The MFA in Visual Studies welcomes Gil Blank as part of the 2013-2014 Graduate Visiting Artist Lecture Series.

Gil Blank is a photographer and a frequent writer on social, political, and historical contexts of photographic practices. His photographs have been exhibited at PS1/MoMA Contemporary Art Center and White Columns, New York; Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver; CB Roppongi, Tokyo; and Ville D’Images, Vevey, Switzerland. Active in publishing, he has served in various editorial capacities for Art On Paper, Issue, and Whitewall, and was a founding editor of Influence, an independently published magazine devoted to contemporary image-making.