GUDRUN LOCK
GUEST ARTIST TALK
8.20.26
6pm–7:30pm
Gudrun Lock
Guest Artist Talk
Thursday, August 20
6:00–7:30pm
This forum is free and open to the public; space is limited.
Light beverages provided.
Join Minneapolis-based artist Gudrun Lock at Cruise for an artist lecture on her long-term investigations into rail corridors, aging infrastructures, and urban ecologies, including the Marshall Terrace rookery and life along the Upper Mississippi.
The talk will reflect on her deep commitment to community as a resident of Northeast Minneapolis. Lock’s recent collage works, social practice, and site-specific environmental interventions come together in a multi-layered practice grounded in collaboration. Central to her work is a shared sense of authorship in community that itself becomes an infrastructure, using the city—and Northeast in particular—as a lens that brings into focus competing, intersecting, and shared habitats.
Images from recent projects will be presented as part of the talk to trace connections between fieldwork, research, and exhibition-making.
Artist BioBorn in Berkeley, California, and raised in Montreal, Gudrun Lock has lived and worked in Minneapolis since 1994. A multi-disciplinary artist, she uses collage, social practice, and environmental interventions to explore the effects of development on human and nonhuman communities.
Lock has exhibited across the Twin Cities, including a recent solo exhibition at the Weisman Art Museum. She has received multiple Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage grants, the Andy Warhol Visual Arts Fund, a Canadian Pacific Kansas City Railway Community Engagement grant, and multi-year research support from the University of Minnesota’s Institute on the Environment and its Institute for Advanced Study. She currently holds a five-year artist-in-residence position in an interdisciplinary graduate research program focused on water, energy, and materials circularity in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo-Engineering at the University of Minnesota.