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LACS is delighted to feature Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle (Chair of Art, Theory, Practice at Northwestern University) in conversation with independent curator Abigail Winograd.  They will discuss their installation Sonoran Desert Well.  Lunch will be served at this event.

Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle is an American conceptual artist known for multidisciplinary, socially oriented sculpture, video and installations and urban community-based projects. His work often explores a dialectical relationship involving minimalist aesthetics, the utopian ambitions of modernism and science, and the resulting—often negative—social, geopolitical, and ecological consequences of such ideologies. Manglano-Ovalle’s diverse work is connected by its interest in probing the underlying forces, systems and histories that shape and describe contemporary identity, ethics, aesthetics, climate, and politics. His projects have employed multi-faceted, community-oriented strategies to explore cultural identity, migration and immigration, social and geographic boundaries, and urban violence. His current work initiates wider sociopolitical dialogues on culture, science and technology, ecosystems, and geopolitics.

Abigail Winograd is an independent curator and writer.  She served as commissioner and curator of the United States Pavilion at the 60th Biennale di Venezia.  Until April 2023, she was Curator-at-large and MacArthur Fellows Program Fortieth Anniversary Exhibition Curator at the Gray Center for the Arts and Inquiry, a role she originated at the Smart Museum of Art. Prior to her appointment at the Smart, Winograd organized exhibitions for the Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow, SESC Piñheros, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Center for Contemporary Art Brussels, among others.  She received a PhD in art history from the University of Texas at Austin and has an MA from Northwestern University.