Gallery Talk with Laura Steward Heon, Director of SITE Santa Fe September 21, 2007

Gallery Talk with Laura Steward Heon: Friday, September 21, 5:30pm

Laura Steward Heon is the Director/Curator of SITE Santa Fe, a non-profit contemporary art space located in Santa Fe, New Mexico, known nationally and internationally for its biennial exhibitions, as well as its contemporary art programming. Appointed to the position in April 2005, she came to SITE from MASS MoCA, one of the world’s largest centers for contemporary visual and performing arts, where she was the founding curator. Her exhibitions have received several important awards, including an AICA prize for best installation for Ann Hamilton: corpus and a New England AICA for Cai Guo-Qiang: Innopportune.

Steward Heon will discuss the work in Ghosts in the Machine, an exhibition of internationally renowned video artists presented with SITE Santa Fe on both floors of 516 ARTS in Downtown Albuquerque. In the spirit of inter-city collaboration, SITE Santa Fe and 516 ARTS are working together to build our mutual audiences and showcase our region as a center for contemporary art. The exhibition is curated by SITE Santa Fe and features the work of James Blake (UK), Johanna Domke (Germany), Isaac Julien (UK), Ana Mendieta (Cuba), Hiraki Sawa (Japan) and Eve Sussman (US).

Official Website: http://www.516arts.org