Carlos Basualdo Appointed Director of Nasher Sculpture Center
162April 18, 2025
TheNasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, has announced Carlos Basualdo as its next director, effective May 12. Basualdo, who spent twenty years in various curatorial roles at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA), where he was most recently curator at large, fills the role vacated by Jeremy Strick, whoannounced his departurein November 2023. Strick, who had led the institution since 2009, left his post last June.
The Argentina-born Basualdo joined the PMA in 2005 as a senior curator. He rose to become deputy director as well as the institution’s inaugural chief curator in 2022 before assuming the role of curator at large in 2024 and subsequently going on sabbatical. While at the PMA, Basualdo cocurated Bruce Nauman’s Golden Lion–winning US Pavilion at the 2009 Venice Biennale and mounted major exhibitions including 2021’s “Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror,” a joint exhibition with New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art, where it opened simultaneously, and 2012’s “Dancing Around the Bride: Cage, Cunningham, Johns, Rauschenberg and Duchamp.” From 2000 to 2002, he served as curator of exhibitions at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio. As well, he worked as an independent curator on traveling exhibitions, including “Untitled: The Public Works of Felix Gonzalez-Torres” (1999) and “Tropicalia: A Revolution in Brazilian Culture” (2005).
“We are thrilled to welcome Carlos Basualdo as the next director of the Nasher Sculpture Center,” said David Haemisegger, chair of the Nasher board of trustees, in a statement. “His distinguished career and curatorial achievements align perfectly with our mission to champion the field of sculpture. Carlos’s appointment marks a dynamic new moment for the museum, and we are excited for what lies ahead under his leadership and how he will build on the Nasher’s enduring legacy.”