Laureate Lecture: Nairy Baghramian

2022 Nasher Prize Dialogues

Learn from the 2022 Nasher Prize Laureate Nairy Baghramian as she talks about her practice. On April 1, 2022, Baghramian joined Nasher Curator Dr. Catherine Craft in conversation to present her Laureate Lecture.

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About Nairy Baghramian

Nairy Baghramian is a German citizen born in 1971 in Iran. She is a visual artist living and working in Berlin since 1984. Her work has been the subject of monographic exhibitions in an array of institutions, including GAM, Galleria d'arte Moderna, Milan (2021), MUDAM, Luxembourg (2019); Festival d’ Automne á Paris at École des Beaux-Arts (2018); Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid (2018); SMK, Copenhagen (2017); Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2016); S.M.A.K, Ghent (2016); Museo Tamayo, Mexico City (2015); Museo Serralves, Porto (2014); the Art Institute of Chicago (2014); Serpentine Gallery with Phyllida Barlow (2010); Studio Voltaire London (2009); Kunsthalle Basel (2006). Baghramian also participated at Venice Biennale (2019 and 2011); Yorkshire Sculpture International (2019); Documenta 14 in Kassel and Athens (2017), Skulptur Project Muenster (2017 and 2007); Lyon Biennale (2017); Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, Scotland (2012); and the Berlin Biennale, Germany (2014 and 2008). Baghramian was a nominee of the Hugo Boss Prize 2020 and has been the recipient of the Malcolm-McLaren-Award with Maria Hassabi (2019); the Zurich Art Prize (2016); the Arnold-Bode Prize, Kassel (2014); the Hector Prize, Kunsthalle Mannheim (2012); and the Ernst Schering Foundation Award (2007). Her works are held in institutional collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; San Francisco, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Tate Modern, London; MUDAM, Luxembourg; Tamayo Museum, Mexico City; Jumex Museum, Mexico City; and the Art Institute Chicago. Upcoming solo exhibitions of Nairy Baghramian include Secession, Vienna AT, 2021; and Carré d’Art, Nîmes, France, April 2022. Baghramian will be the subject of a long-planned solo exhibition at the Nasher Sculpture Center, unaffiliated with the Nasher Prize, in fall 2022.


Sponsors

2022 NASHER PRIZE CHAIRS / Nancy Carlson and Adriana Perales

NASHER PRIZE MONTH SPONSOR / Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger

JURY SPONSOR / The Eugene McDermott Foundation 

EDUCATION & COMMUNITY PROGRAMS SPONSORS / The Donna Wilhelm Family Fund and Gagosian 

PRESENTING MEDIA PARTNER / The Dallas Morning News

WINE SPONSOR / Green Family Art Foundation 

OFFICIAL HOTEL PARTNER / HALL Arts Hotel Dallas / HALL Arts Residences 

DIALOGUES SPONSORS / Bowdon Family Foundation, Michael Corman and Kevin Fink, Hartland and Mackie Family, Marian Goodman Gallery, Janelle and Alden Pinnell / The Pinnell Foundation, Stephen Friedman Gallery, and Patricia J. Villareal and Thomas S. Leatherbury 

GRADUATE SYMPOSIUM SPONSORS / Lisa Dawson and Thomas Maurstad / Lucilo Peña and Lee Cobb and Locke Lord LLP 

DIALOGUES MEDIA PARTNER / Wallpaper*  

MEDIA PARTNERS / KERA’s Art and Seek and PaperCity 

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