Announcing participating artists, artists-in-residence and presenting partners

Press and Professional Preview Days
July 12 – 13, 2018 Cleveland, Ohio

Led by FRONT’s Artistic Director Michelle Grabner, this multi-part presentation will investigate the significance and meaning of staging a large-scale international triennial in the contemporary context. Bringing together more than 55 local, national and international artists across mediums and disciplines, FRONT will partner with sites throughout the city of Cleveland and beyond to explore artistic collaborations, intellectual exchanges and curatorial dialogues connecting the city and the Great Lakes region to broader global, political and economic networks. FRONT’s ambitious program will weave critical approaches to museum exhibitions, public and educational programs, residencies, publications and research strategies in a complex presentation.

FRONT will collaborate with cultural institutions and site-specific locations in Cleveland, foregrounding meaningful partnerships within the city’s cultural fabric and urban history to present focused projects, oscillating between large-scale commissions and exhibitions by recognized artists and emerging practitioners. Grabner will develop these exhibitions in close collaboration with the institutions’ respective curators.

“As an experimental program of exhibitions, residencies and public events, FRONT investigates what it means to stage a large-scale international biennial or triennial today, looking carefully at the feasibility, necessity and structures of large art events, proposing alternatives and reprioritizing typical exhibition hierarchies,” says FRONT’s Executive Director, Fred Bidwell. “Simultaneously, it aims to ameliorate the often-lacking relationship between an event’s local and regional art scene and global artistic discourses.”

“An American City considers the complex transformations that Cleveland, Ohio, a medium-size city in the center of the country, has undergone in recent decades,” says FRONT’s Artistic Director Michelle Grabner. “It will take the city’s ongoing search for a clearer and more definitive identity as a platform to examine how its particular history might parallel those of other cities in the United States and around the world. Treating Cleveland as both a model of urban development and a physical site, the programs will elucidate the ways in which contemporary experiences of urban development are shaped by historical and current events, and how a city’s collective memory and sociopolitical imperatives can define its artistic and curatorial production.”

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS & ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE AS OF DECEMBER 5, 2017

Asian Dope Boys (Beijing, China)

Nasser Al-Salem (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia)

Eric Baudelaire (Paris, France)

Dawoud Bey (Chicago, USA)

Barbara Bloom (New York, USA)

Candice Breitz (Berlin, Germany)

Nicholas Buffon (New York, USA)

A.K. Burns (New York, USA)*

Gerard Byrne (Dublin, IRE)

Johnny Coleman (Oberlin, USA)*

Sean Connelly (Honolulu, USA)*

Sarah Crowner (Los Angeles, USA)

Marlon de Azambuja (Madrid, Spain)

Casey Jane Ellison (Los Angeles, USA)

Elizabeth Emery (Cleveland, USA)*

djulie Ezelle-Patton (Cleveland, USA)*

Harrell Fletcher (Portland, USA)*

Claire Fontaine (Paris, France)

Simon Fujiwara (Berlin, Germany)

Cyprien Gaillard (Berlin, Germany)

Dani Gal (Tel Aviv, Israel)

Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster (Paris, France)

Dale Goode (Cleveland, USA)*

Maryam Jafri (Copenhagen, Denmark/New York, USA)

Cui Jie (Beijing, China)

Hao Jing Ban (Beijing, China)

Li Jinghu (Dongguan, China)

William E. Jones (Los Angeles, USA)

Alex Jovanovich (New York, USA)

Lin Ke (Beijing, China)*

Mike Kelley [deceased]

Luisa Lambri (Milan, Italy)

Guillaume Leblon (Paris, France/New York, USA)*

Laura Huertes Millán (Bogotá, Colombia)

Ad Minoliti (Buenos Aires, Argentina)

Sarah Morris (New York, USA)

Michael Oatman (Cleveland, USA)*

Kirsten Pieroth (Berlin, Germany)

Michael Rakowitz (Chicago, USA)

Cheng Ran (Beijing, China)

Jennifer Reeder (Chicago, USA)

John Riepenhoff (Milwaukee, USA)*

Kay Rosen (New York, USA)

Allen Ruppersberg (Los Angeles/New York, USA)

Tino Sehgal (Berlin, Germany)

Indre Šerpytytė (London, United Kingdom)*

Yinka Shonibare, MBE (RA) (London, United Kingdom)

Katrín Sigurdardóttir (New York, USA)

Cally Spooner (London, United Kingdom)*

Julian Stanczak [deceased]

Martine Syms (Los Angeles, USA)

Zhou Tao (Guangzhou, China)

Jim Trainor (New York, USA)

Philip Vanderhyden (New York, USA)

Jan Van der Ploeg (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Visible Collective (2001-2007) (New York, USA)

Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Búrca (São Paolo, Brazil)

Lauren Yeager (Cleveland, USA)*

Geographic references indicate locations where artists currently live and work.

* Indicates artists selected to participate in FRONT’s Artist-in- Residence program, The Madison Residencies-with support from Cleveland Foundation’s Creative Fusion program-will take place at the newly developed Glenville Arts Campus on the East side of Cleveland. The Madison Residency program will include international, national and local artists.

PARTICIPATING INSTITUTIONS AND CURATORIAL CORRESPONDENTS

Presenting partners and venues include:

Akron Art Museum Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College Canvas City Murals, Downtown Cleveland Cleveland Clinic Cleveland Institute of Art Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland Public Library Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland Hingetown, Ohio City, Cleveland The Madison, Glenville Arts Campus MOCA Cleveland SPACES St. John’s Church, Ohio City, Cleveland Steamship William G. Mather, Great Lakes Science Center Transformer Station Weltzheimer/Johnson Usonian House, Oberlin College West Side Market and Ohio City Farm

The Triennial has further formed a consortium of international Curatorial Correspondents to provide feedback and discussion from a global perspective, bringing social and political concerns from their respective regions to reflect on parallel situations in the United States and Cleveland. Each Curatorial Correspondent will be invited to Cleveland to conduct research and develop public programs.

Curatorial Correspondents to provide feedback and discussion from a global perspective, bringing social and political concerns from their respective regions to reflect on parallel situations in the United States and Cleveland. Each Curatorial Correspondent will be invited to Cleveland to conduct research and develop public programs.

The Curatorial Correspondents include Defne Ayas (Rotterdam), Diana Betancourt (Manila), Rose Bouthillier (Saskatoon), Fernanda Brenner (São Paulo), Reem Fadda (Jerusalem), Snejana Krasteva (Moscow), Carol Yinghua Lu (Beijing), Piper Marshall (New York), Suzana Sousa (Luanda) and Chen Tamir (Tel Aviv).

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