Oct 3–11, 2026 My Plan
Portrait of Carmen Winant

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FotoFocusSpeaker · Artist

Carmen Winant

Artist and Roy Lichtenstein Chair of Studio Art at the Ohio State University

Columbus, OH

Carmen Winant is an artist and the Roy Lichtenstein Chair of Studio Art at the Ohio State University. Her work utilizes archival and authored photographs to examine feminist care networks, with particular emphasis on intergenerational, multiracial, and sometimes transnational coalition building. Winant’s recent projects have been shown at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej, Warsaw, Poland; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; the Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN; SculptureCenter, Queens NY; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; the Cleveland Museum of Art, OH; and el Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico. Winant’s artist’s books include My Birth (2018), Notes on Fundamental Joy (2019), Instructional Photography: Learning How To Live Now (2021), Arrangements (2022), A Brand New End: Survival and Its Pictures (2022), and The Last Safe Abortion (2024). Winant is a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow in photography, a 2020 Foundation of Contemporary Arts Artist Honoree, and a 2021 American Academy of Arts and Letters award recipient. She is also a community organizer, prison educator, and mother. (Photo Credit: Jordan Weitzman)

Events · 2

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FotoFocusKeynote

Artist Talks and Keynote Lecture

Memorial Hall

Lindsay Albert, Joshua Berg and 8 more

Opening Program · biennial program · performance

Details

Noon Light Bites

1pm Natural Fictions

Conversation with Artists Joshua Berg, Covington, KY; Heesoo Kwon, Los Angeles, CA; and Phillip Maisel, San Francisco, CA; moderated by Curator Lindsay Albert, Program Manager, KADIST, San Francisco, CA

2pm Paul Mpagi Sepuya: Compressed Tenses

Conversation with Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Artist, Los Angeles, CA, and Carmen Winant, Artist and Roy Lichtenstein Chair of Studio Art at the Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

3pm Nancy Rexroth: Secrets of My Power

Conversation with Curator Nathaniel M. Stein, Curator of Photography at the Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH, and Elizabeth Leitzell, Photographer and Short Filmmaker, Philadelphia, PA

4pm Trevor Paglen: the most merciful thing in the world

Performance-lecture by Trevor Paglen, Artist, New York, NY, and San Francisco, CA

5pm The Long View Keynote

Lecture by Daniel Immerwahr, Bergen Evans Professor in the Humanities at Northwestern University, Chicago, IL

Assistive Listening Devices (ALDs) and Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) are provided

Artists: Nancy Rexroth

Also with Daniel Immerwahr (speaker), Heesoo Kwon (speaker), Elizabeth Leitzell (speaker), Phillip Maisel (speaker), Trevor Paglen (speaker), Paul Mpagi Sepuya (speaker), Nathaniel M. Stein (speaker), Carmen Winant (speaker)

Cost: Free to Biennial Pass Holders

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