Free lecture by multidisciplinary Indigenous artist Cannupa Hanska Luger at Kingsbury Hall, part of the David P. Gardner Lecture series and the Inaugural Summit for the Visual Arts.
Cannupa Hanska Luger comes to Kingsbury Hall on Thursday, March 25, 2027, for the David P. Gardner Lecture in Humanities and Fine Arts. The lecture is presented by UtahPresents, a program of the University of Utah, in partnership with the College of Fine Arts and the Department of Art & Art History, and it's part of the Inaugural Summit for the Visual Arts.
Luger is a Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, and Lakota multidisciplinary artist born on the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, and an enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes of Fort Berthold. His work spans large-scale installation, sculpture, performance, time-based media, and community engagement, all drawing on Indigenous worldviews to address cultural continuity, ecological repair, and collective care. He's shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Sharjah Biennial, and his work is held in the collections of the National Gallery of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Detroit Institute of Arts. He was a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow and is a 2025 National Geographic Wayfinder Award recipient.
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The lecture starts at 7:30 PM. Admission is free, but you'll need tickets to get in—they're e-tickets sent out 48 hours before the show. If you need ADA or ASL seating, call the box office at 801-581-7100 to arrange it.
