Jeremy Strick to Depart as Director of Nasher Sculpture Center

Jeremy Strick, who for the past fifteen years has served as director of the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, will retire from the museum field in June 2024. Strick was only the second director to lead the institution since its founding twenty years ago. He will continue to work there through the spring, overseeing programming including the group show “Groundswell: Women of Land Art.” A replacement will be named following an international search, conducted by the institution’s board. “Jeremy has demonstrated that a museum dedicated to a singular field can be dynamic while advancing scholarship, and experimental while retaining purpose and focus,” said David Haemisegger, chair of the Nasher’s board of trustees, in a statement.RelatedHELEN FRANKENTHALER FOUNDATION SUED FOR “DESTROYING” PAINTER’S LEGACYBMA CREATES PAID INTERNSHIPS HONORING VALERIE MAYNARD “I’ve had a nearly forty-year career in art museums,” Strick told theNew York Times. “And I’ve always kept an informal list of ideas and projects I wanted to pursue independently.

And I thought that now would be a good moment when I still have the time—and, really, the energy—to pursue them.” Citing his passion for working with artists, Strick said that he hoped “to build on some of the relationships and ideas I’ve developed over the years.” Strick arrived to the Nasher in 2009 from the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, where he was director from 1999 to 2008. Prior to his leadership there, he had held various senior curatorial roles at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Saint Louis Art Museum, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. Among his accomplishments at the Dallas museum are the diversification of the museum’s collection, the institution’s elevation of work by women and LGBTQ artists, and, in 2016, the establishment of the $100,000 annual Nasher Sculpture Prize, considered one of the art world’s most prestigious honors..