Artist Lab

Sustaining Yourself as a Visual Artist: Insights from Edgar Arceneaux

Artist Lab Webinar

Tuesday, September 22, 2026, 1-2 PM

Zoom

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Photo Credit: Andrea Katheder

How does a multidisciplinary visual artist support themselves and their practice? Join renowned Los Angeles-based artist Edgar Arceaneaux (2005 Creative Capital Awardee) as he shares best practices for achieving financial sustainability. Audiences will have the opportunity to learn about the infrastructure behind Arceneaux’s own studio and how those forms of support, including but not limited to revenue, nonetheless fuel and fund production. He will also explore how to grow relationships with galleries beyond one show, and how to articulate your own goals and outcomes in that process. Optional, informal exercises are included in this webinar. 

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Photo Credit: Edgar Arceneaux

Edgar Arceneaux

Born in 1972, Los Angeles–based artist Edgar Arceneaux received a BFA from Art Center College of Design and an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. Arceneaux constructs drawings, installations, video works, and films as complex arrangements of association that examine adjacencies and points of contact between seemingly implausible relationships. Arceneaux received the prestigious Mike Kelley Foundation Award in 2019 and the LACE Jackie Apple Award in 2026. Selected 2026 solo and group exhibitions include WE ARE GODS, Vielmetter Los Angeles; Chisel & Razor, Act I: The Artistic Legacies of Edmonia and Samuel Lewis, Tinworks, Bozeman; and SPACE IS THE PLACE, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.