Cancelled - Lecture: Jacolby Satterwhite

Cancellation Notice: Cranbrook Art Museum (and deSalle Auditorium) are closed effective March 13, 2020. All programs including this public lecture have been cancelled during their closure period.

Jacolby Satterwhite was born in 1986 in Columbia, South Carolina. He received his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Arts, Baltimore and his MFA from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. 

 Satterwhite’s work has been presented in numerous exhibitions both in the United States and in Europe, including most recently at Fabric Workshop & Museum, Philadelphia (2019); Pioneer Works, New York (2019); Whitechapel Gallery, London (2019); the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2019); the Minneapolis Institute of Art (2019); the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2018); Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris (2018); New Museum, New York (2017); Public Art Fund, New York (2017); San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco (2017); and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (2017).  

 He was awarded the United States Artist Francie Bishop Good & David Horvitz Fellowship in 2016. His work is included in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others. 

In 2019, Satterwhite collaborated with Solange Knowles on her visual album, “When I Get Home.” 

Sponsored by the Painting Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art. 

All lectures are free and held in deSalle Auditorium at Cranbrook Art Museum.