A poet, artist, filmmaker, and activist, Cecilia Vicuña (born 1948, Santiago, Chile; active Chile and New York) has been an active figure in the Latin American avant-garde since the mid-1960s. She has chosen to live outside Chile since 1973, when a military coup ousted the democratically elected …
Postcommodity is an interdisciplinary arts collective comprising three artists—Raven Chacon, Cristóbal Martinez, and Kade L. Twist—who represent diverse cultural traditions and perspectives of three of the First Nations cultures of the North American continent. Postcommodity’s practice is thus …
Founded in 2006, the artist collective Slavs and Tatars reflects on the relationship between Eastern and Western societies while focusing on the geographic “area east of the former Berlin Wall and west of the Great Wall of China, known as Eurasia.” Through the staging of performances, the …
El Anatsui (born 1944, Anyako, Ghana; active Nsukka, Nigeria, and Tema, Ghana) has achieved international acclaim for his distinctive three-dimensional sculptures that repurpose ordinary bottle caps, all from alcoholic beverage containers that he collects from junk depots. From these banal metal …
Goshka Macuga (born 1967, Poland) is a London-based artist who combine the roles of archivist, curator, and scenographer. Macuga has worked in a variety of media over the last decade, from collages and photographs to tapestries and site-specific installations. Many of the artist’s projects begin …
Thomas Hirschhorn (born 1957, Switzerland) subjects banal, quotidian materials to disquieting transformations, creating two-dimensional collages and three-dimensional displays that address some of this period’s most pressing issues, including war, neo-liberalism, and economic disparity. Many of his …
Emre Hüner (born 1977, Turkey) was included in the Princeton University Art Museum’s 2010 exhibition, Nobody’s Property: Art, Land, Space, 2000–2010 . Hüner works across a wide range of media—from video and animation to drawing and sculpture—and weaves together imagery drawn from both popular and …
Alexandra Foradas was appointed Haskell Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art in 2025. Prior to joining the Museum, Foradas was at MASS MoCA, where she curated and co-curated solo exhibitions by artists including Osman Khan (2024), Jason Moran (2022), EJ Hill (2022), Taryn Simon (2018, 2021), and …