Anthony Graves

Descripción del Artista

Anthony Graves(b. 1975, South Bend, Indiana) received his BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, his MFA from Cornell University, and was a fellow at the Whitney Independent Study Program in 2004–5. Graves is represented by PARQUE Galería, Mexico D. F. Since 2005 Graves has exhibited under the name Camel Collective along with Carla Herrera-Prats and others. The Collective has exhibited and staged performances at the Hessel Museum, Bard CCS, NY; Casa del Lago, UNAM, Mexico City; The Trienal Poli/Gráphica de San Juan, Puerto Rico; Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, Mexico City; OCAT, Shenzhen, China; Aarhus Kunstbygning, Denmark; Overgaden Samtidskunst, Denmark; Artists Space; and Art in General. Graves has taught in the Department of Architecture, Art and Planning at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY where he developed an undergraduate foundations course in theory and criticism, and helped organize the AAP New York City internship program. He has taught at the graduate level at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts where he conducted seminars in Critical Theory, and graduate group critiques. Graves currently teaches in the Graduate Studies Department at the Rhode Island School of Design where his classes include Art & Design: Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Theory and Practice or ADCOLAB. This course combines a seminar and studio practicum on collaboration, collectivity, and interdisciplinary with particular focus on ‘creative labor’. At RISD Graves developed the graduate course, Group Critique/Critical Dialogues, which focuses on the genealogy of the concept of ‘the crit’ and critique in art, while providing an extended group critique format. Graves currently advises graduates in the departments of Graphic Design, Sculpture, Digital+Media, and Furniture Design. As part of Camel Collective, Anthony Graves has edited a collection of essays and scripts on the educational turn in art (and the capitalist turn in education) titled The Second World Congress of Free Artists: A Play in Three Acts, which includes original contributions by over thirty artists, artist collectives, curators, and theorists. He has also written catalog essays on the artists Michael Ashkin for the Secession, Vienna, and on the paintings of Monique Crine. Graves is currently at work developing a book called Speculative Ergonomics.