Nasher Sculpture Center

Using a variety of artistic languages, Halilaj transforms the signs and symbols of innocence into three-dimensional dreamscapes and multi-layered installations incorporating narrative and mythic performances and harness symbolism and fantasy as a force for hope and healing.

The Kosovar artist is known for creating fantastical and immersive spaces that fuse childhood wonder with the personal and political history of his homeland.

📣Announcing the 2027 Nasher Prize Laureate: Petrit Halilaj.

Making use of organic elements that engage senses beyond the visual—prominently including smell, a sense strongly linked to memory—Nkanga brings visitors into an encounter with this living history.

For her Nasher Prize exhibition, Nkanga presents newly conceived iterations of recurring projects, each responding to the North Texas region as a shifting nexus of peoples, cultures, and materials with complexly interwoven histories lived in the present.

NOW OPEN: ‘Otobong Nkanga: Each Seed a Body’🌱

Cecilia Alemani, photo by Liz Ligon; Jed Morse, photo by Kevin Todora

We’re going on the road! Meet us in Dallas this April 🌼

Cecilia Alemani, curator of the upcoming 12th SITE SANTA FE International: Once Within a Time, will be in Dallas for a special Art Talk at the Nasher Sculpture Center with Jed Morse, Nasher Interim Director and Chief Curator

Our staff activates the Sonic Cosmic Rope every hour on the half hour. Museum visitors are invited to experience this activation during their visit to ‘Haegue Yang: Lost Lands and Sunken Fields.’✨

This exhibition is on view through April 27, 2025.

Volume up 🔔 to hear the sounds of Haegue Yang’s ‘Sonic Cosmic Rope – Light Blue Dodecagon Straight Weave’ being activated.

📷: Otobong Nkanga, ‘Loaded tears turned to rock,’ 2023, Hand tufted carpet, Murano glass, wood, ceramic, clay, handmade rope, metal connectors, dimensions variable. ‘Craving for Southern Light,’ 2023, curated by Nuria Enguita, IVAM Centre Julio González, Valencia, 2023.

We are one month away from the opening of our Nasher Prize exhibition featuring the work of 2025 laureate Otobong Nkanga.✨

'Airborne Paper Creatures' take flight as abstracted forms of fauna named for the actions they take: flutterers (birds), swimmers (marine life), and crawlers (insects).

See these sculptures and more in ‘Haegue Yang: Lost Lands and Sunken Fields,’ on view at the Nasher through April 27, 2025.

Haegue Yang's suspended sculpture series titled 'Airborne Paper Creatures - Triple Synecology' (2025) take inspiration from centuries-old kite-making traditions.🪁

This exhibition is on view through April 17, 2025.

📷: Installation view of 'Haegue Yang: Lost Lands and Sunken Fields, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas. February 1-April 27, 2025. Photos by Kevin Todora, courtesy of the artist and Nasher Sculpture Center

‘Haegue Yang: Lost Lands and Sunken Fields’🌊🌾

6) Sheila Hicks ‘Weave Space’
7) Lynda Benglis ‘SB#5’
8) Tony Cragg ‘Eroded Landscape’
9) Haas Brothers ‘Emergent Zoidberg’

Artworks:
1) Dan Lam ‘Subtle Alchemy’
2) Katharina Grosse ‘Untitled’
3) Ann Veronica Janssens ‘Blue, Red, Yellow’
4) Samara Golden ‘if earth is the brain then where is the body’
5) Lita Albuquerque ‘Najma Returns’

Blue? On Bluesky? Groundbreaking.

We want to highlight some of our ~bluest~ artworks over the years. Can you name a few?💙