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Artist Talk: Meleko Mokgosi

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Meleko Mokgosi is an artist, associate professor, and co-director of graduate studies at the Yale School of Art, as well as the co-director of the Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program based in New York City. Mokgosi is renowned for his large-scale, figurative, and often text-based works that engage history painting and cinematic tropes to uncover notions of colonialism, democracy, and liberation across African history. His monumental work, Bread, Butter, and Power, is a central feature of Mia’s current special exhibition, “Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys.”

Please join us for a conversation regarding this work and others with Mokgosi and Casey Riley, Mia’s Chair of Global Contemporary Art, at 2 p.m. on June 1, 2025.

Tickets available May 1. Learn more at artsmia.org.

Meleko Mokgosi is an artist, associate professor, and co-director of graduate studies at the Yale School of Art, as well as the co-director of the Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program based in New York City. Mokgosi is renowned for his large-scale, figurative, and often text-based works that engage history painting and cinematic tropes to uncover notions of colonialism, democracy, and liberation across African history. His monumental work, Bread, Butter, and Power, is a central feature of Mia’s current special exhibition, “Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys.”

Please join us for a conversation regarding this work and others with Mokgosi and Casey Riley, Mia’s Chair of Global Contemporary Art, at 2 p.m. on June 1, 2025.

Tickets available May 1. Learn more at artsmia.org.

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When & Where
Jun 1, 2025, 2:00pm to 3:00pm Timezone: CDT
$10.00


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