Brandon Alvendia

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2024
Guest Panelist at Yeah No: A NOT Symposium on Arts and Regional Perspectives, Baltimore, MD

Created as a collaboration between BULK Space, MdW, and Independent Curators International, this gathering is a dynamic fusion of regional perspectives and global insights. “Yeah No” is a two-day activation designed to investigate different regions around the US and how people engage with art, culture, and their relationships to labor.
2024
What *Exactly* Does a Curator Do All Day? at SAIC VCS Hybrid Practices Seminar, Chicago, IL
Hybrid Practices seeks to bring artistic experimentation and research-based scholarship together. Hosted by Visual and Critical Studies to promote academic and artistic hybridity as a way to examine the social forces that shape our lives.
2023
Jeremy Chen: Devices, Tools, Objects, and Props at Grinnell Museum of Art, Grinnell, Iowa
Hour long conversation and audience Q&A with artist Jeremy Chen for his solo exhibit Devices, Tools, Objects, and Props.
2019
Why Make Art Now? at Launch Invitational Residency at Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago, Illinois
Initiated in 2013, LAUNCH Invitational Residency is a nomination-based professional development program for artists emerging from Chicago area undergraduate schools.
2018
Race, Representation, Social Justice panel at ICI Curator's Forum Invitational EXPO Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
The 2018 Curatorial Forum invited Chicago professionals and other visiting curators, and featured a series of peer-led, closed-door sessions focused on critical questions relevant to contemporary practice and context.
2017
13 Curatorial Projects, One of Which is a Lie at Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
Visiting Artist Faculty Summer Lecture Series at Osher Hall. Other lectures in the series included Layla Ali, Huma Bhabha, Abigail Deville, Rick Lowe, Jim Shaw, among others.
2016
A Visit to an Art Gallery as a Political Act. at College of Dupage Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Glen Ellyn, Illinois

Talk given in conjunction with "Long View / Long Game" an exhibition recognizing the 30 year anniversary of the art gallery at College of Dupage.
2015
Atlas Drift at ICI Intensive symposium at Prospect 3.New Orleans, Louisiana

Symposium was the capstone event at the conclusion of the ICI Intensive in New Orleans.
2015
I Like Your Work at VIA Magazine w/ Inside/Within, Chicago, Illinois

Rapid fire interviews between artists and art professionals.
2011
On Duchamp's Pocket Chess Set (1944) at The Art Institute of Chicago 'Artist Connect' Series, Chicago, Illinois
Artists were invited to speak on connecting to a work in the Art Institute collection.