6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
December 02, 2025
Public Lecture: Jay Heikes - Raspberry Puree
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Jay Heikes
Join Cranbrook Academy of Art at deSalle Auditorium for a free, public lecture with Jay Heikes on Tuesday, December 2, 2025. In his lecture, Heikes will discuss his 2024 exhibition, Evolve, at Marianna Boesky Gallery in New York, NY, mutating into his 2025 exhibition, Second Wave, at Adams and Ollman in Portland, OR.
Please note that Cranbrook Art Museum’s galleries will be closed. Enter the lecture through the Cranbrook Academy of Art Library doors.
Heikes’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE; the Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, CA; the Aspen Art Museum, CO; and the Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia, PA. His work has been featured in group exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY; the Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY; and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY.
He was also featured in the 2006 Whitney Biennial, curated by Chrissie Iles and Philippe Vergne, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY. Heikes earned an MFA from Yale University and a BFA from the University of Michigan. He lives in St. Paul and works in Minneapolis, MN.
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Jay Heikes
Popular Creeps, 2024
oil paint and water-based ink on nylon screen
45 1/4h x 33 1/4w x 1 7/8d in
114.94h x 84.45w x 4.76d cm
JH_017
Courtesy of the artist, Adams and Ollman Gallery.