UCLA New Wight Gallery

About the Wight Biennial

Founded in 1997 by professor and artist Mary Kelly, then chair of the UCLA Department of Art, the Wight Biennial is curated and produced by a committee of graduate students in the art department, often in collaboration with students from other departments. The objective of the show is to exhibit this specific group of emerging artists as well as foster an investigative exchange between graduate programs at UCLA and other institutions.

Wight Biennial 2008 Curatorial Committee:
Jennifer Gradecki, Matthias Merkel-Hess, Alexandro Segade, Wu Ingrid Tsang.

Artists

Mayen Alcantara / Yuka Otani Rhode Island School of Design Providence	Ian Arenas / Justin Long California Institute of the Arts Valencia	Jennifer Bastian University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Michael Bizon / Rosalind Murray Rhode Island School of Design Providence	Kristin Botshekan / Maya Lujan University of Southern California Los Angeles	A.K. Burns Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Leidy Churchman Columbia University New York	Mariechen Danz / Alvaro Guillen California Institute of the Arts Valencia	Dept of Ecological Authoring Tactics University of Bologna Italy
The Parallel Action Leander Djønne / Anders Dahl Monsen Malmö Art Academy, Lund University Sweden	Isil Egrikavuk School of the Art Institute of Chicago	Fine Art Union directed by Synnove G. Wetten and Annette Stav Johanssen Malmö Art Academy, Lund University Sweden
Kate Hers University of California Irvine	Szu-Han Ho / Steffani Jemison School of the Art Institute of Chicago	Arendse Krabbe / Nina Wengel Goldsmiths College, London / The Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen
Daniel Lavitt / Becky Snodgrass School of the Art Institute of Chicago	Chuck Miller University of California San Diego	Raphael Taylor / Austin Willis Hunter College New York

This exhibition was made possible with generous support from Dallas Price-Van Breda and the UCLA Art Council.

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