Featuring Chase Hall in conversation with Sayantan Mukhopadhyay, Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art
Photo: Clement Pascal
Multidisciplinary artist Chase Hall explores race, identity, and history through narratives of power, earning him recognition as an essential voice in American contemporary art today. His distinctive paintings, using unprimed cotton canvas and coffee stains, reflect his mixed-race experience in America, blending symbolism and storytelling. Hall has completed residencies at Skowhegan and MASS MoCA and had his first museum solo exhibition at the SCAD Museum of Art in 2023.
This program is presented in conjunction with Painting Energy: Gifts from the Alex Katz Foundation at the Portland Museum of Art.
Chase Hall (b. 1993, St. Paul, Minnesota) documents the ever-shifting lines between personal and generational narratives. Often rooted in autobiographical experience, his explorations of overarching systems of power result in works with both expansive historical sweep and intimate, of-the-moment connection. Recently, Hall was the subject of a solo exhibition at the SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia in 2023, and in 2022, he was commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera to produce a large-scale artwork, the monumental diptych Medea Act I & II. His work is in the permanent collections of several institutions, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and many more.
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This program is generously made possible by the Leonard and Merle Nelson Social Justice Fund at the Portland Museum of Art.
The purpose of the Leonard and Merle Nelson Social Justice Fund is to honor those artists whose commitment to social justice is manifested in their work and lives. The fund supports exhibitions, lectures, scholarships, programs, or acquisitions that directly or indirectly address the relationship between works of art and social justice.
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