Artist Talk: Erin Shirreff
August 7, 6:15 pm–7:15 pm
Lubar Auditorium
Join us for the next event in our Artist Talk series, featuring internationally renowned contemporary artist Erin Shirreff. Hear from Shirreff as she delves into her boundary-crossing studio practice—which blends photography, sculpture, and video—and her artworks on view in Erin Shirreff: Permanent Drafts. This is the most comprehensive exhibition in a decade of works by Shirreff and showcases more than 40 recent works, including installations specific to the Museum.
Seating for this event is first come, first served. Artist Talks are included with Museum admission and are free for Members. Admission tickets are available at the door or online.
The Artist Talk series welcomes emerging, mid-career, and established artists to share what it means to live creatively. Discussing motivation, medium, and technique, artists will reveal how and why their work expresses their emotions and ideas.
About Erin Shirreff
Erin Shirreff (b.1975, British Columbia, Canada) lives and works in Montreal. Recent solo exhibitions of her work have been held at SITE Santa Fe, NM (2024); the Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA (2021–22); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2019); Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland (2016); Buffalo AKG Art Museum, NY (formerly the Albright-Knox Art Gallery) (2016); and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2015). Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Dallas Museum of Art; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Nouveau Musée National de Monaco; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others. Shirreff earned an MFA in sculpture from Yale University in 2005.
The Milwaukee Art Museum is grateful to its exhibition sponsors.
Image: Erin Shirreff (Canadian, b. 1975), Inside times (detail), 2020. Cyanotype photogram and fabric over panels (diptych). 80 × 120 in. Courtesy of the artist; Bradley Ertaskiran, Montreal; and Sikkema Malloy Jenkins, New York. © Erin Shirreff
