Join FWM Artist-in-Residence Jayson Musson at his alma mater for this special artist talk and reception. Musson, a 2011 Penn MFA Grad, will speak about his artistic practice and current exhibition His History of Art—the culmination of his residency at FWM. Penn will also celebrate the installation of Musson’s sculpture Sculptural Allegory for a Specific Cultural Sphere, 2014, in the Annenberg Lobby, the newest addition to the University of Pennsylvania Art Collection. A free public reception will follow at Penn’s Arthur Ross Gallery.
This event is organized with The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation, University of Pennsylvania’s Office of the Curator as part of Arts & Homecoming, an annual celebration of the arts at Penn.
Organized in conjunction with Jayson Musson: His History of Art.
Jayson Scott Musson was born in the Bronx, NY in 1977. He received a BFA in photography from University of the Arts and an MFA in painting from the University of Pennsylvania, both in Philadelphia, also attending the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Skowhegan, ME in 2011. Musson is represented by Salon 94 in New York and Fleisher/Ollman in Philadelphia. His solo exhibitions include We Sing in A Dead Language, Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg (2019); Demon All Day, Salon 94 Freemans, New York (2017); The Truth in the Song, Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia (2016); The Grand Manner at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia (2011); and Too Black For BET, Dazed & Confused Magazine Gallery, London, England (2008). His work has been included in group exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Lisson Gallery, and Postmasters Gallery, New York; Whitechapel Gallery, London; Galerie Perrotin, Paris; Grimmuseum, Berlin; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; David Castillo Gallery, Miami; and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, among others.
