Lucy Molnar Wing Lecture Series presents Sara Cwynar

Join us for the annual Lucy Molnar Wing Lecture titled 'Photographs and Videos' by Sara Cwynar.

Sara Cwynar (b. 1985, Vancouver, Canada) is an internationally renowned New York-based artist. Her work in photography, video, and installation involves archiving and re-presenting accumulated visual materials. This work has been recognized by many prestigious awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship (2025) and the Sobey Art Award (2020). A monograph of Cwynar’s work, entitled Glass Life, was published in 2021 by Aperture with the Remai Modern. Tapping into personal and collective desires, Cwynar explores how visual culture both reflects and shapes notions of beauty, value and truth. Her work reveals an obsessive curiosity about images and latent power dynamics: how and why they are created, how they act, how they multiply, endure and disappear.

Cwynar holds an MFA from Yale University and a BDes from York University. Past projects include a commission for the Performa Biennial, New York (2021), “S/S 23”, Foam Photography Museum, Amsterdam (2023), “Apple Red, Grass Green, Sky Blue,” ICA Los Angeles (2022), “Source,” Remai Modern (2021), “L’Image Volée,” Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy (2016); and “Greater New York,” MoMA PS1, Queens, NY (2015/16). Cwynar’s works are held in the collections of The MoMA, New York, the Centre Pompidou, Paris; MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt; and the National Gallery of Canada, among others. In 2024 and 2025 she presented new solo exhibitions at 52 Walker in New York and ICA Boston.

The Lucy Molnar Wing Lecture Series at the School of Image Arts provides a rare glimpse into the lives and careers of working filmmakers, photographers and new media producers who have developed a name for themselves in the industry.

The lecture series brings celebrated image makers to the Toronto Metropolitan University to give students a chance to learn how they can use their education to realize their career aspirations

Through the generosity of Lucy’s friends and family, lecturers are free and open to the public.

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