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Opened in 2003, the Nasher Sculpture Center is a

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Dallas Dallas () is the third largest city in Texas and the largest city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 million people. It is the largest city in and seat of Dallas County ...

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, that houses the Patsy and

Raymond Nasher Raymond Nasher (October 26, 1921 – March 16, 2007) was a Boston Latin School (1939) and Duke University alumnus (1943) who was an avid art collector. Together with his wife Patsy, he amassed a substantial number of the world's most renowned s ...

collection of modern and contemporary sculpture. It is located on a site adjacent to the

Dallas Museum of Art The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) is an art museum located in the Arts District of downtown Dallas, Texas, along Woodall Rodgers Freeway between St. Paul and Harwood. In the 1970s, the museum moved from its previous location in Fair Park to the Art ...

in the Dallas Arts District.

Founding

Patsy and

began collecting sculpture in the 1950s. Together they formed a comprehensive collection of masterpieces by Harry Bertoia,

Constantin Brâncuși Constantin Brâncuși (; February 19, 1876 – March 16, 1957) was a Romanian Sculpture, sculptor, painter and photographer who made his career in France. Considered one of the most influential sculptors of the 20th-century and a pioneer of ...

Alexander Calder Alexander Calder (; July 22, 1898 – November 11, 1976) was an American sculptor known both for his innovative mobiles (kinetic sculptures powered by motors or air currents) that embrace chance in their aesthetic, his static "stabiles", and his ...

Raymond Duchamp-Villon Raymond Duchamp-Villon (5 November 1876 – 9 October 1918) was a French sculptor. Life and art Duchamp-Villon was born Pierre-Maurice-Raymond Duchamp in Damville, Eure, in the Normandy region of France, the second son of Eugène and Lucie Duch ...

Paul Gauguin Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (, ; ; 7 June 1848 – 8 May 1903) was a French Post-Impressionist artist. Unappreciated until after his death, Gauguin is now recognized for his experimental use of colour and Synthetist style that were distinct fr ...

Willem de Kooning Willem de Kooning (; ; April 24, 1904 – March 19, 1997) was a Dutch-American abstract expressionist artist. He was born in Rotterdam and moved to the United States in 1926, becoming an American citizen in 1962. In 1943, he married painter El ...

Mark di Suvero Marco Polo di Suvero (born September 18, 1933, in Shanghai, China), better known as Mark di Suvero, is an abstract expressionist sculptor and 2010 National Medal of Arts recipient. Biography Early life and education Marco Polo di Suvero was bor ...

Alberto Giacometti Alberto Giacometti (, , ; 10 October 1901 – 11 January 1966) was a Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker. Beginning in 1922, he lived and worked mainly in Paris but regularly visited his hometown Borgonovo to see his family and ...

Barbara Hepworth Dame Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth (10 January 1903 – 20 May 1975) was an English artist and sculptor. Her work exemplifies Modernism and in particular modern sculpture. Along with artists such as Ben Nicholson and Naum Gabo, Hepworth was a leadi ...

Ellsworth Kelly Ellsworth Kelly (May 31, 1923 – December 27, 2015) was an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker associated with hard-edge painting, Color Field painting and minimalism. His works demonstrate unassuming techniques emphasizing line, c ...

Henri Matisse Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (; 31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French visual artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known prima ...

Joan Miró Joan Miró i Ferrà ( , , ; 20 April 1893 – 25 December 1983) was a Catalan painter, sculptor and ceramicist born in Barcelona. A museum dedicated to his work, the Fundació Joan Miró, was established in his native city of Barcelona i ...

Henry Moore Henry Spencer Moore (30 July 1898 – 31 August 1986) was an English artist. He is best known for his semi- abstract monumental bronze sculptures which are located around the world as public works of art. As well as sculpture, Moore produced ...

Claes Oldenburg Claes Oldenburg (January 28, 1929 – July 18, 2022) was a Swedish-born American sculptor, best known for his public art installations typically featuring large replicas of everyday objects. Another theme in his work is soft sculpture versions ...

Pablo Picasso Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and Scenic design, theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th ce ...

Auguste Rodin François Auguste René Rodin (12 November 184017 November 1917) was a French sculptor, generally considered the founder of modern sculpture. He was schooled traditionally and took a craftsman-like approach to his work. Rodin possessed a uniqu ...

Richard Serra Richard Serra (born November 2, 1938) is an American artist known for his large-scale sculptures made for site-specific landscape, urban, and architectural settings. Serra's sculptures are notable for their material quality and exploration o ...

, and David Smith, among others. In 1997, Raymond Nasher acquired a plot of land in downtown Dallas across the street from the Dallas Museum of Art and hired architect Renzo Piano to design the Nasher Sculpture Center. The Nasher Foundation funded the entire $70 million cost of designing and constructing the museum, which includes indoor and outdoor galleries. The Sculpture Center opened in 2003 and features a regularly changing exhibition of works from the Raymond and Patsy Nasher Collection. By placing the facility on what was formerly part of the old Caruth family farm of circa 1850, Ray Nasher began the realization of the Arts District in Dallas, which has since been enhanced by the construction of the

Winspear Opera House The Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House is an opera house (one of four venues in the AT&T Performing Arts Center) located in the Arts District of downtown Dallas, Texas (USA). Designed as a 21st-century reinterpretation of the traditional op ...

and the Wyly Theater.

Architecture and garden

Renzo Piano Renzo Piano (; born 14 September 1937) is an Italian architect. His notable buildings include the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris (with Richard Rogers, 1977), The Shard in London (2012), the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City (20 ...

, winner of the

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in 1998, is the architect of the Center's building; he had been selected after Nasher met him at the opening of the

Beyeler Foundation The Beyeler Foundation or Fondation Beyeler with its museum in Riehen, near Basel (Switzerland), owns and oversees the art collection of Hildy and Ernst Beyeler, which features modern and traditional art. The Beyeler Foundation museum includes a s ...

in Basel, Switzerland, in 1997. Piano has designed several critically acclaimed art museums; foremost among them are the Beyeler Museum in Basel, the Menil Collection in Houston, and Georges Pompidou Centre in Paris (in collaboration with Richard Rogers). He has been praised as an architect who has the genius to meld art, architecture, and advanced engineering to create some of the most remarkable museums in the world. Piano worked in collaboration with landscape architect Peter Walker of PWP Landscape Architecture on the design of the Garden. Walker has exerted a significant impact on the field of landscape architecture over a four-decade career. The scope of Walker's landscape projects is expansive and varied. It ranges from small gardens to new cities, corporate headquarters and academic campuses to urban plazas. The building was constructed by

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, which also served as associate architect. The facility opened in 2003 in a 55,000-square-foot building on a 2.4-acre site adjacent to the Dallas Museum of Art. Reflective glare of the nearby Museum Tower, constructed in 2012, comes in through the glass roof, putting portions of the collection at risk of damage. Artist

James Turrell James Turrell (born May 6, 1943) is an American artist known for his work within the Light and Space movement. Much of Turrell's career has been devoted to a still-unfinished work, ''Roden Crater'', a natural cinder cone crater located outside ...

considered his work ''Tending (Blue)'' to be effectively destroyed by the tower's intrusion on its view, and the museum closed the artwork's chamber to the public at his request. The museum has two levels: the ground level houses four galleries, institute offices, and a boardroom. The garden terraces downward to the auditorium, creating an open-air theater.

Program

The Nasher Sculpture Center features rotating exhibitions drawn from the Nasher Collection as well as special exhibitions in its indoor and outdoor galleries. Among the major exhibitions organized by the Nasher are Matisse: Painter as Sculptor, the first Matisse sculpture retrospective in the U.S. in 20 years; Tony Cragg: Seeing Things, the first major U.S. museum exhibition of the artist in 20 years; and Variable States: Intention, Appearance, and Interpretation in Modern Sculpture, an exhibition and symposium on sculpture conservation organized in conjunction with the Getty. The Nasher Sculpture Center has also presented Jaume Plensa: Genus and Species; Alexander Calder and Contemporary Art: Form, Balance, Joy; and Ken Price Sculpture: A Retrospective. Monthly events include ''Target First Saturdays'' for children and families, ''Til Midnight'' featuring

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, twilight strolls, bands and movies, and the ''NasherSalon'' series which welcomes distinguished speakers for an evening of discourse on art, architecture, and other cultural topics of interest. The Nasher Sculpture Center also participates in the Block Party Series together with the Dallas Museum of Art, the Crow Museum of Asian Art, and others in the Dallas Arts District.

360 Speaker Series: Artists, Critics, Curators

* 2016 Speakers

Ann Veronica Janssens Ann Veronica Janssens is a Belgian contemporary visual artist born in 1956 in Folkestone, United Kingdom. She lives and works in Brussels, Belgium. Her work is an invitation to ephemeral experiences, which are at times delirious or vertiginou ...

Piero Golia Piero Golia (born 1974) is a conceptual artist based in Los Angeles. Background As a young man in Naples, Golia studied chemical engineering, learning about the transformation of raw materials into powerful energy sources. He arrived in Los Ang ...

with Ann Goldstein / Mai-Thu Perret /

Martha Thorne Martha Thorne is an American architectural academic, curator, editor, and author. She is the Executive Director of the Pritzker Architecture Prize and Dean in the architecture school at IE University in Madrid. Formerly, she was a curator in arc ...

/ Agents, Advisors, Devils and Apostates: A New Art World, Panel Discussion / Plaster: Medium and Process, Panel Discussion / Kathryn Andrews / Michael Dean /

Rachel Rose Rachel Rose (born September 20, 1970) is a Canadian/American poet, essayist and short story writer. She has published three collections of poetry, ''Giving My Body to Science'', ''Notes on Arrival and Departure'', and ''Song and Spectacle''. Her ...

* 2015 Speakers

Melvin Edwards Melvin "Mel" Edwards (born May 4, 1937) Samella S. Lewis, ''African American Art and Artists'', University of California Press, 2003, p. 210. Lisa S. Weitzman"Edwards, Melvin 1937–" encyclopedia.com. is an American contemporary artist, teacher, ...

/ Stories from the French Sculpture Census / Iván Navarro / Jonathan Hammer /

Phyllida Barlow Dame Phyllida Barlow (born 4 April 1944) is a British artist. She studied at Chelsea College of Art (1960–63) and the Slade School of Art (1963–66). She joined the staff of the Slade in the late 1960s and taught there for more than forty y ...

with Tyler Green / Philip Beesley /

Giuseppe Penone Giuseppe Penone (born 3 April 1947, Garessio) is an Italian artist and sculptor, known for his large-scale sculptures of trees that are interested in the link between man and the natural world.

/ Alex Israel /

Edmund de Waal Edmund Arthur Lowndes de Waal, (born 10 September 1964) is a contemporary English artist, master potter and author. He is known for his large-scale installations of porcelain vessels often created in response to collections and archives or th ...

* 2014 Speakers

Thomas Heatherwick Thomas Alexander Heatherwick, (born 17 February 1970) is an English designer and the founder of London-based design practice Heatherwick Studio. He works with a team of around 200 architects, designers and makers from a studio and workshop in ...

/ Anna-Bella Papp / Sarah Thorton / Tony Tasset / David Bates / Not Vital /

Bettina Pousttchi Bettina Pousttchi (born 1971) is a German artist. She currently lives in Berlin. She has worked in photography, sculpture, video and site-specific installation. Life In 1990-1992, she studied fine art at the Université de Paris. Then in 1 ...

Mark Grotjahn Mark Grotjahn (born 1968) is an American painter best known for abstract work and bold geometric paintings. Grotjahn lives and works in Los Angeles. Early life and education Grotjahn was born in Pasadena, but grew up in the Bay Area.Arcy Douglas ...

/ Tod Lippy /

Liz Glynn Liz Glynn (born 1981) is an American artist. She is originally from Boston and now works out of Los Angeles. Much of her work is sculptural and installation-based, incorporating found objects and materials. Her work deals with institutional cri ...

* 2013 Speakers

Mark Dion Mark Dion (born August 28, 1961) is an American conceptual artist best known for his use of scientific presentations in his installations. His work examines the manner in which prevalent ideologies and institutions influence our understanding ...

/ Ken Price Sculpture Panel / Heather Cook /

Matthew Collings Matthew Collings (born 1955) is a British art critic, writer, broadcaster, and artist. He is married to Emma Biggs, with whom he collaborates on art works. Education Born in London in 1955, Collings studied at Byam Shaw School of Art, and Goldsmi ...

Nathan Mabry Nathan Mabry (born 1978) is an artist based in Los Angeles. Mabry was born in Colorado. His work is a mixture of primitive sculpture and Minimalist-style art. He references the work of artists such as Sol LeWitt, John McCracken and Carl Andre ...

Liz Larner Liz Larner (born 1960, Sacramento, California, United States) is an American installation artist and sculptor living and working in Los Angeles. Early life and education Larner was born in Sacramento, California in 1960. In 1985, she received a Ba ...

/ Katharina Grosse / Lewis Kachur / Analia Saban / Return to Earth Symposium / Nasher XChange Panel / Make Art with Purpose Panel / Charles Long with Tyler Green * 2012 Speakers

Elliott Hundley Elliott Hundley (born 1975 in Greensboro, North Carolina) is an American artist, living and working in Los Angeles. Hundley earned an MFA in the Department of Painting and Drawing at the University of California, Los Angeles in 2005, with a 1997 ...

/ Tony Feher /

Trenton Doyle Hancock Trenton Doyle Hancock (born 1974) is an American artist working with prints, drawings, and collaged-felt paintings. Through his work, Hancock mainly aims to tell the story of the Mounds, mystical creatures that are part of the artist's world. ...

/ Erick Swenson /

Ernesto Neto Ernesto Saboia de Albuquerque Neto (born 1964, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a contemporary visual artist. Early career Ernesto Neto began exhibiting in Scotland in 1988 and has had solo exhibitions abroad since 1995. He represented with Vik M ...

/ Joseph Havel / The Art Guys / Kathryn Andrews /

Lawrence Weiner Lawrence Charles Weiner (February 10, 1942December 2, 2021) was an American conceptual artist. He was one of the central figures in the formation of conceptual art in the 1960s. His work often took the form of typographic texts, a form of word a ...

/ Catherine Craft /

Eva Rothschild Eva Rothschild RA (born 1971) is an Irish artist based in London. Eva Rothschild was born in Dublin, Ireland. She received a BA in Fine Art from the University of Ulster, Belfast (1990–93), and an MA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths College, Londo ...

* 2011 Speakers Charles Renfro / Jessica Holmes/

Alfredo Jaar Alfredo Jaar (; ; born 1956) is a Chilean-born artist, architect, photographer and filmmaker who lives in New York City. He is mostly known as an installation artist, often incorporating photography and covering socio-political issues and war—t ...

/ A Conversation on Statuesque / Charles Long / Aaron Curry and

Thomas Houseago Thomas Houseago is a British contemporary artist. He lives in Los Angeles, California, and also has American citizenship. Much of his work has been figurative sculpture, often on a large scale, in plaster, bronze or aluminium; his large plaster ...

/ Annette Lawrence / Heather Rowe /

Tony Cragg Sir Anthony Douglas Cragg (born Liverpool 9 April 1949) is an Anglo-German sculptor, resident in Wuppertal, Germany since 1977. Early life and training Tony Cragg was born in Liverpool."Tony Cragg." ''Contemporary Artists''. Farmington Hills, ...

Diana Al-Hadid Diana al-Hadid (born 1981) is a Syrian-born American contemporary artist who creates sculptures, installations, and drawings using various media. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Early life and education Al-Hadid was born in Aleppo, ...

/ Lawrence Weschler/ Dore Ashton with Michael Corris * 2010 Speakers

Michael Craig-Martin Sir Michael Craig-Martin (born 28 August 1941) is an Irish-born contemporary art, contemporary conceptual artist and painter. He is known for fostering and adopting the Young British Artists, many of whom he taught, and for his conceptual artw ...

/ Adam Silverman and Nader Tehrani / William Jeffett / Allegra Pesenti / Linda Ridgway / Evan Holloway / Rick Lowe / Richard R. Brettell and Joachim Pissarro /

Michael Corris Michael Corris is an artist, art historian and writer on art. He is Professor Emeritus of Art, Division of Art, Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, United States. Previously, Corris held the post of Profes ...

Antony Gormley Sir Antony Mark David Gormley (born 30 August 1950) is a British sculptor. His works include the ''Angel of the North'', a public sculpture in Gateshead in the north of England, commissioned in 1994 and erected in February 1998; ''Another Pla ...

and Contemporary Art Panel

Exhibitions

* ''

Lynda Benglis Lynda Benglis (born October 25, 1941) is an American sculptor and visual artist known especially for her wax paintings and poured latex sculptures. She maintains residences in New York City, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Kastellorizo, Greece, and Ahmedaba ...

'': May 21, 2022 - September 18, 2022 * ''Magali Reus: A Sentence in Soil'': May 14, 2022 - October 9, 2022 * '' Harry Bertoia: Sculpting Mid-Century Modern Life'': January 29, 2022 – April 24, 2022 * ''

Carol Bove Carol Bove (born 1971) is an American artist based in New York City. She lives and works in Brooklyn. Early life and education Born in 1971 in Geneva, Switzerland to American parents, Bove (pronounced bo-VAY) was raised in Berkeley, California, ...

: Collage Sculptures'': October 16, 2021 – January 9, 2022 * ''

Betye Saar Betye Irene Saar (born July 30, 1926) is an African-American artist known for her work in the medium of assemblage. Saar is a visual storyteller and an accomplished printmaker. Saar was a part of the Black Arts Movement in the 1970s, which eng ...

: Call and Response'': September 25, 2021 – January 2, 2022 * ''

Guerrilla Girls Guerrilla Girls is an anonymous group of feminist, female artists devoted to fighting sexism and racism within the art world. The group formed in New York City in 1985 with the mission of bringing gender and racial inequality into focus within t ...

: Takeover'': May 12, 2021 – October 25, 2021 * ''Nasher Mixtape'': February 6, 2021 – September 26, 2021 * ''

Barry X Ball Barry X Ball (born 1955, Pasadena) is an American sculptor who lives and works in New York City. His work has been widely exhibited internationally over the last 30 years and is represented in many public and private collections. His work has be ...

: Remaking Sculpture'': January 25, 2020 – January 3, 2021 * ''

Elmgreen & Dragset Michael Elmgreen (born 1961; Copenhagen, Denmark) and Ingar Dragset (born 1969; Trondheim, Norway) have worked together as an artist duo since 1995. Their work explores the relationship between art, architecture and design. Elmgreen & Dragset liv ...

: Sculptures'': September 14, 2019 – January 5, 2020 * ''

Sheila Hicks Sheila Hicks (born 1934) is an American artist. She is known for her innovative and experimental weavings and sculptural textile art that incorporate distinctive colors, natural materials, and personal narratives. Since 1964, she has lived and ...

'': May 11, 2019 – August 18, 2019 * ''

Sterling Ruby Sterling Ruby (born January 21, 1972) is an American artist who works in a large variety of media including ceramics, painting, drawing, collage, sculpture, video, and textiles. Often, his work is presented in large and densely packed installatio ...

: Sculpture'': February 2, 2019 – April 21, 2019 * ''The Nature of Arp'': September 15, 2018 – January 6, 2019 * ''First Sculpture: Handaxe to Figure Stone'': January 27, 2018 – April 28, 2018 * ''

Tom Sachs Tom Sachs (born July 26, 1966) is an American contemporary artist who lives and works in New York City. Life and early career Sachs was born in New York City on July 26, 1966. He grew up in Westport, Connecticut, attending high school at Green ...

: Tea Ceremony'': September 16, 2017 – January 7, 2018 * ''

Roni Horn Roni Horn (born September 25, 1955) is an American visual artist and writer. The granddaughter of Eastern European immigrants, she was born in New York City, where she lives and works. She is currently represented by Xavier Hufkens in Brussels an ...

'': May 20, 2017 – August 20, 2017 * ''

: Prints'': January 28, 2017 – April 30, 2017 * ''Sightings: Michael Dean'': October 22, 2016 – February 5, 2017 * ''Kathryn Andrews: Run for President'': September 10, 2016 – January 8, 2017 *

Joel Shapiro Joel Shapiro (born September 27, 1941 New York City, New York) is an American sculptor renowned for his dynamic work composed of simple rectangular shapes. The artist is classified as a Minimalist as demonstrated in his works, which were mostly ...

: May 7, 2016 – August 21, 2016 * ''Doris Salcedo: Plegaria Muda'': February 27, 2016 – April 17, 2016 * ''Sightings: Mai-Thu Perret'': March 12, 2016 – July 17, 2016 * ''

'': January 23, 2016—April 17, 2016 * ''Sightings:

Alex Israel Alex Israel (born October 1982) is an American multimedia artist, writer, and eyewear designer from Los Angeles. His work includes large, colorful airbrushed paintings of abstract gradients and Los Angeles skies, his self-portraits, painted on ...

'': October 24, 2015 — January 31, 2016 * ''

: Chalet Dallas'': October 3, 2015 — February 7, 2016 * ''

: Being the River, Repeating the Forest'': September 19, 2015—January 10, 2016 * ''

tryst'': May 30, 2015—August 30, 2015 * ''

: Five Decades'': January 31, 2015 – May 10, 2015 * ''Sightings: Anna-Bella Papp'': October 24, 2014 – January 18, 2015 * ''Provocations: The Architecture and Design of

Heatherwick Studio Thomas Alexander Heatherwick, (born 17 February 1970) is an English designer and the founder of London-based design practice Heatherwick Studio. He works with a team of around 200 architects, designers and makers from a studio and workshop in ...

'': September 13, 2014 – January 4, 2015 * ''

Sculpture'': May 31, 2014 – August 17, 2014 *''Sightings:

'': April 12, 2014 – August 17, 2014 *''David Bates'': February 9, 2014 – May 11, 2014 * ''Return to Earth'': September 21, 2013 – January 19, 2014 * ''Katharina Grosse: WUNDERBLOCK'': June 1, 2013 – September 1, 2013 * '' Ken Price: A Retrospective'': February 9, 2013 – May 12, 2013 * ''Rediscoveries: Modes of Making in Modern Sculpture'': September 29, 2012 – January 13, 2013 * ''Sculpture in So Many Words: Text Pieces 1960–1980'': September 29, 2012 – January 13, 2013 * ''

: Cuddle on the Tightrope'': May 12, 2012 – September 9, 2012 * ''Sightings: Eric Swenson'': April 14, 2012 – September 9, 2012 * ''Sightings:

'': October 22, 2011 – January 15, 2012 * '' Elliot Hundley: The Bacchae'': January 28, 2012 – April 22, 2012 * ''

: Seeing Things'': September 10, 2011 – January 8, 2012 * ''Sightings:

Martin Creed Martin Creed (born 21 October 1968) is a British artist, composer and performer. He won the Turner Prize in 2001 for exhibitions during the preceding year, with the jury praising his audacity for exhibiting a single installation, '' Work No. 2 ...

'': March 26, 2011 – August 21, 2011 * ''

and Contemporary Art: Form, Balance, Joy'': December 11, 2010 – March 6, 2011 * ''Sightings: Alyson Shotz'': October 1, 2010 – January 2, 2011 * ''Revelation: The Art of James Magee'': September 4 – November 28, 2010 * ''Rachel Whiteread Drawings'': May 22 – August 15, 2010 * ''

Jaume Plensa Jaume Plensa i Suñé (; born 23 August 1955) is a Spanish visual artist, sculptor, designer and engraver. He is a versatile artist who has also created opera sets, video projections and acoustic installations. He worked with renowned Catalan th ...

: Genus and Species'': January 30 – May 2, 2010 * ''The Art of Architecture:

Foster + Partners Foster + Partners is a British architectural, engineering, and integrated design practice founded in 1967 as Foster Associates by Norman Foster. It is the largest architectural firm in the UK with over 1,500 employees in 13 studios worldwide. ...

'': September 26, 2009 – January 10, 2010 * ''

George Segal George Segal Jr. (February 13, 1934 – March 23, 2021) was an American actor. He became popular in the 1960s and 1970s for playing both dramatic and comedic roles. After first rising to prominence with roles in acclaimed films such as ''Ship o ...

: Street Scenes'': January 24 – April 5, 2009 * ''In Pursuit of the Masters: Stories from the Raymond and Patsy Nasher Collection'': September 20, 2008 – January 4, 2009 * ''

Jacques Lipchitz Jacques Lipchitz (26 May 1973) was a Cubist sculptor. Lipchitz retained highly figurative and legible components in his work leading up to 1915–16, after which naturalist and descriptive elements were muted, dominated by a synthetic style of Cr ...

: A Gift from the Artist's Estate'': June 21 – September 7, 2008 * ''Beyond the Grasp: Sculpture Transcending the Physical'': March 15 – August 31, 2008 * ''Woman: The Art of

Gaston Lachaise Gaston Lachaise (March 19, 1882 – October 18, 1935) was a French-born sculptor, active in the early 20th century. A native of Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 re ...

'': November 17, 2007 – February 17, 2008 * ''

Matisse Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (; 31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French visual artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known prima ...

: Painter as Sculptor'': January 21 – April 29, 2007 * ''On Tour with

Building Workshop: Selected Projects'': May 13 – August 213, 2006 * ''The Women of

Giacometti Alberto Giacometti (, , ; 10 October 1901 – 11 January 1966) was a Swiss sculptor, painter, Drafter, draftsman and Printmaking, printmaker. Beginning in 1922, he lived and worked mainly in Paris but regularly visited his hometown Borgonovo, ...

'': January 14 – April 19, 2006 * '' David Smith: Drawing + Sculpting'': April 16 – July 17, 2005 * ''

Frank Stella Frank Philip Stella (born May 12, 1936) is an American painter, sculptor and printmaker, noted for his work in the areas of minimalism and post-painterly abstraction. Stella lives and works in New York City. Biography Frank Stella was born in M ...

: Painting in Three Dimensions'': January 8 – April 3, 2005 * ''Bodies Past and Present: The Figurative Tradition in the Nasher Collection'': September 18, 2004 – August 2005 * ''Variable States: Three Masterworks of Modern Sculpture'': September 18, 2004 – January 2, 2005 * ''

Medardo Rosso Medardo Rosso (; 21 June 1858 – 31 March 1928) was an Italian sculptor. He is considered, like his contemporary and admirer Auguste Rodin, to be an artist working in a post-Impressionist style. Biography and works Rosso was born in Turin, w ...

: Second Impressions'': April 3 – June 20, 2004 * ''

Picasso Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and Scenic design, theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th ce ...

: The Cubist Portraits of Fernande Olivier'': February 15 – May 9, 2004 * ''From

Rodin François Auguste René Rodin (12 November 184017 November 1917) was a French sculptor, generally considered the founder of modern sculpture. He was schooled traditionally and took a craftsman-like approach to his work. Rodin possessed a uniqu ...

to Calder: Masterworks of Modern Sculpture from the Nasher Collection'': October 20, 2003 – August 22, 2004

Nasher XChange

To celebrate its 10th anniversary, the Nasher Sculpture Center presented Nasher XChange from October 19, 2013 to February 16, 2014. Nasher Sculpture Center Director Jeremy Strick stated that ''Nasher XChange'' focused on public art, which engages the people and culture of Dallas. The Nasher XChange exhibition was made possible in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, Art Works, and a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts. * ''Nasher XChange: Moore to the Point'': October 19, 2013 – February 16, 2014 * ''Nasher XChange: CURTAINS'': October 19, 2013 – February 16, 2014 * ''Nasher XChange: Buried House'': October 19, 2013 – February 16, 2014 * ''Nasher XChange: X'': October 19, 2013 – February 16, 2014 * ''Nasher XChange: Fountainhead'': October 19, 2013 – February 16, 2014 * ''Nasher XChange: Trans.lation'': October 19, 2013 – February 16, 2014 * ''Nasher XChange: Black & Blue: Cultural Oasis in the Hills'': October 19, 2013 – February 16, 2014 * ''Nasher XChange: dear sunset'': October 19, 2013 – February 16, 2014 * ''Nasher XChange: Flock in Space'': October 19, 2013 – February 16, 2014 * ''Nasher XChange: Music (Everything I know I learned the day my son was born)'': October 19, 2013 – February 16, 2014 * ''Nasher XChange: Through the Eyes of Allison V. Smith'': October 19, 2013 – February 16, 2014

Nasher Prize

The Nasher Prize was established in April 2015. The award is dedicated exclusively to a living artist who has proven excellence in contemporary sculpture. * (2016) –

Doris Salcedo Doris Salcedo (b. 1958) is a Colombian-born visual artist and sculptor."Doris Salcedo"
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Doris Salcedo was born in 1958 in Bogotá, Colombia, her current residence. Salcedo has created sculptures and installations that transform familiar, everyday objects into moving and powerful testimonies of loss and remembrance. * (2017) –

Pierre Huyghe Pierre Huyghe (born 11 September 1962) is a French artist who works in a variety of media from films and sculptures to public interventions and living systems. Education Pierre Huyghe (pronounced ''hweeg'') was born in Paris in 1962. He lives ...

Huyghe was born in 1962 in Paris, he lives and works in Chile and New York. Huyghe has profoundly expanded the parameters of sculpture through artworks encompassing a variety of materials and disciplines, bringing music, cinema, and dance into contact with biology and philosophy and incorporating time-based elements as diverse as fog, ice, parades, rituals, automata, computer programs, games, dogs, bees, and microorganisms. * (2018) –

Theaster Gates Theaster Gates (born August 28, 1973) is an American social practice installation artist and a professor in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Chicago. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, where he still lives and works. Gates' wo ...

Gates was born in 1973 in Chicago, Illinois, where he continues to live and work as a professor at the University of Chicago. His work explores the material aspects of memory, history, and place. * (2019) –

Isa Genzken Isa Genzken (born 27 November 1948) is a German artist who lives and works in Berlin. Her primary media are sculpture and installation, using a wide variety of materials, including concrete, plaster, wood and textile. She also works with photograp ...

Genzken was born in 1948 in Germany. Genzken has continually reinvented the language of sculpture by creating objects inspired by popular culture and historical events that explore the complexities of contemporary realism. * (2020–2021) – Michael Rakowitz Rakowitz was born in 1973 in Long Island, New York. He is Iraqi-American and much of his work explores his identity as an American artist of Iraqi Jewish descent. His work explores the complex history between the US and Middle East, as well as cultural heritage and humanitarian crisis. * (2022) –

Nairy Baghramian Nairy Baghramian (born 1971) is an Iranian-born German visual artist. Since 1984, she has lived and worked in Berlin. When the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum selected Baghramian as a finalist for the 2020 Hugo Boss Prize, they described Baghram ...

Baghramian, born 1971, is an Iranian-born German visual artist. Baghramian takes the creation and presentation of sculpture as her de facto subject yet makes works highlighting the poignant, contradictory, and sometimes humorous circumstances that can suffuse both the artistic process as well as everyday life. Over the past three decades, she has explored elements of sculptural practice and installation to create works that challenge their settings and upend expected modes of presentation as well as the architectural, sociological, political, and historical contexts that inform them. * (2023) –

Senga Nengudi Senga Nengudi (née Sue Irons; born September 18, 1943) is an African-American visual artist and curator. She is best known for her abstract sculptures that combine found objects and choreographed performance. She is part of a group of African-A ...

Nengudi was born in 1943 in

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and is known for works exploring the body, as well as for combining sculpture and performance. Nengudi rose to prominence among the Black avant-garde of the 1970s and 80s.

Key people

Nasher Sculpture Center Board of Trustees

*Mr. David Haemisegger, President *Mr. Stephen Stamas, Chairman *Mr. Elliot Cattarulla *Ms. Nancy Nasher Haemisegger *Mr. John G. Heimann *Dr. William Jordan *Dr. Steven A. Nash *Ms. Andrea Nasher *Mr. Jeremy Strick

The Director

*Jeremy Strick, Director Jeremy Strick has been the Director of the Nasher Sculpture Center since March 2009. Mr. Strick oversees collections, exhibitions, and operations at the 2.4 acre museum located in the heart of downtown Dallas’ Arts District.

Curators

*Jed Morse, Chief Curator *Catherine Craft, Curator *Leigh Arnold, Assistant Curator

Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger

David J. Haemisegger and Nancy A. Nasher serve on the Board of Directors of the Nasher Sculpture Center, a museum founded in 2003 by Nancy's father, Raymond D. Nasher, which houses the Raymond D. and Patsy R. Nasher Collection of Modern and Contemporary Sculpture. Nancy worked closely with her father on the creation and development of the Sculpture Center. David currently serves as President of the Nasher Sculpture Center, and is on the Finance and Audit Committees. David and Nancy serve on the Nasher Foundation Board.

References

External links

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ArchitectureWeek: article about the Nasher Sculpture Center design
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