Conrad Bakker,
2018
Conrad Bakker makes carved/painted sculptures and paintings of everyday objects and places them in consumer contexts and/or gallery exhibitions to reveal and critically comment upon the political economies and relational networks between persons and things. Bakker has exhibited his work internationally in venues that include Tate Modern (London), Galerie Analix Forever (Geneva), Fargfabriken Center for Contemporary Art and Architecture (Stockholm), the New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York), the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago (Chicago), the Contemporary Art Museum Houston, Art in General, Artists’ Space, and Apex Art (New York City), and in mailboxes, ebay auctions, and on his front lawn. His work has been the subject of articles and reviews in Frieze, Contemporary, Flash Art, Art Forum, Art World Magazine, ArtUS, Art Papers, Sculpture, UOVO, The Chicago Tribune, The New York Times, and The New Yorker magazine. Bakker has been awarded individual artist grants from the Creative Capital Foundation, The Illinois Arts Council, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant Program. Recent projects include: Untitled Project: The Crystal Land for Station Independent Projects (New York City). Salt 10: Conrad Bakker, Untitled Project: Robert Smithson Library & Book Club for the Utah Museum of Fine Arts (Salt Lake City). Untitled Project: Still Life / Style Leaf at Devening Projects (Chicago), and Untitled Project: Cabin [Thoreau] for La Littorale #6 Internationale Biennale D'Art Contemporain, Anglet Côte-Basque (France). Conrad Bakker lives and works in Urbana, IL where he teaches at the University of Illinois and directs the MFA Studio program.
Adam McEwen,
2018
Adam McEwen was born in London in 1965 and lives and works in New York. He received his BA from Christ Church, Oxford in 1987 and graduated from California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA in 1991. Recent exhibitions have taken place at: Aspen Art Museum, Aspen (2017); de la Cruz Collection, Miami; MoMA PS1, New York (both 2016); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Museo Civico Diocesano di Santa Maria dei Servi, Città della Pieve, Italy; Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris (all 2015); Winter Palace and 21er Haus, Vienna, Austria (2014); and the Goss-Michael Foundation, Dallas (2012).
Abraham Cruzvillegas,
2017
Abraham Cruzvillegas (b. 1968) is one of the most important conceptual artists of his generation to come out of the vibrant art and architecture scene in Mexico developing work inspired by the improvised building materials of Latin America. For the 2017 CAB Cruzvillegas will speak about a new international series, The Water Trilogy.
