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SUMMARY:Lecture: Derek Fordjour
DESCRIPTION:Derek Fordjour \nJoin us on November 2\, 2022\, at 6pm for a free\, public lecture from Visiting Artist\, Derek Fordjour. Please enter the deSalle auditorium through the Cranbrook Academy of Art library entrance. The Cranbrook Art Museum galleries will be closed. \nDerek Fordjour was born in Memphis\, Tennessee to parents of Ghanaian heritage. He was awarded 2016 Sugarhill Museum Artist-in-Residence\, the 2017 Sharpe Walentas Studio Program in New York City\, and named the 2018 Deutsche Bank NYFA Fellowship Award. He is a graduate of Morehouse College in Atlanta Georgia\, earned a Master’s Degree in Art Education from Harvard University and an MFA in painting from Hunter College. His work has been reviewed in The New York Times\, Financial Times\, The Los Angeles Times\, and Hyperallergic. He has also been featured in several publications such as The Wall Street Journal\, Juxtapoz\, Vanity Fair and Forbes Magazine. He was appointed The Alex Katz Chair at Cooper Union and served as a Core Critic at Yale University School of Art. In 2018\, he was awarded commissions for the Whitney Museum of American Art Billboard Project and the Metropolitan Transit Authority Arts & Design program. Recently\, he was the inaugural artist for the Building Art Series on the façade of MOCA Grand Avenue in Los Angeles. His work is held in the private and public collections of The Studio Museum of Harlem\, Guggenheim Museum\, Metropolitan Museum of Art\, SFMOMA\, Brooklyn Museum\, Perez Museum\, The Whitney Museum and LACMA. Fordjour is the founder of Contemporary Arts Memphis Summer Fellowship program
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