Gallery Sessions: Connie Zheng
Installation view, "What are words worth?," McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco (June 16–September 2, 2023). Photo by Henrik Kam.
Talk
Multidisciplinary
The Back Room and McEvoy Foundation for the Arts present Gallery Sessions: Connie Zheng. Multidisciplinary artist, writer, and experimental filmmaker Connie Zheng joins McEvoy Arts exhibitions and public programs curator Amanda Nudelman for a free, informal conversation in conjunction with What are words worth?, McEvoy Arts’ exhibition on the written and spoken word. On view June 16-September 2, 2023.
In fall 2023, The Back Room will publish writing by Zheng, commissioned in partnership with McEvoy Arts and in conversation with What are words worth?, expanding both organizations’ interest in fostering intertextual conversations.
This event is free and open to the public.
WHEN
Saturday, August 26, 2023
3:00 pm
WHERE
McEvoy Foundation for the Arts
1150 25th Street, Building B
San Francisco, CA 94107
NOTES ON ACCESsIBILITY
Please see McEvoy Foundation for the Arts' website for complete accessibility information.
Connie Zheng
Connie Zheng is a Chinese-born artist, writer, and experimental filmmaker based out of Oakland. Her works investigate relationships between human and more-than-human worlds. Zheng’s projects have been exhibited and screened at the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, California; the Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco; Framer Framed, Netherlands; and Salt Beyoğlu, Turkey. SFMOMA’s Open Space, Errant Journal, and the Routledge Companion to Contemporary Art, Visual Culture, and Climate Change have published her writing. She is a PhD student in Visual Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Photo: Jenna Garrett
