EventsThe New Social Environment#830

Ishmael Randall Weeks: 20 años

Featuring Weeks and Tom McGlynn, with Will Stanier

Monday, June 12, 2023 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.

Artist Ishmael Randall Weeks joins Rail Editor-at-Large Tom McGlynn for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by Will Stanier.

In this Talk

Visit Ishmael Randall Weeks: 20 años, on view at ICPNA, Lima through June 18, 2023 →

Ishmael Randall Weeks

Ishmael Randall Weeks (Cusco, Perú, 1976) graduated from Bard College in 2000 and attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2007. His work has been exhibited in various galleries and museums in Peru and internationally, including Middlesbrough Institute of Modern of Art (England, United Kingdom); MoMA P.S.1 (New York); Spanish Culture Center of Buenos Aires (CCBBA); and elsewhere, including numerous biennials. He has garnered numerous residency grants and awards from various institutions including the Rockefeller Foundation, the MACRO Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy; and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York; among others.

Tom McGlynn

Tom McGlynn is an artist and writer based in the NYC area. His work is represented in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum, The Museum of Modern Art, and The Cooper- Hewitt National Design Museum of the Smithsonian among other national and international collections. He is currently an Editor at Large at The Brooklyn Rail, contributing articles and criticism since 2012. He also currently teaches at Parsons/The New School, NYC. In June 2024, he had his first one-person exhibition in Europe, at Settantotto Gallery in Gent, Belgium. He opened his fourth solo exhibition at Rick Wester Fine Art, NYC, in October 2025.

The Rail has a tradition of ending our conversations with a poetry reading, and we're fortunate to have Dao Strom reading.

Dao Strom

Artist Dao Strom works with three “voices”—written, sung, visual—to explore hybridity and the intersection of personal and collective histories. She is the author of Instrument (Fonograf Editions, 2020) and its musical companion Traveler’s Ode (Antiquated Future Records, 2020); a bilingual poetry-art book, You Will Always Be Someone From Somewhere Else (AJAR Press); a memoir, We Were Meant To Be a Gentle People, and song cycle, East/West; and two books of fiction, The Gentle Order of Girls and Boys and Grass Roof, Tin Roof. Born in Vietnam, Strom grew up in the Sierra Nevada foothills of California and lives in Portland, Oregon. She is co-founder of two collective art projects, She Who Has No Master(s), and De-Canon.

https://www.daostrom.com/

We’d like to thank The Marion Boulton Kippy Stroud Foundation and Teiger Foundation for making these conversations possible, and for their support of our growing archive 🌈✨