The Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago (MoCP) is the world’s premier college art museum dedicated to photography, with a permanent collection of over 18,000 works. As an international hub, MoCP generates ideas and provokes dialogue among students, artists, and diverse communities through groundbreaking exhibitions and programming.
Founded by Columbia College Chicago in 1976 as an intimate and comprehensive visual study center for students, educators, and general audiences alike, MoCP presents public programs and exhibitions that foster a greater understanding of the artistic, cultural, and political implications of the image in our world today.
MoCP continues to offer a stimulating and innovative forum for the collection, creation, and examination of contemporary images from diverse aesthetic traditions and technologies.
Visit mocp.org for a list of upcoming exhibitions and events.
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Please join MoCP for a Lecture in Photography with esteemed artist Bridget Smith at Ferguson Hall from 6:00 – 7:30 p.m., followed by a light reception and exhibition viewing at MoCP.
Bridget Smith is a multidisciplinary artist who works with photography, video, and site-specific installations to explore the relationship between the real and the imagined within social and architectural spaces. Smith’s works are held in the permanent collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Fundacion Jumex, Mexico City; the Contemporary Art Society, London; and the Denver Art Museum, Denver, among many others. Smith’s work, We Must Live, (2012), is on view at MoCP in the exhibition Channeling: body ←Image→ viewer.
Learn more about the artist here.
Lectures in Photography is co-sponsored in part by MoCP and Columbia College Chicago’s School of Visual Arts.
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