Presented by MFA Fine Arts

Jude Tallichet

Mar 17, 2026; 3:00 - 5:00pm
Artist Jude Tallichet walking by her sculpture. Title: Heatmap, 16 feet long, 6 feet wide, two feet tall, reinforced plaster, polyurethane, powdered pigments, 2020Two works are pictured here 1.(Title: Fire Escape, 20 feet high, 15 feet long, 5 feet wide, industrial aluminum foil, 2020) and 2.(Title: Piano Forte, industrial aluminum foil, cast aluminum legs, 2020)

Artist Jude Tallichet walking by her sculpture, Heatmap.

An installation view of two sculptures by Jude Tallichet. From left to right: Fire Escape, industrial aluminum foil, 2020, and Piano Forte, industrial aluminum foil, cast aluminum legs, 2020.

MFA Fine Arts presents a talk by Jude Tallichet.


Jude Tallichet lives and works in Queens, NY. She has exhibited nationally and internationally in venues such as the Konsthallen in Gothenburg, Sweden, The Shanghai Biennial in China, The Busan Biennial in Korea, The Tirana Biennial in Albania, the “Officina America” exhibition in Bologna, Italy, and at Periogi Gallery in Leipzig, Germany. Her work was included in the 2016 Borås International Sculpture Biennial in Borås, Sweden. She had six solo exhibitions at Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York City, from 2000 to 2009. She participated in the inaugural Greater New York Show at PS1 MOMA, the “Treble” exhibition at Sculpture Center, and the “Brooklyn Next” exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. She has had solo shows at Smack Mellon in Brooklyn, 2020, the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, the Burnet Gallery in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Robert Miller Gallery, New York City. She was a featured performer in the Iron Artist Event at PS 1 MOMA, organized by Cabinet Magazine. Tallichet spent a year in Brazil as a Senior Fulbright Fellow and has received fellowship grants in sculpture from the National Endowment for the Arts and from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She has received residencies at the Rosa de la Cruz Collection, MacDowell Colony, the Millay Colony and at the Civitella Ranieri Center in Umbertide, Italy. She is Professor Emeritus, Sculpture, at the Tyler School of Art, where she taught 1987-2016. Jude was a founding member of the band Ultra Vulva and has collaborated on video and performance projects with a diverse collection of artists and musicians. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Denver Art Museum and Phoenix Museum of Art.


Talks is a series of lectures by artists, writers and scholars presented by MFA Fine Arts. Talks are held on Tuesdays at 3:00pm at 133 West 21st Street in Room 101C and on Zoom. Participation in the Q&A is limited to MFA Fine Arts students attending the lecture in person.


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