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Artist Talk—Martine Syms
In connection with the exhibition Martine Syms: Soliloquy, artist Martine Syms will engage in conversation with Maggie Brown-Peoples, co-curator of the exhibition. Syms’s work spans cinema, art, and theater, showcasing her signature blend of conceptual rigor, humor, and critique. Her feature-length film, Incense, Sweaters, and Ice (2017), was showcased at SLAM in 2020.
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When available, tickets for this program may be reserved in person at the Museum’s welcome desks or through MetroTix. All tickets reserved through MetroTix incur a service charge; the service charge is waived for tickets reserved at the Museum.
About the artist
Martine Syms is one of the defining voices of her generation. She is an artist and director whose practice spans cinema, art, and theater. Her work has been exhibited widely at major institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the ICA London, and MCA Chicago, and is held in significant public collections such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, Tate, the Guggenheim, LACMA, and the Walker Art Center.
Syms is the writer and director of The African Desperate, which premiered as the closing-night film of New Directors/New Films and is distributed internationally by MUBI. She has been a featured speaker at SXSW, Yale University, and Google, and is a 2025 recipient of the Arts & Letters Award. Her honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Creative Capital Award, a United States Artists Fellowship, and the Future Fields Prize, among others. She is currently working on her next feature-length film.
