Zimmerli Hosts Virtual Talk Featuring Rutgers Educator, Artist and Guggenheim Fellow

The June 11 lecture marks the culmination of Park McArthur's term as Tepper Family Endowed Chair at the Mason Gross School of the Arts 

Park McArthur, a conceptual artist and Rutgers University–New Brunswick educator who in the spring was named a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow for her work in fine arts, will hold a virtual lecture next month at the Zimmerli Art Museum. 

The online event, which is free and open to the public, is set from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday, June 11. Attendees may register for the virtual lecture via Zoom. American Sign Language interpretation and captioning will be provided. 

Presented in collaboration with the Department of Art & Design at the Mason Gross School of the Arts, the lecture will mark the culmination of McArthur's term as Tepper Family Endowed Chair at Rutgers University. 

Zimmerli officials said McArthur’s work “varies in material and process, often questioning frameworks of dependency through the artistic form of the readymade.” 

During her lecture, McArthur will share more about her art “as it relates to the collaborative process with her students” that has culminated in an exhibition at Westbeth Gallery in New York that opens June 1, said Zimmerli Director Maura Reilly. 

Park McArthur is an extraordinary conceptual artist whose practice requires us to think critically about disability and access.

Maura Reilly

Director of the Zimmerli Art Museum

“Park McArthur is an extraordinary conceptual artist whose practice requires us to think critically about disability and access,” said Reilly, adding that McArthur works with and mentors Mason Gross students in the master of fine arts program.  

In April, McArthur was one of three educators from Rutgers–New Brunswick who were among 188 Guggenheim Fellows selected for 2024 from a pool of 3,000 across 52 disciplines. The New York resident is using her fellowship to complete projects opening in spring 2025 in Austria and Germany. 

Last year McArthur wrote an essay for Rutgers Today for National Employment Disability Awareness Month. 

The artist’s solo exhibitions include those at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Chisenhale Gallery in London. McArthur’s art also has been featured at the Secession, an exhibition hall in Vienna, as well as the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, the Jewish Museum in New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.