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Keynote: Cultural Forms and Formers Graham FagenRespondent: Tiffany Boyle, Head of Programme at Dundee Contemporary Art, and DJCAD alumna
Graham Fagen
Graham Fagen (born 1966) is a Scottish artist living and working in Glasgow, Scotland.
He studied sculpture at The Glasgow School of Art (1984-1988, BA(Hons)) and Art & Architecture at the Kent Institute of Art and Design (1989-1990, MA).
He is Professor of Fine Art at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design at the University of Dundee.
Graham Fagen is one of the UK’s foremost contemporary artists, working across mediums including video, installation, sculpture, photography, and text, to create works which explore history and culture. He is interested in how history and culture is created and how in turn this shapes and forms who we are or who we become.
Common themes of his work have included Scotland and the transatlantic slave trade, war, plants, journeys, poetry, and popular song, as a means through which to explore the varying forces impacting our contemporary culture and identity.
In the UK he is represented by Matt’s Gallery, London and he has exhibited at institutions including Victoria & Albert Museum, Tate Britain and the Institute of Contemporary Arts. In 1999 he was invited by the Imperial War Museum, London to work as the Official War Artist for Kosovo.
Internationally he has exhibited at the Busan Biennale, South Korea and the Art and Industry Biennial, New Zealand and was international artist in residence at Artpace, San Antonio, USA.
In 2015, he represented Scotland at the 56th Venice Biennale.
He has work in the collections of Tate; Arts Council Collection, Hayward Gallery, London; The British Council; The UK Government Art Collection; Imperial War Museum, London; V&A Museum, London; Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds; Gallery of Modern Art Glasgow, City of Edinburgh Collection, Ayrshire Museums, Dundee Museums, Inverness Museum and Art Gallery. The Fleming Collection, London. The National Galleries of Scotland. Caldic Collection, Voorlinden Museum, The Netherlands. The Hiscox Collection. Galerie De l’UQAM, University of Montreal, Canada and the Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, Mississippi, USA.
Private collections in London, Glasgow, Edinburgh, New York, San Antonio, New Zealand, Germany, Denmark & Italy.
| Period | 21 Mar 2024 |
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| Event title | CHEAD Annual Conference 2024: Unlocked: Creativity and Culture for Positive Change |
| Event type | Conference |
| Location | Dundee, United KingdomShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | National |