Denzil Forrester & Sohrab Mohebbi | New York Studio School
Fall 2024 Evening Lecture Series: Denzil Forrester and Sohrab Mohebbi in conversation, recorded on October 29, 2024.
Born in Grenada in 1956, Denzil Forrester moved to London in 1967 and now lives and works in Cornwall, UK. Major solo exhibitions of Forrester’s work have been held at Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri and ICA, Miami, Florida in 2023. He has exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery, London; MCA Chicago, Illinois; Tate Britain, London; and Hayward Gallery, London. His work is included in the collections of ICA, Miami, Florida; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Tate, UK; Arts Council Collection, UK; Government Art Collection, UK; and Long Museum, Shanghai, amongst many others.
Sohrab Mohebbi was appointed Director of SculptureCenter in 2022. Mohebbi has also served as SculptureCenter’s Curator-at-Large (2020-21), and as Curator between 2018 and 2020. Before joining SculptureCenter in 2018, he was associate curator at REDCAT in Los Angeles and curatorial fellow at the Queens Museum. He is an advisor at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam and has organized exhibitions and programs for the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; High Desert Test Sites, Joshua Tree, CA; SALT, Istanbul; and the Center for Historical Reenactments, Johannesburg, South Africa. He received an MA from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College and a BFA in photography from Tehran Art University. Mohebbi has organized solo exhibitions by Banu Cennetoğlu, Fiona Connor, Tishan Hsu, Hassan Khan, John Knight, and Falke Pisano, among others. His group exhibitions include Searching the Sky for Rain (2019), It is obvious from the map (2017; co-curated by Thomas Keenan) and Hotel Theory (2015; with Ruth Estévez), which received The Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award in 2013. In 2012, he was the recipient of a grant from the Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Program for his blog presencedocuments.
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