#  Stephen Prina 

Professor of Art, Film, and Visual Studies

Emeritus

 

 

 



   ![prina_stephen.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum5041/files/styles/hwp_4_5__480x600/public/ves/files/prina_stephen.jpg?itok=Qu3GEwjW) 

 



 

 location\_on Carpenter Center 302bprina [at] fas.harvard.edu(617) 384-8359 

 



 

Prina: MFA, California Institute of the Arts; BFA, Northern Illinois University. One-person surveys: *It was the best he could do at the moment*, Museum Boijmans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam; *To the People of Frankfurt am Main: At Least Three Types of Inaccessibility*, Frankfurter Kunstverein; *The Second Sentence of Everything I Read Is You*, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden. One-person exhibitions: Museo Madre, Naples; Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Germany; Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museé d’art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva; PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, among others. Group exhibitions: *Prospect 89*; the Sydney Biennale; the Venice Biennale XLIV; 51st Carnegie International; *Documenta IX*; 74th Whitney Biennial; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Institute of Contemporary Art and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, among others. Film festival: Oberhausen. Fellowships: Guggenheim Fellowship, Engelhard Foundation Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships. Recordings of his music are available on Drag City, Chicago, and organ of corti, Los Angeles.

   ![Stephen Prina: As He Remembered It, 2013, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, installation view.](/sites/g/files/omnuum5041/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/ves/files/prina_1.jpg?itok=P6NCV_I4) 

 

Images: 1. Stephen Prina performs at Maureen Paley., London, UK, 2012. Photo: Regina Fiorito. 2. *Stephen Prina: As He Remembered It,* 2013, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, installation view.



 

 

 





 

 

- ## Curricular Area
    
     [Studio Art and Photography](/area-specialization/studio-arts)
- ## Role
    
     [Emeriti](/role/emeriti)