Speakers
- Nyugen Smith
- Lecturer of Interdisciplinary Art, Southern Methodist University
Drawing heavily on his Caribbean heritage, Nyugen is committed to raising the consciousness of past and present political struggles through his practice which consists of sculpture, mixed-media drawing, installation, video and performance. He is influenced by the conflation of African spiritual and cultural practices and their entanglement with remnants of European colonial rule in the African diaspora. Responding to the legacy of this particular environment, Nyugen’s work considers imperialist practices of oppression, violence and ideological misnomers. He received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and B.A in Fine Art from Seton Hall University. Nyugen is a 2018 recipient of the Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors grant and 2018 Franklin Furnace Award.