Artist Talk: Kevin Beasley
And in My Dream I Was Rolling on the Floor

In anticipation of Kevin Beasley's performance And in My Dream I Was Rolling on the Floor, at MOCA Cleveland and the historic Cozad-Bates House, Beasley will be giving an artist talk at CIA on Monday, April 7, at 6:30pm.

Kevin Beasley (1985, Lynchburg, VA) lives and works in New York City. He holds a BFA from the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, and an MFA from Yale University School of Art. Currently, he is an artist-in-residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem, and in 2013 he completed a fellowship at the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) in Brooklyn. Solo exhibitions of his work have been held at The Butcher’s Daughter, Ferndale, MI, and ORG Contemporary, Detroit. He has participated in group exhibitions at Interstate projects, Brooklyn; Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York; The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY; and The Museum of Modern Art, New York. He is currently featured in the 2014 Whitney Biennial, and participated in the 2013 Queens International, Queens Museum, NY. Beasley was included in the 2013 group exhibition Realization is Better than Anticipation at MOCA Cleveland.

For more information about Beasley's project, and to book free tickets to the April 12 performance, visit the MOCA website.