The MassArt Graduate Programs and MFA Fine Arts Low-Residency are thrilled to welcome Gabo Camnitzer as a guest speaker of the MFA Summer 2025 Lecture Series. Camnitzer will present a visiting artist talk in the Design and Media Center Lecture Hall on Thursday, July 10 at 12:00pm.

Gabo Camnitzer is an artist and educator working across experimental pedagogy, installation, and video. Camnitzer’s work revolves around questions of education and knowledge exchange, often focusing on childhood to examine the societal structures that surround and shape subjectivity. Camnitzer is Associate Professor of Art Education and Director of the Saturday Studios Program for children at Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, Massachusetts. He has previously held teaching positions at UMass Dartmouth, Columbia University, Valand Academy, Sweden, as well as public elementary schools in New York City. He has presented projects at venues such as Creative Time, New York, Pivô, São Paulo; PPOW, New York; Queens Museum, New York; Konsthall C, Stockholm; Momentum Biennale, Moss, Norway; Hacer Noche, Oaxaca; Kunstsaele, Berlin; GfZK, Leipzig; Artists Space, New York; Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm; Gertrude Contemporary Art Center, Melbourne; Museo Blanes, Montevideo, Uruguay. He received his MFA from Valand Academy, Gothenburg, Sweden, and attended the Whitney Independent Study Program, New York, USA. He sits on the editorial board of the Swedish Art Journal, Paletten. 

Questions? Contact gradprogram@massart.edu.

This event is free and open to public.

Image: Gabo Camnitzer, Olha o capeta, Video still, 2024