Allan McCollum

Portland State University MFA Monday Night Lecture Series

Allan McCollum was born in Los Angeles, California in 1944 and now lives and works in New York City. He has spent over thirty years exploring how objects achieve public and personal meaning in a world constituted in mass production, focusing most recently on collaborations with small community historical society museums in different parts of the world.

Solo retrospectives of Allan McCollum’s work have been mounted at the Musée d’Art Moderne, Villeneuve d’Ascq, Lille, France (1998); the Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany (1995-96); the Serpentine Gallery, London (1990); the Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmo, Sweden (1990); IVAM Centre del Carme, Valencia, Spain (1990); Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands (1989), and Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany (1988). He has produced public art projects in both the United States and Europe, and his works are held in over 60 major art museum collections around the world.

Portland State University's Art Department offers free public lectures every Monday night of the school year. This is the third lecture in the PMMNLS for this season. The Portland State University MFA Monday Night Lecture Series (PMMNLS) is supported in part by PICA, Reed College, PNCA, Lewis and Clark College, and PSU's Department of International Studies. If you or your organization are interested in becoming a supporter of the lecture series please let us know.

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