CANCELED: McKnight Visual Artist Discussion Series: Henriette Huldisch, Alexa Horochowski, Joe Sinness, Tetsuya Yamada

About the Panelists

Henriette Huldisch is currently Chief Curator and Head of Curatorial Affairs at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Previously, she was Director of Exhibitions and Curator at the MIT List Visual Arts Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she organized exhibitions such as Ericka Beckman: Double Reverse (2019), Before Projection: Video Sculpture 1974–1995 (2018); An Inventory of Shimmers: Objects of Intimacy in Contemporary Art (2017); and Edgar Arceneaux: Written in Smoke and Fire (2016). From 2010–2014, she worked at Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum for Contemporary Art – Berlin, and curated exhibitions with Harun Farocki, Anthony McCall, and others. During that time, Huldisch also served as Visiting Curator at Cornerhouse, Manchester, where she presented solo projects with Stanya Kahn and Rosa Barba. From 2004–2008, she served as assistant curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Among her publications are Before Projection (2018), An Inventory of Shimmers (2017), Ellen Harvey: The Museum of Failure (2015), the 2008 Biennial Exhibition catalogue, and numerous contributions to exhibition catalogues and periodicals such as Artforum.

Alexa Horochowski is a dual citizen of Argentina and the United States. Her art practice includes sculpture, photography and video. Artist residencies at Forest Island Project, Mammoth Lakes, CA (2018), MAM, Chiloé (2017), and CASAPOLI, Coliúmo (2013) significantly impacted her material and geopolitical research into the interrelationship between the environment and humankind. Horochowski holds an MFA from the University of Michigan, a BA in Creative Writing, and a BJ in Journalism from the University of Missouri. Her artwork has been exhibited in Minnesota at the Walker Art Center, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Highpoint Center for Printmaking, the Rochester Art Center, the Nemeth Art Center, and The Soap Factory. She has also exhibited nationally and internationally. Select awards include a 2018 Efroymson Artist Fellowship, 2003 and 2014 McKnight Visual Artist Fellowships, 2012 and 2014 Minnesota State Artist Initiative Grants, and a 2004 Bush Artist Fellowship. Horochowski teaches studio arts at St. Cloud State University.

Joe Sinness is interested in the history of queer sexual performance and the way that queer people have found love and community. His colored pencil drawings on paper seek to visualize future sexual utopic landscapes and celebrate queer bodies. He has exhibited nationally and internationally, and in 2017 had a solo exhibition at the Minneapolis Institute of Art titled The Flowers. Sinness holds a BA in studio art and English literature from St. John’s University in Minnesota and an MFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design ’05. Sinness was a recipient of a 2013 McKnight Visual Artist Fellowship. He works as a concept illustrator and lives in St. Paul.  

Tetsuya Yamada works with a wide variety of media including clay, the material that roots him. By paying attention to the great potential within simple objects, their shape, and how they act and are acted upon, Yamada’s work integrates the mind's imaginative and creative potential with the mundane acts of ordinary life that blur the categories of art, science, religion, and medicine. He is the Grand Prize winner of the 2011 Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennale, South Korea, and the recipient of a 2005 McKnight Artist Fellowship for Ceramic Artists, a 2001 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Competition Award, and a 2014 McKnight Visual Artist Fellowship. Originally from Tokyo, Yamada has a BFA from Tamagawa University, Tokyo, and MFA from Alfred University, New York. He is currently a professor of art at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.