Gain new insights about the work of Lotty Rosenfeld from this conversation with the artist Cristóbal Lehyt and exhibition co-curator Julia Bryan-Wilson. Together they will consider Rosenfeld’s enduring impact and influence on contemporary Chilean visual artists.
This program is presented in conjunction with Lotty Rosenfeld: Disobedient Spaces, on view at the Wallach Art Gallery through March 15, 2026.
Cristóbal Lehyt is associate professor at Cooper Union and a Chilean born New York based artist that works in different media. His work has been shown at the Carpenter Center, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Fundación Telefonica Chile, Or Gallery, Kunsthaus Dresden, Artists Space, The Shanghai Biennale, The Mercosul Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art and Queens Museum among others. In addition, he has produced works responding to specific contexts, in cities that include Bogotá, Caracas, Mexico City, Berlin, Vienna, Barcelona, Madrid, Beijing, São Paulo, Buenos Aires, and Rio de Janeiro. He has been awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and the Art Forum Fellowship, Harvard University. His work is in numerous collections including the Museum of Contemporary Art Santiago, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Julia Bryan-Wilson is Professor of Contemporary Art and LGBTQ+ Studies and core faculty in Columbia's Institute for the Study of Sexuality and Gender. She is the author of numerous books including Art Workers: Radical Practice in the Vietnam War Era (2009, named a best book of the year by the New York Times and Artforum) and Fray: Art and Textile Politics (2017, a New York Times best art book of the year and winner of the Frank Jewett Mather Award, the Robert Motherwell Book Award, and the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present Book Prize). Bryan-Wilson is Curator-at-Large at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP). Her show Louise Nevelson: Persistence, was an official Collateral Event of the Venice Biennale in 2022; and with Andrea Andersson, she curated Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen (2017). In 2024 she served as the President of the International Jury of the 60th Venice Biennale.
