Visiting Artist Lecture: Aitor Lajarin-Encina

Join the Division of Art for an in-depth look into a visiting artist’s work during our monthly Visiting Artist Lecture Series. This series offers a unique opportunity for the public to engage with renowned artists from diverse backgrounds and disciplines as they share their expertise, accompanied by a showcase of their artworks. It helps provide an intimate glimpse into their creative process and the stories that fuel their work.

This month’s lecture will have artist Aitor Lajarin-Encina discussing his work and practice. He is an artist, educator and organizer born in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country, Spain, in 1977, the year of punk. He received his B.F.A. in painting from the University of Basque Country, Bilbao, and his M.F.A. in visual arts from the University of California, San Diego. Lajarin-Encina is an interdisciplinary artist whose principal expertise is painting and drawing. Some of Lajarin-Encina’s creative work and research interests include contemporary painting and drawing critical issues in the transdisciplinary field, reception and participation aesthetics, poetics of humor, and play. As an organizer and educator, he is interested in exploring intersections between contemporary art practice, self-organizational models of production, public culture and social equity.