Maria Gaspar | Visiting Artist Lecture Series

Maria Gaspar is an interdisciplinary artist whose work addresses issues of spatial justice in order to amplify, mobilize, or divert structures of power through individual and collective gestures. Gaspar’s projects have been supported by the Art for Justice Fund, the Robert Rauschenberg Artist as Activist Fellowship, the Creative Capital Award, among others. Gaspar has lectured and exhibited extensively at venues including the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; the African American Museum, Philadelphia; and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. She is assistant professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and holds an M.F.A. in studio arts from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a B.F.A. from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York.

Presented as part of the Visiting Artist Lecture Series in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ School of Art. The lecture is available to the public via livestream on the Syracuse University Art Museum YouTube channel.