Doris Salcedo, the Colombian artist whose haunting, elegiac work bears witness to the history of violence, has been named the inaugural recipient of the $1 million Nomura Art Award, the largest cash ...
Students and local residents flooded into the Harvard Art Museums’ Menschel Hall on Tuesday to learn about the theme of mourning in Colombian artist Doris Salcedo’s work. Curator of Modern and ...
Artists who are exceptional in theory, mediocre in practice abound: artists who go the other way are rarities. The Colombia-based Doris Salcedo is one such rarity. Her objects and installations ...
The inaugural winner of Dallas’s Nasher Sculpture Center‘s Nasher Prize is Colombian artist Doris Salcedo. Based on her selection by an international jury, Salcedo will be presented with a $100,000 ...
Doris Salcedo is interested in replicating the indefinite, affective qualities of mourning — its weight, intangibility, absurdity, and reliance on personal associations. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — One ...
Installation view of ‘Doris Salcedo’ at the Guggenheim Museum, New York (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) The most important exhibition of the season is quietly taking place in the ...
The contrast between then and now in the fourth floor galleries of Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art couldn’t be more striking. Where the museum most recently displayed, in essence, the overstuffed ...
When Doris Salcedo discovered her talents as a sculptor, she knew that social awareness would be at the center of her work. The Colombian artist has left her mark with her art, becoming an important ...
Colombian artist Doris Salcedo, whose provocative, political statements have honored the victims of violence and repression around the world for three decades, is the winner of the inaugural Nasher ...
The French-born artist Sophie Calle has been awarded the 2024 Praemium Imperiale Award for painting, and the Colombian-born Doris Salcedo the award for sculpture. Both receive a 15 million yen ...
When Colombian artist Doris Salcedo read Hannah Arendt’s 1963 book “On Revolution,” a passage about “civil war raging all over the earth” jumped out at her. It seemed like a strong assertion, ...
“Producing projects capable of honoring the experience of victims of violence requires a large investment in time and organization, sometimes with many collaborators,” Salcedo said in a statement.