35. Jeremy Strick, Director, Nasher Sculpture Center: What is Culture? The Impact of George Floyd and a Pandemic & The Golden Age of Sculpture

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.

Prior to the Nasher, Mr. Strick served as Director of The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles, California, for more than nine years. Throughout his tenure, MOCA received international acclaim for its exhibition program, which included such landmark shows as Martin Kippenberger: The Problem Perspective (2008); Marlene Dumas: Measuring Your Own Grave (2008); Andy Warhol Retrospective (2002); Willem de Kooning: Tracing the Figure (2002), among many others.

Mr. Strick also served as a senior curator at the Art Institute of Chicago, and held curatorial posts at the Saint Louis Art Museum and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. He pursued graduate studies in Fine Arts at Harvard University and received his Bachelor of Arts (History of Art) in 1977 from the University of California at Santa Cruz. Additionally, he has curated numerous exhibitions and has written and lectured extensively about modern and contemporary art.

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Host, Earlina Green Hamilton