Film Screening: Kevin Everson’s Lago Gatún

Lago Gatún is a journey traveling south to north through the Panama Canal. (Kevin Jerome Everson,
US, 2021, 59 minutes, 16mm transferred to digital, b&w, sound, no dialogue)

Kevin Jerome Everson (b.1965, Mansfield, Ohio, lives and works in Charlottesville, Virginia) is the Commonwealth and Ruffin Foundation Distinguished Professor of Studio Art and Director of Studio Arts at the University of Virginia. Everson’s art practice encompasses photography, printmaking, sculpture and film. Recipient of the Guggenheim; the Berlin Prize; the Heinz Award in Arts & Humanities; the Alpert Award for Film/Video and the Rome Prize, his work has been the subject of retrospectives and solo exhibitions at The Whitney Museum of American Art, Tate Modern/Film, Highline, NYC, Centre Pompidou, Halle fur Kunst Steiermark, Graz, Andrew Kreps Gallery, Museum of Modern & Contemporary Art Seoul, National Museum of African American History and Culture, and the Harvard Film Archive. His moving image work has been featured at the Whitney Biennial (2008, 2012, 2017), the 2013 Sharjah Biennial, the 2018 Carnegie International, the 2023 Contour Biennial, Mechelen, Belgium and the 2024 Thailand Biennial.