Conference Series│Kerry James Marshall│Introductive session : A Conversation with the Artist Conférence
1h30
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- Personnes à mobilité réduite
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- *subject to availability
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- Salle Matisse – 3rd Floor
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Friday 18 September 2026 from 16h00 to 17h30
This talk introduces Kerry James Marshall’s work in connection with the exhibition Held on the day of the public opening, this conversation between the artist and the curators of the show, Mark Godfrey and Fabrice Hergott, explores Marshall’s career, the conception of the show, the significance of its title, and Marshall’s relationship with French painting.
with Kerry James Marshall, Mark Godfrey
moderated by Fabrice Hergott
Salle Matisse
Free admission, registration required, subject to availability
Biographies
Kerry James Marshall
Engaged in an ongoing dialogue with six centuries of representational painting, Kerry James Marshall (b. 1955) is known for his expansive body of work, which also includes drawings and sculptures. At the center of his oeuvre is the critical recognition of the conditions of invisibility long ascribed to Black figures in the Western pictorial tradition, and the creation of what he calls a "counter-archive" that brings them back into this narrative. Marshall was born in Birmingham, Alabama. He received his BFA from the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles in 1978, where he was later awarded an honorary doctorate in 1999. The exhibition Kerry James Marshall: The Histories, presented at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, is the largest survey of the artist's work in France.
Mark Godfrey
Curator of Kerry James Marshall: The Histories and a co-director of New Curators, he was Lecturer in History and Theory of Art at the Slade School of Fine Art from 2002–7. From 2007–21 Mark was Senior Curator at Tate Modern where he worked on several major exhibitions and acquisitions. Curated and co-curated projects include Roni Horn AKA Roni Horn, 2009; Gerhard Richter: Panorama, 2011–12; Soul of a Nation, 2017 and Olafur Eliasson: In real life, 2019–20. He has published widely on contemporary art in journals and catalogues, and co-edited The Soul of a Nation Reader. Outside Tate he has curated exhibitions by Nicole Eisenman, David Hammons, R.H. Quaytman, Christopher Williams, Laura Owens and Jacqueline Humphries.
Fabrice Hergott
Director of the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris since 2007, he was previously a curator at the Musée National d’Art moderne Georges Pompidou from 1985-2000, and then director of the museums of the City of Strasbourg until 2006. Since taking office in 2007, he has maintained a policy of high-quality exhibitions of both modern and contemporary art. These have included major thematic and monographic projects, offering historical retrospectives of internationally renowned artists, such as American artists Kara Walker, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Christopher Wool and George Condo, as well as exhibitions of lesser-known artists in France.