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San Francisco Art Institute (Main Campus)

March 21 - March 21, 2011

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800 Chestnut Street San Francisco, CA 94133
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Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series: Sze Tsung Leong Beizhuanzi II, Siming District, Xiamen, 2004 From the series History Images Chromogenic Color Print © Sze Tsung Leong, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York
Acclaimed photographer Sze Tsung Leong was born in Mexico City, spent his childhood in Mexico, Britain, and the United States, and is currently based in New York. His globe-spanning work includes the series "History Images," which portrays the erasure of history and the reshaping of society through its built environment; "Horizons," images of natural and urban landscapes throughout the world that explore the relationships between far/near and foreign/familiar; and "Cities," detailed depictions of urban fabrics around the world that form a portrait of civilization at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Leong’s photographs are included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Deutsche Börse Art Collection; and the Yale University Art Gallery, among others. His work has been exhibited internationally, including at Yossi Milo Gallery in New York, where his series Cities is on display from February 17 to April 2, 2011; the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Mexico; the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon; and the 2006 Havana Biennial. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2006, his book "History Images" was published by Steidl, and his book "Horizons" will be published in Fall 2011. http://www.szetsungleong.com San Francisco Art Institute, Lecture Hall 800 Chestnut Street San Francisco, CA 94133