The Nasher Prize Graduate Symposium, started in 2017, provides graduate students from around the world with the opportunity to present new scholarship on the work of each year’s laureate. A weeklong virtual event, the symposium is one of the key ways that the Nasher Sculpture Center encourages the creation of new research on the practice of contemporary sculpture.

This year’s symposium will be moderated by Dr. Catherine Craft, curator at the Nasher Sculpture Center. Students selected to present papers will also have their work published in the annual symposium compendium, together with the paper delivered by the keynote speaker, Miwon Kwon, the Walter Hopps Chair in Modern and Contemporary Art, Department of Art History, UCLA.

Agenda

Day 1: Tuesday, January 18
Welcome from Dr. Catherine Craft and Presentation by Inji Kim

• Introductory Remarks by moderator Dr. Catherine Craft
• Inji Kim, University of Washington. "Nairy Baghramian: Stretching Beyond the Material" 

Day 2: Wednesday, January 19
Presentations by India Picton and Camilla Mottola

• India Picton, Central Saint Martins, Granary Square, London. “Becoming Misfits”
• Camilla Mattola, University of Sassari. “Sculpture, bodies, and social conflict. Nairy Baghramian between institutional critique and activism”

Day 3: Thursday, January 20
Presentations by Jana LaBrasca and Frederick Cruz Nowell

• Jana La Brasca, University of Texas at Austin. “Rest, Resistance, Suspension: Nairy Baghramians' Object Lessons”
• Frederick Cruz Nowell, Cornell University. “Nairy Baghramian’s “Misfits” Against a Higher Harmony”

Sponsors

Lisa Dawson and Thomas Maurstad/Lucilo Peña and Lee Cobb are the Graduate Symposium Sponsors of the Nasher Prize

About Nasher Prize

The Nasher Prize is awarded annually to an artist whose body of work has had an extraordinary impact on our understanding of sculpture. Each year’s Nasher Prize laureate is selected by an international jury of esteemed museum directors, curators, scholars, and artists. A full season of diverse programming inspired by the laureate – discussions and lectures, family and student programs, community partnerships, and more – engage thousands of art-lovers in Dallas and far beyond, both in-person and virtually. Then, the celebration culminates with the Nasher Prize Award Gala, held at the Nasher Sculpture Center each April.

Support the Nasher Prize

Proceeds from the Nasher Prize not only benefit Nasher Prize programming but also help sustain the year-round work undertaken by the Nasher Sculpture Center itself, including thought-provoking exhibitions, impactful education and community initiatives, and more. 

Underwriting packages for the Nasher Prize 2022 Award Gala are now available. For more information on how to get involved, please contact the Nasher’s Development Team at 214.242.5151 or at [email protected].