“Balancing Act on Home, Art, and Academia: A Reckoning From the Margins”

Lorena Molina is a Salvadoran multidisciplinary artist, educator and curator. She is an Assistant Professor of Photography and Digital Media in the School of Art at the University of Houston. She was also the founder and the director of Third Space Gallery, a community space and gallery that supports and highlights BIPOC artists.

She received her Master of Fine Art degree from the University of Minnesota in 2015 and her Bachelor of Fine Art from California State University, Fullerton, in 2012. Molina has been a recipient of the Diversity of Views and Experiences fellowship, The Christopher Cardozo Fellowship, (Two) Truth and Reconciliation grant from Artswave, The Idea Fund, and The Kala Art Institute fellowship. She has exhibited and performed both nationally and internationally, such as the Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, The Kemper Museum, Southeast Museum of Photography, 621 Gallery, The Carnegie, Covington, KY, Vox Populi, FSU Museum of Fine Arts, EXPO Chicago, The Armory, The Delaplaine Art Center, The Beijing Film Academy and all over the piazzas of Florence, Italy.

Hanes Visiting Artist Lecture Series 2024-2025: The Rage of Wildness: Radical Futures. This lecture series will highlight artists creating dialogues and radical gestures that envision a future beyond colonial thinking. We will explore practices that operate in a mode of unknowing, decoloniality, resistance to dominant ontologies, disruption of imposed order, engagement with indigeneity, queerness, and ecological perspectives.

An endowment established in 1983 through the generosity of Nancy and Robin Hanes supports the Art Department’s Visiting Artist Series. This important program brings both established and emerging artists to campus to discuss their work in public lectures and to offer individual critiques to our M.F.A. students.  The Hanes Visiting Artist series greatly enriches both our academic programs and our outreach to the wider community.  All lectures are free and open to the public.

A weeknight or daytime permit is now required after 5:00pm on weekdays. There is no permit required from 5:00pm Friday through 7:30am Monday. A $1.00 one-night pass is available in selected lots. More information can be found on the UNC Parking website.

Image: Installation view of “This must be the place,” 2020.