The Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art is a non-profit, non-collecting contemporary art institute within the School of the Arts at the College of Charleston. The HICA presents contemporary art exhibitions by emerging or mid-career artists. The Halsey is housed in the Marion and Wayland H. Cato Jr. Center for the Arts at 161 Calhoun Street, in the heart of downtown Charleston. The Halsey features two gallery spaces, the Deborah A. Chalsty Gallery and the South Gallery, which include a total 3,000 sq. feet of exhibition space. The vision of the HICA is to provide a comprehensive contemporary-art program that is committed to providing a direct experience with artworks in various media, in an environment that fosters creativity, innovation, and learning. Check the gallery's website for current exhibitions.
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Gallery Hours (During Exhibitions)
Mon. - Sat. 11 am - 4 pm
Open until 7 pm on Thursday
Admission:
Free
Halsey Institute of
Contemporary Art
161 Calhoun St
Charleston SC 29424
(843) 953-4422
Halsey Inst. of Cont. Art Website
Upcoming Exhibition: Spandita Malik - Meshes of Resistence
When: Apr. 5, 2024 - July 20, 2024
Where: Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art
Spandita Malik is a visual artist from India who is currently based in New York. Her work is concerned with the current global socio-political state of affairs with an emphasis on women’s rights and gendered violence. Malik specializes in process-based work in photography, recently with photographic surface embroideries and collaborations with women in India. Malik’s work in expanded documentary and social practice consciously emanates from the idea of decolonizing the eye and aesthetic surrounding documentary photography of India. Malik’s exhibition at the Halsey Institute, Meshes of Resistance, features work from Malik’s ongoing Jāḷī series. In this work, Malik photographs women in India that she has connected with through self-help centers for domestic and gender-based violence. Malik prints these portraits, created in the womens’ homes and personal spaces, onto fabric specific to the region. The women then embroider their portraits in any way they choose, taking agency over their ultimate representation and creating an artistic collaboration with Malik.
Upcoming Exhibition: Elisa Harkins - Teach Me A Song
When: April. 5, 2024 - July 20, 2024
Where: Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art
Elisa Harkins’s ongoing project, Teach Me a Song, builds on the artist’s interests in translation, language preservation, and Indigenous musicology. The multifaceted work is structured on a series of exchanges, where she invites collaborators to teach her a song. With the recordings of these songs—which may be ceremonial, religious, rock & roll, electronic, etc.—Harkins’s practice of nation to nation sharing and trading music is presented as a means of decolonizing traditions of Indigenous musicology. This exhibition is the first time the entirety of this project has been exhibited.
Upcoming Exhibition: Demond Melancon
When: Aug. 23, 2024 - Dec. 7, 2024
Where: Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art
The Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art is proud to announce the first solo museum exhibition of innovative artist Demond Melancon.Demond Melancon (b. 1978) works solely with a needle and thread to sew glass beads onto canvas. He began this practice in 1992 when he first became part of a more than 200-year-old culture known as the Black Masking Culture of New Orleans. Big Chief Demond Melancon is well known for creating massive Suits as a Black Masker. His Suits are sculptural forms based on the size of his body which are composed of intricate, hand-sewn beadwork revealing a collective visual narrative. In 2017, Melancon pioneered an emerging contemporary art practice using the same beading techniques he’s been refining over the past 30 years in the Black Masking Culture.
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