Visiting Artist Lecture: Christopher Sperandio-Comic Artist
Event Actions
Christopher Sperandio’s works map the numerous margins between mass and museum cultures, taking a variety of forms including comics and books, games, temporary sculptures, painted installations, television, billboards and digital media, all usually featuring a public involvement component, in the form of open calls, canvassing, or workshops.
These works have been the subjects of exhibitions in museums and art centers in the United States, Germany, Northern Ireland, Denmark, England, Scotland, Wales, Spain, and France. Commissioning institutions include: MoMA/PS1, the Public Art Fund, Creative Time, London’s Institute of Contemporary Art, Project Row Houses, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, Wired Magazine and DC Comics. A pioneer of Social Practice, Sperandio and is collaborative partner, Simon Grennan, participated in two landmark exhibitions: Culture in Action, curated by Mary Jane Jacob, and Nicolas Bourriaud’s Traffic.
Speaker Bio
Christopher Sperandio
Christopher Sperandio’s works map the numerous margins between mass and museum cultures, taking a variety of forms including comics and books, games, temporary sculptures, painted installations, television, billboards and digital media, all usually featuring a public involvement component, in the form of open calls, canvassing, or workshops.
These works have been the subjects of exhibitions in museums and art centers in the United States, Germany, Northern Ireland, Denmark, England, Scotland, Wales, Spain, and France. Commissioning institutions include: MoMA/PS1, the Public Art Fund, Creative Time, London’s Institute of Contemporary Art, Project Row Houses, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, Wired Magazine and DC Comics. A pioneer of Social Practice, Sperandio and is collaborative partner, Simon Grennan, participated in two landmark exhibitions: Culture in Action, curated by Mary Jane Jacob, and Nicolas Bourriaud’s Traffic.
Essays about Sperandio’s collaborative work appear in numerous survey books especially concerning relational, social and collaborative art. Articles have also appeared in the New York Times, Art In America, Artforum, Frieze, Flash Art, Sculpture Magazine, The New Yorker, ArtReview, Art Papers, Soap Opera Weekly and others. Sperandio was Creator and an Executive Producer of the television series ARTSTAR.
At Rice University, he’s an Associate Professor and Director of the Comic Art Teaching and Study Workshop, a hybrid learning and research space, online at cats.rice.edu