Lecture: Torkwase Dyson

Join us on April 12, at 6pm for a free public lecture from Torkwase Dyson. This lecture will be presented in person at the deSalle Auditorium and by livestream on the deSalle YouTube channel. A recording will be available following the lecture. Dyson will be conducting studio visits with our Architecture, Print Media, and Painting programs as part of Cranbrook Academy of Art’s Gilbert Visiting Artist program.

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Torkwase Dyson is an interdisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, New York. She describes herself as a painter working across multiple mediums to explore the continuity between ecology, infrastructure, and architecture.

Examining environmental racism as well as the history and future of black spatial liberation strategies, Dyson’s abstract works grapple with the ways in which space is perceived and negotiated, particularly by black and brown bodies. In 2019, Dyson’s solo exhibition I Can Drink the Distance was on view at The Cooper Union, New York, and her work was also presented at the Sharjah Biennial.

In addition to participating in group exhibitions at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington, D.C.; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; and California African American Museum, Los Angeles, Dyson has had solo exhibitions and installations at Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine; Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Chicago; Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education, Philadelphia; and Suzanne Lemberg Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, Vermont.