Join us for a conversation with interdisciplinary artist Vishal Jugdeo. 

Vishal Jugdeo is an interdisciplinary artist who works with video, installation, performance and sculpture to construct experimental approaches to narrative. Referencing tropes of television, cinema and theater, his work emphasizes the layers of mediation that influence how we understand the unfolding present. Jugdeo has exhibited widely including solo presentations at the ICA Philadelphia, MOCA LA, Commonwealth and Council, LAXART and Western Front, Vancouver. Commissioned works have been featured in Performa, New York, Made in LA at the Hammer Museum, and at the Witte De With Center for Contemporary Arts, Rotterdam. For five years, Jugdeo has collaborated on an episodic film project with vqueeram, a poet and activist based in Delhi. Currently they are working with novelist Anuk Arudpragasam on a new episode, an iteration of which will appear in post, MoMA’s international research journal. Jugdeo completed an MFA at UCLA, and a BFA at Simon Fraser University. He is a 2015 Guggenheim Foundation Fellow, and has received grants from Art Matters, California Community Foundation, and the Canada Council for the Arts, as well as residencies at Skowhegan, BOFFO and the MacDowell Colony. Jugdeo is assistant professor and area head of New Genres in the Department of Art at UCLA.