This event is now sold out. A standby line will form at 5:00PM on March 17th.
Paper is one of the most important and ubiquitous technologies. Indispensable yet disposable, often replicated but never replaced, paper functions as a vital interface for artists: a site to mobilize information, test conceptual approaches, and create hybrid forms. This year’s Patricia Orden Memorial Symposium, Drawing in the World: Paper’s Material Futures, will convene a group of leading contemporary artists to discuss the role of paper—in all its forms—in their varied practices. Individual presentations will be followed by a moderated group discussion centered on the material and conceptual possibilities of paper.
Participating artists
Cameron Clayborn
Harmony Hammond
Johanna Unzueta
Moderated by Katie Anania, author of Out of Paper: Drawing, Environment, and the Body in 1960s America (2024) and associate professor of art history at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Reception to follow event.
The Patricia Orden Memorial Symposium is a biennial public forum for conversations about works on paper. Hosted by MoMA’s Department of Drawings and Prints since 2007, the event honors Patricia Orden, an advocate for contemporary art.