Hamza Walker
Curator
Tuesday, February 7, 2006

Hamza Walker is director of education and associate curator for the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago. He has written articles and reviews for the publications Trans , New Art Examiner , Parkett , and Artforum , and was a selecting curator for the Phaidon publications Vitamin P and Cream 3 . Curatorial projects at the Renaissance Society include the group exhibitions A Perfect Union...More or Less ; New Video, New Europe and Watery, Domestic; he also organized a survey of Michael Auder's videos. Walker currently is on the boards of Noon, a literary annual publishing short fiction, and Lampo, a new and experimental music presenter. In addition, he has served on numerous panels locally and internationally, and is the recipient of the 1999 Norton Curatorial Grant and the 2004 Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement.

Walker will be presenting the final version of his essay "Generational Dislocations: The Strange Case of Raymond Pettibon and Charles Manson."