Curator's Talk: Kristen Gaylord, Amon Carter Museum of American Art
2022-08-25 18:00 - 19:30 UTC | Houston Center for Photography
Join the juror of 39th Center Annual, Kristen Gaylord, Ph.D., Associate Curator of Photographs at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, TX, to hear about her current and upcoming curatorial projects. Gaylord has been instrumental in critically examining and reshaping the notion of “American art” explicit in the Carter’s name and mission.

Kristen Gaylord is Associate Curator of Photographs at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, where her work furthers scholarship, preservation, and presentation of the Museum’s extensive photographic holdings. Gaylord spearheaded the acquisition of the museum’s first photographs by Black and Latina women and has organized exhibitions including Stephanie Syjuco: Double Vision and Black Every Day: Photographs from the Carter Collection, both on view now, as well as Thomas Moran’s Mount Superior (2021), Looking In: Photography from the Outside (2019), and Set in Motion: Camille Utterback and Art that Moves (2019). She also served as the curator for the Carter’s presentation of the nationally touring exhibition An-My Lê: On Contested Terrain (2021).
Before joining the Carter in 2018, Gaylord served as the Beaumont & Nancy Newhall Curatorial Fellow in the Department of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, for three years, having previously worked there as a research assistant and a curatorial intern. Concurrently, she was also the inaugural curator of the Duke House Exhibition Series at New York University (NYU). In addition to positions at the Museum of the City of New York and the Willem de Kooning Foundation, Gaylord has taught at Ramapo College of New Jersey, Kingsborough Community College, and NYU. She has written and lectured widely, and holds PhD, MPhil, and MA degrees in art history and archeology from the Institute of Fine Arts (IFA), NYU and a BA from Westmont College.

Artist Talk and Exhibition Walkthrough: Muriel Hasbun, Beyond the Record
2022-09-28 18:30 - 20:00
Join us at the HCP on September 28th at 6:30 PM as artist Muriel Hasbun talks about her practice and guides us through an exhibition walkthrough emphasizing her work in the exhibition Beyond the Record.

Born in El Salvador to a Salvadoran-Palestinian-Christian father and a French-Polish-Jewish mother, Muriel Hasbun addresses migration, displacement, and issues of personal and cultural memory in her work. An artist and professor, she is the recipient of numerous distinctions, including the 2021-22 Estelle Lebowitz Endowed Visiting Artist at Rutgers University, a FY21 AHCMC Artist & Scholar Grant, Trawick and Sondheim Finalist; CENTER Santa Fe’s Producer’s and Curator’s Choice, Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, Howard Chapnick Grant; Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Awards in Photography and Media; U.S. Department of State/AAM Museums Connect grant; Artist in Residences at Chataqua/CU Boulder, Centro Cultural de España, El Salvador, and Escuela de Bellas Artes, Mexico; the Corcoran’s Outstanding Creative Research Faculty Award, and a Fulbright Scholar fellowship.
Hasbun’s work has been internationally exhibited and is in private and public collections: American University Museum, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Centro de la Imagen, Civilian Art Projects, Corcoran Gallery of Art, FotoFest, Lehigh University, Light Work, Maier Museum of Art, Mexican Cultural Institute, Museo del Barrio, Museum of Photographic Art, Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles, Smithsonian American Art Museum, University of Texas-Austin, Whitney Museum of American Art, and the 50th Venice Biennale.
Building upon her career as a socially engaged artist and a photography professor, Hasbun is the founder and director of laberinto projects, a transnational, cultural memory initiative fostering contemporary art practices, social inclusion and dialogue in El Salvador and its U.S. diaspora. Her work is represented by RoFa Projects.
