The Fall 2025 Graduate Art guest lecture series, organized by Kelly Akashi and Richard Hawkins.

Presented by Richard Hawkins unless otherwise noted.

Richard Hawkins

This event is free and open to the public. RSVPs are not required.

See the full Fall 2025 Seminar schedule here.

Richard Hawkins (b. 1961 Mexia, TX) is a Los Angeles artist and writer. There is perhaps absolutely no continuity across exhibitions that have focused on haunted house sculptures, collages in the spirit of Tatsumi Hijikata, ceramics patterned after the drawings of Antonin Artaud, Bonnard and Forrest Bess inspired paintings and, more recently, AI generated videos. The only commonality across bodies of work may be Hawkin’s deep dive into each of his subjects and, more often than not, an old medium gets freshly rejuvenated.

His works are held in the collections of the Whitney Museum, New York; Art Institute, Chicago; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and M+ Museum, Hong Kong among many others. Solo museum presentations include Tate Liverpool; Consortium, Dijon and Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Forthcoming in 2025-26, is Potentialities, a survey of works within the last 15 years, premiering at the Kunsthalle Vienna, Austria and continuing on to the Kestner Gesselschaft, Hannover, Germany.

Richard is represented by Greene-Naftali, New York and Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne and Berlin. He also frequently shows with Reena Spaulings Fine Art in its various locations. In 2024 he collaborated with Jonathan W. Anderson and the clothing brand Loewe on their Spring-Summer collection.

Image credits: Courtesy of the artist.

Support for this series is generously provided by the following: Jack Shear, Brenda R. Potter, Brendan Dugan, Lisson Gallery, Beth Rudin DeWoody, Sprüth Magers, BLUM, Hannah Hoffman, Alan Hergott, and David Kordansky.

ArtCenter's Graduate Art program is based on intensive studio practice and rigorous academic coursework. The program is distinguished by its low faculty-to-student ratio that provides students with the attention and feedback they need to refine and achieve their artistic goals. Faculty and students are artists working in all genres—film, video, photography, painting, sculpture, performance and installation. A significant number of alumni have achieved national and international acclaim and often return to share their insights and expertise as visiting faculty and guest lecturers.