Thursday, September 15, 7pm
The School of Visual Arts Amphitheater
209 East 23rd Street (2nd and 3rd Ave), 3rd Floor
(please bring photo ID for building entry)
Q & A and booksigning to follow the discussion.
Free to CCNY members, SVA students, faculty, and staff
$5 general admission, $3 for other students with ID
Sze Tsung Leong (American and British; born Mexico City, 1970) is an artist based in New York. His work is included in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Deutsche Börse Art Collection, and the Yale University Art Gallery, among others. Leong’s work has been exhibited internationally, including a solo exhibition at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Mexico, An Atlas of Events at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, the 2006 Havana Biennial, New Photography at the High Museum of Art, the 2004 Taipei Biennial, and Painting as Paradox at Artists Space. Leong is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2006, his book History Images was published by Steidl, and his book Horizons will be published in Fall 2011. Leong’s work is represented by Yossi Milo Gallery in New York. Visit his website at www.szetsungleong.com
CCNY‘s lectures are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.
