago were privileged to see last year as it originated at the Art Institute before traveling to the Met Breuer in New York City and then to the LA Museum of Contemporary Art. It was at the MCA, right?
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