Tomorrow, please join for this exciting artist talk:
Tuesday, March 12th 2024, 7-8pm
Visiting Artist Lecture Series welcomes sTo Len
Tishman Lecture Hall, OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
SUBversion Country: American Contemporary Art and Performance
Each term, Visual Arts at Bennington offers a thematic series of lectures by visiting arts professionals: artists, curators, historians and critics. VALS centers under-represented queer and BIPOC emerging as well as internationally-renowned practitioners who are invited to introduce the College community to the diversity of contemporary art practices within and beyond the U.S. This term we'll be in particular conversation about what it means to be "American" as an artist and what it means to be "country" in this country at this moment.
sTo Len is a multi-genre, multi-media artist who grew up in Virginia and since 2000 has lived and practiced in New York City. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture from Virginia Commonwealth University and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Hartford. He works in printmaking, sound, installation, video, and performance, which allows him to make work in collaboration with bodies of water, recycled materials, and hold performances at Superfund sites.
In 2022, sTo Len was artist in residence at the Public Artist in Residence Program of the New York Department of Sanitation. Through his residency he got to know the employees of the Department of Sanitation and explored their archives. He has also completed residencies at venues such as the AlexRenew Wastewater Treatment Facility in Alexandria, VA, Open Studio Residency in Manzi, Hanoi, Vietnam, and many more. sTo Len’s work is included in many notable permanent collections at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Special Collections, to name a few. sTo Len has also exhibited their work in solo and group exhibitions, nationally and internationally, notably, in Vietnam, Japan, Canada, and France.
