Artist Talk: Jamal Cyrus

Blaffer Art Museum

Jamal Cyrus delivers an artist talk on the occasion of his career survey exhibition currently on view at Blaffer Art Museum

Dudley Recital Hall

Presented by Blaffer Art Museum and The University Museum at Texas Southern Wednesday, September 16:30pm—8:00pmJoin us at Dudley Recital Hall, across the Fine Arts courtyard from Blaffer Art Museum. This event is free and open to the public. Walk-ins are welcome; space is limited. Please register for guaranteed entry.

Jamal Cyrus (born 1973, Houston, TX) received his BFA from the University of Houston in 2004 and his MFA from the University of Pennsylvania in 2008. Cyrus has won several awards, most recently the Driskell Prize, awarded by the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA (2020). He has participated in numerous national and international exhibitions, including Slowed and Throwed: Records of the City Through Mutated Lenses, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (2020); Front International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art, Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH (2018); Direct Message: Art, Language and Power, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (2019); and The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 – Now, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL (2016). Cyrus was also a member of the artist collective Otabenga Jones and Associates. As a member of the collective, he exhibited at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta (2008); the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, DC (2008); the Menil Collection, Houston (2007); and the 2006 Whitney Biennial. Jamal Cyrus lives and works in Houston, TX.

Learn more about Jamal Cyrus: The End of My Beginning, on view at Blaffer Art Museum through September 26: <a href="https://blafferartmuseum.org/jamal-cyrus/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">blafferartmuseum.org/jamal-cyrus</a>Learn more about Levels &amp; Layers: An Artist’s Reflections on Third Ward, on view at the University Museum through September 19: <a href="https://www.umusetsu.org/levelsandlayers" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">umusetsu.org/levelsandlayers</a>

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