Exhibitions Organized by CCA Wattis Institute Tour North America 2005–6
San Francisco, October 25, 2005
Exhibitions organized by the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts at California College of the Arts are traveling throughout North America and making an impact on contemporary art. The CCA Wattis Institute and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, have coorganized an exhibition by prominent Swiss artist Thomas Hirschhorn titled "Utopia, Utopia = One World, One War, One Army, One Dress." It is on view in Boston through January 16, 2006, and will open in the Logan Galleries at the CCA San Francisco campus in March 2006. "Irreducible: Contemporary Short Form Video" was on view this summer at Miami Art Central and travels next to the Bronx Museum of the Arts, where it runs from October 26, 2005, through February 2006. "Monuments for the USA" will be presented at White Columns in New York from December 15, 2005, through January 28, 2006. "Likeness: Portraits of Artists by Other Artists" opened in August 2005 at the University Art Museum at California State University, Long Beach, and runs through October 30. In 2006 "Likeness" will travel to galleries in Calgary and Virginia Beach. The CCA Wattis Institute has produced accompanying exhibition catalogs for all of the traveling shows.
Ralph Rugoff, director of the CCA Wattis Institute, said, "As large museums in the United States increasingly focus on producing blockbuster shows, the task of developing truly innovative and challenging projects has been taken up by smaller, more responsive institutions like the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts. Occupying a strategic niche between artist-run spaces and museums, the Wattis Institute operates as a cultural test site or aesthetic think tank, where artists and visitors alike can experiment with new ideas about relationships between art, society, popular culture and everyday life."
Established in 1998, the CCA Wattis Institute serves as a forum for the presentation and discussion of leading-edge local, national and international contemporary culture. Through exhibitions, the Capp Street Project residency program, lectures, symposia, performances and publications in the fields of art, architecture and design, the CCA Wattis Institute fosters interaction among the students and faculty of California College of the Arts; art, architecture and design professionals; and the general public.
About California College of the Arts
Founded in 1907, California College of the Arts (formerly California College of Arts and Crafts) is the largest regionally accredited, independent school of art and design in the western United States. Noted for the interdisciplinary nature and breadth of its programs, CCA offers studies in 19 undergraduate and 6 graduate majors in the areas of fine arts, architecture, design and writing. The college offers the bachelor of fine arts, bachelor of arts, bachelor of architecture, master of fine arts, master of arts and master of architecture degrees. With campuses in Oakland and San Francisco, CCA currently enrolls 1,600 full-time students.
The CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts Traveling Exhibitions
Thomas Hirschhorn: "Utopia, Utopia = One World, One War, One Army, One Dress"
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Mass.
September 21, 2005–January 16, 2006
CCA Wattis Institute, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, Calif.
March 9–May 13, 2006
"Irreducible: Contemporary Short Form Video"
CCA Wattis Institute, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, Calif.
January 19–March 19, 2005
Miami Art Central, Miami, Fla.
June 24–September 11, 2005
Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, N.Y.
October 26, 2005–February 2006
"Monuments for the USA"
CCA Wattis Institute, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, Calif.
April 7–May 15, 2005
White Columns, New York, N.Y.
December 15, 2005–January 28, 2006
"Likeness: Portraits of Artists by Other Artists"
CCA Wattis Institute, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, Calif.
February 28–May 8, 2004
McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, N.C.
September 3–November 6, 2004
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Mass.
January 19–May 1, 2005
Dalhousie University Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
May 26–July 31, 2005
University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, Calif.
August 30–October 30, 2005
Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art & Design, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
January 12–February 26, 2006
Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, Va.
March 23–May 12, 2006
Monuments for the USA
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