Study Visit of Artist Asad Raza at IZOLYATSIA Residency
30 May 2018 — 8 June 2018
On June 2–7, 2018, US-based artist, curator and writer Asad Raza will have a study visit at IZOLYATSIA artist residency.
Asad Raza is an American artist who lives and works in New York, NY. Asad studied Literature at Johns Hopkins University from 1992 to 1996 and Filmmaking at the Tisch School of Arts in 1993. He also studied Literature at NYU, where he participated in the organization of the 2005 graduate student strike. From 2005 to 2010, Raza used to write about tennis and art in various magazines and newspapers. Asad Raza's practices encompasses artistic projects, collaborations, curatorial work; and he is described as "one of the most interesting crossroads figures of American contemporary art stage”. Raza’s works often respond to a particular environment in a site-specific manner. For instance, in Root Sequence, Mother Tongue, created for the 2017 Whitney Biennial, trees in boxes were brought into the museum. Another example is his piece Untitled (Plot for Dialogue). For that work, Raza installed a tennis court inside the 16th century church of San Paolo Converso in Milan.
During his study visit, Asad will visit a number of Ukrainian art institutions gathering ideas for his future project.