Last Wednesday Lunch: Erin Jane Nelson
October 28th, 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm
Last Wednesday lunch is a monthly, half-hour lecture series offering visitors a digestible
opportunity to connect with art and ideas on display at the Zuckerman Museum of Art.
Each event will take place from 12:30 pm to 1:00 pm and will feature a new guest speaker.
Erin Jane Nelson is a native Atlantan who received her BFA from The Cooper Union in
New York in 2011. Recent solo exhibitions include: כינהש (Shekinah), Chapter NY; Her
Deepness at Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, and Psychopompopolis at DOCUMENT, Chicago.
Her work has recently been featured in group exhibitions at La Galerie, centre d’art
contemporain, Noisy-le-Sec, France; Deli Gallery, Brooklyn; Van Doren Waxter, New
York; and Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich. Recent museum acquisitions of her work are
currently included in Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950-2019 at the Whitney Museum
of American Art, and Other.Worldly at the Fries Museum in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands.
She was named one of Forbes Magazine's "30 Under 30" in Arts and Culture in 2019 and
is a 2020 recipient of the Rabkin Award for Arts Journalism. In addition to her art
practice, she is the Director of Burnaway.org.