The Department of Art, Art History, & Design is honored to host visiting artist Rubens Ghenov to give a lecture on his work as an artist. Following this public talk, there will be the mid-show reception of the "Wet Incantation”exhibit in Sheppard Contemporary in Church Fine Arts Building, 6:30-8:00pm.

Rubens Ghenov was born in São Paulo, Brazil and immigrated to the US in 1989. He received his MFA from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in 2010. Ghenov has shown nationally in both solo and group exhibitions at Morgan Lehman Gallery (NY), Geoffrey Young Gallery (MA), TSA Brooklyn (NYC), Woodmere Art Museum (PA), and the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PA). In 2013, he co-curated with Dona Nelson the 72nd Annual Juried Exhibition at the Woodmere Art Museum. Ghenov has been featured in Art in America, The Village Voice, Bomb Magazine, Title Magazine and The Philadelphia Inquirer.