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A head shot of the artist Roberto Lugo

Roberto Lugo is the recipient of the 2019 Rome Prize, and was awarded a 2019 Pew Fellowship. His work is represented in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, The High Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, The Walters Museum of Art, and more. (Roberto Lugo, image courtesy of Wexler Gallery)

The Office of the Curator will invite Roberto Lugo to guest curate the next Penn Art Collection exhibition at the Arthur Ross Gallery, scheduled for either spring or fall of 2021. Lugo is an award-winning Philadelphia-based artist, ceramicist, social activist, spoken-word poet, and educator, whose works underscore issues of poverty, inequality, and social and racial injustice. Lugo will have the freedom to explore the university’s collection through the lens of his own artistic interests, as well as to integrate his own works to the exhibition, to be in dialogue with the collection, thus lending a fresh voice to Penn’s 8,000 plus works collection. As guest curator, Lugo will also write an artist statement, narrate an online audio tour of the exhibition, meet with students, and present a lecture or spoken-word performance at the opening of the exhibition.

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John McInerney (he/him)
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