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Collage of five diverse artworks from the Hammer Museum Collections side by side. From left to right: 1) Contemporary painting of two embracing figures with surreal elements. 2) Post-impressionist style painting of trees with vibrant blues and greens. 3) Black and white illustration of a face with intricate patterns. 4) Japanese woodblock print style image of a figure in a checkered robe. 5) Photograph of a couple dancing, the woman in a black dress and the man in white

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Every Ocean Hughes FKA Emily Roysdon and Ain Bailey, Uncounted (performance 9), 2017

Every Ocean Hughes

Nov 26, 2018 - Jan 17, 2019; Mar 6-Apr 6, 2019

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Every Ocean Hughes F.K.A. Emily Roysdon (b. 1977, Easton, Maryland) is an artist, writer, and professor who lives and works in Stockholm. Their work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon (2017), Secession, Vienna (2015), Participant Inc., New York (2015), and the Berkeley Art Museum (2010), and they have received commissions for new work from Tate Modern, London (2012, 2017), the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2013–14), and Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (2013–14). Hughes’s work was featured in the 11th Gwangju Biennale, South Korea (2016), the Biennale of Sydney (2014), the Whitney Biennial, New York (2010), and Manifesta 8, Murcia, Spain (2010), and in group exhibitions at Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal (2017); Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2016), the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2014), Moderna Museet, Malmö, Sweden (2014), Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2011), and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid (2010). Hughes used the residency to work on a new performance project called Help the Dead that addresses self-determination, diverse kinship, the fantasy of continuity, and the abstractness of death. This new work is the first in a series developing the idea of "queer death" through text, sculpture, photography, music composition and performance.