For this Artists at Work, ISCP artist-in-residence Tore Hallas will be joined by curator Evan Garza. Hallas will speak with Garza about his exploration of fatness and queerness as intertwined identities shaped by religion, class and mental health, as well as by broader social and systemic forms of oppression. They will discuss how Hallas’s work reflects on the ways bodies and minds marked as ‘other’ encounter and navigate the world. A Q&A with the audience will follow.
Tore Hallas works across video, photography, and text to examine embodiment, intimacy and belonging. Themes of movement and displacement, both physical and symbolic, recur throughout his work. He has exhibited at KINDL–Centre for Contemporary Art, Germany; Fuglsang Kunstmuseum; ARKEN Museum of Contemporary Art; Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen,all in Denmark, among others. His work is in the collections of ARKEN Museum of Contemporary Art; Sorø Art Museum; Vejle Museum of Art, all in Denmark, and Malmö Museum of Art, Sweden.
Evan Garza is a contemporary art scholar, queer art historian, and curator at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts. They recently edited Steve Locke: I Said What I Said, the artist’s first career monograph. Honors include a Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Archives Research Residency, a Fulbright Scholarship at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), and curatorial grants from Teiger Foundation and The Andy Warhol Foundation. Garza has held curatorial and institutional leadership roles at the Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University, Texas, the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas, and School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (now SMFA at Tufts). Garza was cofounder of Fire Island Artist Residency (FIAR), a New York nonprofit and the first residency program in the world exclusively for LGBTQIA2S+ artists. They earned their M.A. from the Williams Graduate Program in the History of Art at the Clark Art Institute.
This program is supported by Danish Arts Foundation; Bloomberg Philanthropies; Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso; Hartfield Foundation; James Rosenquist Foundation; Marion Boulton “Kippy” Stroud Foundation; Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation; New York City Council District 34; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature; Robert Rauschenberg Foundation; van Beuren Charitable Foundation; and William Talbott Hillman Foundation.
