The Department of Sculpture + Extended Media presents a visiting artist lecture by
Kenneth Tam
Tuesday, February 25th at 2 PM
Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University
601 W Broad St, Richmond, VA 23220
Kenneth Tam is an artist based in Houston, TX and Queens, NY. Tam received his B.F.A. from The Cooper Union and his M.F.A. in 2010.
Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Tam uses video, sculpture, installation, movement, performance, and photography to examine themes including the performance of masculinity, the transformative potential of ritual, and expressions of intimacy within groups. Tam often implicates the male body in his projects, using humor and pathos to reveal the performative and unstable nature of identity, and often creates situations that foreground tenderness and vulnerability within unlikely settings.
Tam has had solo exhibitions at institutions such as Tufts University Art Gallery, MA; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), CA; Ballroom Marfa, TX; ICA LA, CA; Queens Museum, NY; The Kitchen, NY; and MIT List Center for Visual Arts, MA. He is a recipient of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts grants to artists in 2023, and his work is in the collections of The Guggenheim, LACMA, The Hammer Museum, and other institutions. He will have a solo exhibition at Bridget Donahue Gallery, NY in January.
Tam is currently an Assistant Professor at Rice University, and faculty at The Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College. He is represented by Commonwealth and Council in Los Angeles.
