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Roski Talks: Mary Kelly at MOCA

April 22, 2025 | 6 - 7:30 pm

MOCA Grand Avenue

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Join Mary Kelly in collaboration with the USC Roski School, presenting Roski Talks, a lecture series offering engaging presentations from leading visual artists, design innovators, scholars, performance artists, architects, and other influential figures throughout the academic year. Held in an intimate setting, Roski Talks encourage audience participation and open dialogue. Each session concludes with lively group discussions and Q&A opportunities.

Mary Kelly addresses questions of sexuality, identity and historical memory in the form of large-scale installations.  Her exhibitions include retrospectives at Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester and Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw as well as international surveys such as the Whitney Biennial, the Biennale of Sydney and Documenta 12. Her publications include Post-Partum Document, (1983), Imaging Desire, (1996), Rereading Post-Partum Document, (1999), and Mary Kelly’s Concentric Pedagogy, (2024).  She is the recipient of the Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship as well as Honorary Doctorates from Lund University and Helsinki University of the Arts. Currently, she is Judge Widney Professor at the Roski School of Art and Design, University of Southern California.

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