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Woodward Lecture Series: Neha Vedpathak in conversation with Chief Curator of the Andy Warhol Museum Aaron Levi Garvey
ABOUT NEHA VEDPATHAK
Indian-born artist Neha Vedpathak employs ‘plucking’ a rigorous, self-invented process to create works that aim to broaden the dialog and understanding of issues related to identity, spirituality, and Social and Gender Politics. Vedpathak’s work are in multiple private and public collections including the Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI; Art in Embassies for US Consulate, Madhya Pradesh State Art Museum, Bhopal, India; Anderson Ranch Arts Center, SnowmassVillage, CO; and Camac Art Centre, Marnay Sur Seine, France. Widely shown in the United States, Europe, India, and Singapore, she has been featured in multiple museums and institutions. Her solo exhibition, Time (Constant, Suspended, Collapsed), opened at the Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI in 2021. Additional exhibitions include the Baker Museum, Naples, FL; Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ; the Weatherspoon Museum, Greensboro, NC; the Poetry Foundation, Chicago, IL; the National Indo-American Museum, Chicago, IL; and the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Arts, Auburn, AL. Vedpathak has received numerous awards and residencies including the Anderson Ranch Art Center, Aspen, CO; the Kresge Foundation Gilda Snowden Award, Detroit, MI; the Fountainhead Residency, Miami, FL; the Skopelos Foundation for the Arts, Greece; and the Camac Artist Residency, Marnay-sur-Seine, France. Vedpathak currently lives and maintains a studio in Detroit.
ABOUT AARON LEVI GARVEY
Aaron Levi Garvey is a Jewish-American Curator/Historian working and lecturing in Modern and Contemporary Arts and Culture. Currently, Garvey is the Chief Curator of the Andy Warhol Museum. Recent exhibitions include: The Hudson Eye a 10-day and 14-venue arts-focused program in Hudson, New York, Arc of Life/Ark of Bones by Walter Hood and Migratory Roots by Kevin Brisco at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University, Flashing the Leather and The Drowned group exhibitions at Alabama Contemporary, Chiharu Shiota’s site-specific installation “Infinity Lines” at the SCAD Museum of Art, Sheida Soleimani “Oppress(er)(ed)” with Long Road Projects, “Ephemera Obscura” at the Contemporary Art Center of New Orleans and Manon Bellet’s “MEMO” and Shikeith’s “notes towards becoming a spill” both at Atlanta Contemporary. Additionally, Garvey curated “We Are What You Eat” the inaugural art exhibition at the United Nations headquarters in New York City in 2016 and co-curated the Atlanta Biennial (ATLBNL): Recent Correspondence at the Atlanta Contemporary in August 2016.
Indian-born artist Neha Vedpathak employs ‘plucking’ a rigorous, self-invented process to create works that aim to broaden the dialog and understanding of issues related to identity, spirituality, and Social and Gender Politics. Vedpathak’s work are in multiple private and public collections including the Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI; Art in Embassies for US Consulate, Madhya Pradesh State Art Museum, Bhopal, India; Anderson Ranch Arts Center, SnowmassVillage, CO; and Camac Art Centre, Marnay Sur Seine, France. Widely shown in the United States, Europe, India, and Singapore, she has been featured in multiple museums and institutions. Her solo exhibition, Time (Constant, Suspended, Collapsed), opened at the Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI in 2021. Additional exhibitions include the Baker Museum, Naples, FL; Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ; the Weatherspoon Museum, Greensboro, NC; the Poetry Foundation, Chicago, IL; the National Indo-American Museum, Chicago, IL; and the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Arts, Auburn, AL. Vedpathak has received numerous awards and residencies including the Anderson Ranch Art Center, Aspen, CO; the Kresge Foundation Gilda Snowden Award, Detroit, MI; the Fountainhead Residency, Miami, FL; the Skopelos Foundation for the Arts, Greece; and the Camac Artist Residency, Marnay-sur-Seine, France. Vedpathak currently lives and maintains a studio in Detroit.
ABOUT AARON LEVI GARVEY
Aaron Levi Garvey is a Jewish-American Curator/Historian working and lecturing in Modern and Contemporary Arts and Culture. Currently, Garvey is the Chief Curator of the Andy Warhol Museum. Recent exhibitions include: The Hudson Eye a 10-day and 14-venue arts-focused program in Hudson, New York, Arc of Life/Ark of Bones by Walter Hood and Migratory Roots by Kevin Brisco at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University, Flashing the Leather and The Drowned group exhibitions at Alabama Contemporary, Chiharu Shiota’s site-specific installation “Infinity Lines” at the SCAD Museum of Art, Sheida Soleimani “Oppress(er)(ed)” with Long Road Projects, “Ephemera Obscura” at the Contemporary Art Center of New Orleans and Manon Bellet’s “MEMO” and Shikeith’s “notes towards becoming a spill” both at Atlanta Contemporary. Additionally, Garvey curated “We Are What You Eat” the inaugural art exhibition at the United Nations headquarters in New York City in 2016 and co-curated the Atlanta Biennial (ATLBNL): Recent Correspondence at the Atlanta Contemporary in August 2016.
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