Reflecting on the phenomenon of the “art star” versus the “art hero”, artists Mike Cloud and Oscar Murillo consider the artist’s role within contemporary society, and the conditions for success and survival in their individual practices.

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This event presented within the context of the exhibition ‘Mike Cloud: The Myth of Education’ at the Logan Center Gallery

ABOUT THE PRESENTERS

Mike Cloud is a New York based painter whose work examines the conditions of painting in its contemporary life among countless reproductions, symbols and descriptions. Cloud earned his MFA from Yale University School of Art and a BFA from the University of Illinois-Chicago. A selection of exhibitions include: ‘Special Project: Mike Cloud’ at P.S.1, NY; ‘Agreement and Subjectivity’ at Max Protetch, NY; ‘Jesse Chapman/ Mike Cloud’ at Marianne Boesky Gallery, NY and ‘Bad Faith and Universal Technique’ at Thomas Erben Gallery, NY. His work has been included in group exhibitions such as ‘Frequency’ at the Studio Museum in Harlem, NY; at Apexart, NY and Honor Fraser Gallery, CA. Cloud’s works and writing have been featured in the New York Times, Art in America, Art Review and in the painting survey Painting Abstraction by Bob Nickas, published by Phaidon Press. He has been awarded the inaugural Chiaro Award from the Headlands Center for the Arts, CA; a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship and residencies at the Meulensteen Art Centre in the Netherlands as well as the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program in New York. Cloud has lectured extensively on his work and issues of contemporary art theory at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, NJ; The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, MA; Yale University, CT; Cooper Union, NY; Bard College, NY and The University of Illinois- Chicago, IL, among others. He is currently an assistant professor at Brooklyn College/ CUNY in New York.

Oscar Murillo was born in 1986 in La Paila, Colombia, and lives and works in various locations. Murillo earned a BA (Hons) in Fine Arts at the University of Westminster in 2007 and an MA from the Royal College of Art, London, in 2012. Murillo’s solo exhibitions include Haus der Kunst, Munich (2017–18); CAPC Bordeaux (2017); Jeu de Paume, Paris (2017); Yarat Contemporary Art Centre, Baku (2016–17); Museo de Arte de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá (2015); Centro Cultural Daoíz y Velarde, Madrid (2015); Performa 2015, New York (2015); Artpace San Antonio (2015); The Mistake Room, Los Angeles (2014); and South London Gallery (2013). The artist has also participated in numerous international group exhibitions and biennials, including the Sharjah Biennial 13 (2017) and the 56th Venice Biennale (2015). Murillo is represented by Carlos/Ishikawa (London), Isabella Bortolozzi Galerie (Berlin), and David Zwirner (London, New York, Hong Kong).

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