is an artist, writer, educator and curator. Born in New York City in 1960, they attended Bard College and then California Institute of the Arts. After receiving their MFA, they moved to San Francisco in 1984. They have had one-person exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; University Art Museum, Berkeley; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, and the Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College and their works are in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, the Brooklyn Museum, The Studio Museum in Harlem, and many others. They have authored numerous catalogue essays, as well as articles and interviews appearing in such publications as Artforum, Out, Interview, and Outlook. In 1995 they were co-curator, with Lawrence Rinder, of the landmark exhibition In A Different Light, at the University Art Museum, Berkeley, the first museum exhibition to examine the impact of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Queer artists on contemporary art. In 2017 they curated Tag, Propositions on Queer Play and the Way Forward at the ICA Philadelphia. They are currently the founding chair of the ICP/Bard MFA program at the International Center for Photography in New York. Blake is represented by Anglim Gilbert Gallery in San Francisco, and Matthew Marks Gallery in New York. For more information about Blake’s work visit: http://naylandblake.net.
This talk is part of the New York Academy of Art’s Professional Practice Lecture Series featuring art world professionals in conversation with Senior Critic Sharon Louden.