Marietta Hoferer received her MFA from the Hochschule der Künste, Berlin, Germany. She has participated in numerous exhibitions, including most recently in "Apparently Invisible: Spring Selections 2009" at The Drawing Center in NYC and the 2009 Incheon International Women Artists' Biennale in Seoul, Korea. Last year she had her first solo exhibition at Galerie Mourlot in Manhattan. This fall she will exhibit her work for the first time at KunstBüroBerlin in Berlin, Germany.  Hoferer has received more than 12 grants and residencies from the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, the Edward Albee Foundation and others.  Hoferer's work can be found in the permanent collections of the Academy Art Museum, Easton, MD, the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard Art Museums, Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany, among others.  Hoferer will discuss the process of her white, transparent and reductive work. She will also talk about building an artist career and the steps she has taken in the highly competitive NYC art world.

Art Forum is a weekly program for undergraduate, graduate students, and the public. The program brings in artists, designers, art historians and art critics from around the world to present their work and ideas in an open forum. It is also a course (ARGS 280, 3 SH). Admission is free.