MFA Fine Arts presents a talk by Inka Essenhigh (MFA 1994 Fine Arts).
Inka Essenhigh (b. 1969 in Bellefonte, PA) received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts and her BFA from the Columbus College of Art and Design in Columbus, OH. In 2018, a major mid-career retrospective of her work traveled from the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA, to the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI. The following year, the Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA, hosted another significant solo exhibition of her work.
Essenhigh’s work has been the subject of recent solo exhibitions at Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; Victoria Miro Gallery, Venice, Italy; Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA; Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL; The Drawing Center, New York, NY; Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA; Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI; Frist Center, Nashville, TN; Honolulu Gallery, Zürich, Switzerland; and Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO.
The artist has been included in group exhibitions at numerous international institutions including the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA; Carré d’Art - Musée d’art contemporain de Nîmes, Nîmes, France; Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO; Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME; FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY; Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense, Denmark; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY; Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; SMAK: Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany; Stedelijk Museum voor Actuelle Kunst, Ghent, Belgium; Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom; and elsewhere.
Her work may be found in the collections of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO; Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME; Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN; Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Miami, FL; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA; Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY; Tate Gallery, London, United Kingdom; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY. Essenhigh lives and works in New York, NY.
Talks is a series of lectures by artists, writers and scholars presented by MFA Fine Arts. Talks are held on Tuesdays at 3:00pm at 133 West 21st Street in Room 101C and on Zoom. Participation in the Q&A is limited to MFA Fine Arts students attending the lecture in person.
