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Tuesday, 3.15.22

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces ‘Nasher Prize Dialogues: The Uncanny Politics of Objects’

Public panel discussion with leading designers and curators is part of the Nasher Prize’s ongoing series of international public programs

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Photos courtesy of Peter Shire

Tuesday, 10.12.21

2022 Nasher Prize Graduate Symposium: Open Call for Papers

Symposium to address the work of 2022 Nasher Prize Laureate, Nairy Baghramian

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Nairy Baghramian, ‘Sitzengebliebene/ Stay Downers,’ 2017. Polyurethane, lacquered aluminum, silicone. Installation view Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 2017. Photo: Timo Ohle

Tuesday, 9.14.21

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Nairy Baghramian as Winner of the 2022 Nasher Prize

Iranian-born German Artist Receives $100,000 in Recognition of Outstanding Contributions to Sculpture

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Wednesday, 4.7.21

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Nasher Prize Laureate Lecture by Michael Rakowitz

2020/21 Nasher Prize winner takes the virtual stage for a lecture on his artistic practice

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Wednesday, 12.2.20

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Nasher Prize Dialogues— A Conversation with Nasher Prize Laureate Michael Rakowitz and Jin-Ya Huang, Founder of Break Bread, Break Borders

Live, virtual discussion considers the status of food, hospitality, and community-based art during a time of social distancing

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Thursday, 10.1.20

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Nasher Prize Dialogues— Disembodied Intimacy: Digitally Communicating Art, Caregiving, and Sex

Live, virtual panel discussion presented in partnership with Hauser & Wirth to consider role of digital technology during pandemic

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Emmanuel Van Der Auwera, "VideoSculpture XXI (Vegas); 2019

Monday, 9.28.20

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Nasher Prize Programming for Fall and New Award Celebration Date Honoring 2020 Laureate Michael Rakowitz

New and rescheduled events take on virtual format, expand audience reach; new spring 2021 date for award celebration

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Nasher Prize Laureate Michael Rakowitz and artist Jin-Ya Huang

Monday, 10.28.19

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces the 2020 Nasher Prize Graduate Symposium Open Call for Papers

 

Symposium to address the work of 2020 Laureate, Michael Rakowitz; University of North Texas’s Dr. Nada Shabout to moderate

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A group of papier-mache replicas of ancient Iraqi artifacts by artist Michael Rakowitz

Wednesday, 9.4.19

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Michael Rakowitz as Winner of the 2020 Nasher Prize

Chicago Artist Receives $100,000 in Recognition of Outstanding Contributions to Sculpture

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Michael Rakowitz

Tuesday, 9.25.18

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Isa Genzken as Winner of the 2019 Nasher Prize

German Artist Receives $100,000 in Recognition of Outstanding Contributions to Sculpture

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Wednesday, 4.18.18

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Nasher Prize Dialogues: Artists and Authorship: Reference, Relationships and Appropriation in Contemporary Sculptural Practice, presented in partnership with The Common Guild and Glasgow International 2018

Public panel discussion to be held at the Trades Hall of Glasgow, May 2, as part of the Nasher Prize’s ongoing series of international public programs

 

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Fluorescent white simple drawings of men holding weapons on display in a room lit with neon

Friday, 2.2.18

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Nasher Prize Dialogues: Sculpture + History, in partnership with The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, Dallas

Public panel discussion to be held at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza in Dallas, March 6, as part of the Nasher Prize’s ongoing series of international public program

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Picture of The Commons, a statue of a horse whose base has notes contributed by the public, work made by Nasher Prize Nominee Paul Ramirez Jonas

Tuesday, 9.19.17

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Theaster Gates as Winner of the 2018 Nasher Prize

American Artist Receives $100,000 in Recognition of Outstanding Contributions to Sculpture

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Friday, 2.3.17

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Nasher Prize Dialogues: The Public Place of Sculpture, in partnership with Museo Jumex, Mexico City

Public panel discussion to be held at Museo Jumex on March 16 as part of the Nasher Prize’s ongoing series of international public programs 

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Nasher Prize Dialogues, Berlin, Akademie der Künste

Thursday, 10.20.16

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces International Call for Papers for Nasher Prize Graduate Symposium

Symposium will explore themes found in work of 2017 Nasher Prize Laureate, Pierre Huyghe, featuring keynote speaker Nicolas Bourriaud, Director of La Pancée art center, Montpellier, France

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Photo: Paul Green

Monday, 9.26.16

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Pierre Huyghe as Winner of the 2017 Nasher Prize

French Artist Receives $100,000 in Recognition of Outstanding Contributions to Sculpture

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Pierre Huyghe

Monday, 1.25.16

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Installation of Plegaria Muda, a Major Work by Inaugural Nasher Prize Laureate Doris Salcedo

Large-scale piece highlights Salcedo’s powerful commitment to memorializing victims of violence

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Plegaria Muda, Doris Salcedo

Wednesday, 9.30.15

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Doris Salcedo as Inaugural Winner of the Nasher Prize

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Doris Salcedo as Inaugural Winner of the Nasher Prize 

Colombian Sculptor Receives $100,000 in Recognition of Her Outstanding Contributions to the Field

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Wednesday, 9.30.15

Nasher Sculpture Center Anuncia Doris Salcedo Como Ganadora Inaugural del Premio Nasher

Escultora Colombiana Recibe $100,000 en Reconocimiento Por Su Impacto Extraordinario en la Comprensión del Campo de Escultura

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Wednesday, 9.16.15

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Nasher Prize Dialogues, an International Series of Public Programs on Sculpture

 

First public program to be held in London, in association with The Henry Moore Institute and the Institute of Contemporary Arts

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Henry Moore Institute

Monday, 8.24.15

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Major Contributions to Inaugural Nasher Prize

Aston Martin and JPMorgan Chase & Co. Provide Major Financial Support to Co-sponsor Inaugural Nasher Prize

Nasher Sculpture Center Architect Renzo Piano Commissioned by Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger to Design Award Object

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Thursday, 4.2.15

Nasher Sculpture Center Establishes International Nasher Prize for Sculpture

$100,000 Annual Award to Recognize Outstanding Contributions to the Field

Phyllida Barlow, Lynne Cooke, Okwui Enwezor, Yuko Hasegawa, Steven Nash, Alexander Potts, and Nicholas Serota to Serve as Jury for Inaugural Prize
 

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