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Join us to celebrate our current exhibition Federico Solmi: The Great Farce. Artist Federico Solmi will be in conversation with Özge Samanci, Associate Professor in the School of Communication, Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program Faculty Board at Northwestern University, to discuss the technical and conceptual aspects of Solmi’s work, which uses satire to explore history and mythmaking. Their conversation will be moderated by Janet Dees, Steven and Lisa Munster Tananbaum Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. The conversation will close with an audience Q&A. 

Participation level – light, participants can choose to participate by submitting questions via Social Q&A or requesting the microphone to ask a question. 

Programs are open to all, on a first-come first-served basis. RSVPs are not required, but are appreciated. 

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Federico Solmi (Bologna, Italy 1973) has lived in New York since 1999. His groundbreaking work was recognized with a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in 2009. Solo museum surveys include American Circus at the Haifa Museum of Art in Haifa, Israel, in 2016; The Grand Masquerade at the Tarble Art Center in Charleston, Illinois, in 2019; and Joie de Vivre at the Morris Museum in Morristown, New Jersey, in 2022–23.  

His work was included in the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery’s traveling exhibition The Outwin 2019: American Portraiture Today. In 2021, he was featured in the Phillips Collection’s centennial exhibition Seeing Differently. He has participated in several international biennial exhibitions, including the SITE Santa Fe Biennial in New Mexico in 2010; Venice Biennale in 2011. 

From 2016 to 2019, Solmi was Visiting Professor at Yale University School of Art and Yale School of Drama, New Haven, Connecticut. He was appointed Guest Critic at the Yale University School of Art for 2022.