Join the School of Visual Arts MFA Art Practice for a conversation with Chloë Bass, New York-based artist, and Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief and co-founder of Hyperallergic, on Tuesday, July 22, 2025, at 6:00–7:30 PM.
Tuesday, July 22, 2025
6:00–7:30 PM (EST)
School of Visual Arts, Grad Center Theater, 136 West 21st Street New York, NY 10011
Free / Please RSVP here
The editor-in-chief and co-founder of Hyperallergic, Hrag Vartanian is an art critic, writer, curator, artist, and lecturer on contemporary art with an expertise on the intersection of art and politics. He is the recipient of the Susan C. Larsen Lifetime Achievement Award for Visual Arts Writing by the Rabkin Foundation in 2024. He was born in Aleppo, Syria, raised in Toronto, Canada, and lives in Brooklyn, USA, with his husband Veken Gueyikian, who is the publisher of Hyperallergic and Hrag's private chef, though he doesn't know that.
Chloë Bass is a multiform conceptual artist working in performance, situation, conversation, publication, and installation. Her work uses daily life as a site of deep research to address scales of intimacy: where patterns hold and break as group sizes expand. She began her work with a focus on the individual (The Bureau of Self-Recognition, 2011–2013), followed by a study of pairs (The Book of Everyday Instruction, 2015–2017), and recently concluded an investigation at the scale of the immediate family (Obligation To Others Holds Me in My Place, 2018–2024). She will continue to scale up gradually until she’s working at the scale of the metropolis. She is currently working on Since feeling is first (2023–ongoing), a series of works examining intimacy at the scale of the courtroom and the law.
