Dinner Dialogues: Pia Camil and Margot Norton on Creative Practice
Experience an intimate evening with renowned Mexican contemporary artist Pia Camil and BAMPFA Chief Curator Margot Norton. Immerse yourself in an inspiring conversation that explores their shared artistic journeys and celebrates the Bay Area book launch of Pia Camil: Friendly Fires (Inventory Press, 2024), the artist’s highly anticipated first monograph. This publication coincides with a major survey exhibition at Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, highlighting Camil’s significant contributions to feminist and Latin American art.
Don’t miss this exclusive opportunity to engage with two influential figures in contemporary art. The discussion promises to be both captivating and insightful.
Join us for an evening of art, conversation, and inspiration.
Doors open at 5:00 PM
Free public talk begins at 5:30 PM, followed by dinner at 6:45 PM, Dinner Tickets Sold Here
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Margot Norton is Chief Curator at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), which she joined in 2023. At BAMPFA she curated the exhibition Gabriel Chaile: No hay nada que destruya el corazón como la pobreza (2023) and is curating To Exalt the Ephemeral: The (Im)permanent Collection (2024) and Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection, co-curated with Cecilia Alemani (2024). Norton was previously Allen and Lola Goldring Senior Curator at the New Museum, New York, where she recently curated exhibitions with Carmen Argote, Diedrick Brackens, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Wangechi Mutu, Pepón Osorio, Mika Rottenberg, Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca, and the 2021 New Museum Triennial: Soft Water Hard Stone. In 2017, she curated the Eighth Sequences Real Time Art Festival in Reykjavik, Iceland, and the Georgian Pavilion at the 2019 Venice Biennale with artist Anna K.E. In 2016 Norton curated “Pia Camil: A Pot for a Latch” at the New Museum, Camil’s first solo museum presentation in New York.
