Art21 Screening: Human Nature

Aug 12, 2026 5PM-6PM

Schermer Meeting Hall

Join us at Anderson Ranch Arts Center for a special screening presented as part of Art21’s Screening Society, a program that brings communities together to experience and discuss contemporary art through film.

This event free and is presented in collaboration with Art21. For more information, visit art21.org. Following the screening, attendees are invited to stay for dinner at our Café for $30 per person. Registration is appreciated.

By providing free access to documentary films about contemporary artists, Screening Society promotes conversation, inspires creative thinking, and broadens engagement with contemporary art.

This screening features “Human Nature,” an Art21 film exploring the work of internationally acclaimed artists: Delcy Morelos, Josh Kline, Lenka Clayton, and Sin Wai Kin. The featured artists examine the central questions surrounding what it means to be human: investigating our impact on the environment and the world around us, probing the social and economic systems that define our daily lives, and discovering how we relate and connect with one another. Through their critical yet hopeful reflections on the shared project of being human, these four artists emphasize our collective power to shape our communities, current realities, and coming futures with themes of environmental stewardship, technology, identity, community through immersive installations, sculpture, video, and speculative storytelling

Presented in partnership with Art21, a celebrated global leader in presenting thought-provoking and sophisticated content about contemporary art, this event offers an opportunity to learn directly from some of the most influential artists working today.

Featured Artists

Delcy Morelos

Delcy Morelos was born in 1967 in Tierralta, Colombia, and lives and works in Bogotá, Colombia. She received her BFA from La Escuela de Bellas Artes de Cartagena in 1991. Using materials drawn from the earth, such as pigment minerals, soil, and plant life, Morelos centers our relationship with the natural world, inviting a sense of harmony and dialogue with the environment around us. Across her paintings, sculptures, and multisensory installations, Morelos’s practice weaves together disparate histories and traditions: from Andean and Amazonian Indigenous cosmologies to the histories of violence and extraction in the Americas, using abstract forms and gestures to convey their impact on humanity and the earth.

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Josh Kline

Josh Kline was born in 1979 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and currently lives in New York City, New York. The artist received his BA from Temple University in 2002. From sculptures of 3D-printed portraits wrapped in recycling bags to videos advocating for Universal Basic Income to installations of temporary housing in the aftermath of a flood, Kline explores the impact of emergent technologies, widening class divides, and the looming threat of climate disaster on contemporary life. His works often present dystopic visions of the near future, where the consequences of political instability, the automation of human labor, and natural disasters have transformed life as we know it, engaging audiences in the project of imagining something better.

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Lenka Clayton

Lenka Clayton was born in 1977 in Cornwall, England, and lives and works in  Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She received her BA from Central Saint Martins College of Art  in 1999 and her MA from the National Film and Television School in 2006. Clayton’s  practice is rooted in a close observation of the world around her, highlighting the myriad  ways we record our lives and relationships, and create moments of magic through  simple gestures and mundane materials. Making films by organizing strangers by age,  creating sculptural installations of dangerous objects made child-safe, or installing  exhibitions in the windows of local businesses, the artist draws inspiration from her  community in Pittsburgh, her family, and the world around her. In doing so, Clayton  creates a body of work that centers on the beauty of the everyday and the power of  human connection.

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Sin Wai Kin

Sin Wai Kin was born in 1991 in Toronto, Canada, and lives and works in London,  United Kingdom. The artist received their BA from Camberwell College of Arts in 2014  and their MA from the Royal College of Art, London in 2017. Drawing on diverse  performance styles, such as drag, boy bands, newscasting, and sitcoms, Sin plays with  genre conventions, narrative structures, and character tropes to reveal the cultural  constructions at the heart of everyday experience. In an ongoing series of  interconnected works, the artist has developed a cast of archetypal characters, each  reflecting distinct relationships to fundamental concepts such as truth, identity, and  change. Sin develops fictional worlds that explore the stories we tell about ourselves  and our society, presenting more fluid possibilities for both.

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