Artist in residence Matthew Buckingham to speak at MMCA on April 25

Arts Institute Artist in Residence Matthew Buckingham will present a public lecture at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, April 25, at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (MMCA), 227 State Street. He will discuss “Behind the Terminal Moraine,” his new installation for MMCA’s major reopening exhibition, “Between the Lakes: Artists Respond to Madison.”

The installation will be available for viewing prior to the lecture, and a reception will follow. For more information, call MMCA at (608) 258-4177.

Buckingham received his bachelor’s in film production and film studies from the University of Iowa in 1988, and in 1996 he completed a master’s in fine arts at Bard College. In 1997, he participated in the Whitney Independent Study Program, a division of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. His work, including films, drawings, and photographs, has been shown at numerous museums and galleries around the world, including the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria; the Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; The Museum of Modern Art; and the PS 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York.

Buckingham is one of seven artists participating in MMCA’s “Between the Lakes.” This exhibition, created for the opening of the museum’s new facility in the Overture Center for the Arts and coinciding with the sesquicentennial of Madison’s city charter, asks the participating artists to explore the past and examine the present.

Buckingham is in residence at the UW–Madison under the auspices of the Arts Institute Interdisciplinary Arts Residency Program, which brings world-class artists to campus to teach interdepartmental, for-credit courses, and to perform or exhibit work for campus and community audiences. Governed by arts faculty and staff, the Arts Institute represents all the arts on campus and works to make the arts more visible and effective at UW–Madison. The Arts Institute funds and supports projects with university- and community-wide impact, including artists residencies, awards and fellowships, public programs, and arts marketing and outreach. Buckingham’s residency is sponsored by the department of communication arts and MMCA and co-sponsored by the art history department, the art department and the Visual Culture Cluster.