Cathy Wilkes
July 22, 2018, through September 16, 2018
Opening reception: Saturday, July 21, 2018, from 4–6 PM
Glasgow-based artist Cathy Wilkes makes her first solo exhibition on the West Coast. It will consist primarily of new work commissioned by Yale Union and will include loans from private collections in San Francisco and Vancouver B.C. Wilkes will create a site-specific installation of sculptural objects that she has both crafted by hand and appropriated from everyday life.
Auxiliary programming for the exhibition will include a talk by critic and art historian Joanna Fiduccia in August (date to be announced), and a program for elementary school-aged children in collaboration with the Portland-based King School Museum of Contemporary Art.
Cathy Wilkes was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1966 and graduated from the Glasgow School of Art in 1988. She has had solo museum exhibitions at Tramway, Glasgow; Cubitt Gallery, London; SMAK, Ghent; Migros Museum of Contemporary Art, Zurich; Renaissance Society, Chicago; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Tate Liverpool; Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach; and MoMA P.S.1, New York. In 2008, she was nominated for the Turner Prize (UK), and in 2017, she was awarded the inaugural Maria Lassnig Prize (US). In 2018, she was selected to represent Great Britain in the 58th Venice Biennale.
Yale Union acknowledges financial support from Culture Ireland for this exhibition. We also wish to thank The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd., Xavier Hufkens, The Rennie Collection, and Private Collection.