Acclaimed artist Tavares Strachan will appear on Sept. 24, 2024 at 7 p.m. in conversation with acclaimed interviewer and cultural interlocutor Paul Holdengräber.
Location: Thorne Hall, Occidental College campus
Tavares Strachan's artistic practice activates the intersections of art, science, and politics. Themes of invisibility, displacement, and loss are central to his work, which questions historically canonized narratives that exclude or obscure others. Strachan’s ambitious, open-ended practice has included collaborations with numerous organizations and institutions across the disciplines. Strachan was born in 1979 in Nassau, Bahamas, and currently lives and works between New York City and Nassau. He received a BFA in Glass from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2003 and an MFA in Sculpture from Yale University in 2006. He has exhibited internationally and received numerous awards, including the MacArthur Foundation fellowship (2022).