Artist Binh Danh will present the next Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist Lecture on Thursday, March 26 at 5:30 p.m. in Sheldon Art Museum’s Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Danh reimagines traditional photographic techniques to explore history, identity, and place. Known for his contemporary daguerreotypes of national parks, his reflective images invite viewers to see themselves within the American landscape.
His work resides in major collections, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum, National Gallery of Art, SFMOMA, the de Young, and the Asian Art Museum. In 2023, his book “Binh Danh: The Enigma of Belonging” became the first recipient of the Minami Book Grant for Asian American Visual Artists from Radius Books.
He is also an associate professor of art at San José State University.
The remaining lectures in the series are:
• April 9: Kevin Colls. Colls is a professional archaeologist and reader of archaeology working for the Centre of Archaeology based at the University of Huddersfield in the United Kingdom. For 24 years, he has directed and published archaeological projects throughout the United Kingdom and Europe and has widely travelled to sites across the world.
• April 16: Annette Becker. Becker is an arts educator and scholar whose research focuses on fashion history. She serves as the curator and director of the Texas Fashion Collection, an academic fashion archive at the University of North Texas.
• April 30: Sara Jimenez. Jimenez’s work materializes invisible histories and a kaleidoscopic connectedness she has to her ancestors and their land. She works in installation, sculpture, collage, and performance to create visual metaphors through fantastical environments and otherworldly, biomorphic objects. Most of her research and inspiration comes from learning about the landscape and narratives from her genealogical roots in Southeast Asia, the Pacific, and the ancient U.K.
The School of Art, Art History & Design’s Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist & Scholar Lecture Series brings notable artists, scholars and designers to Nebraska each semester to enhance the education of students. The series is presented in collaboration with Sheldon Museum of Art.
Underwritten by the Hixson-Lied Endowment with additional support from other sources, the series enriches the culture of the state by providing a way for Nebraskans to interact with luminaries in the fields of art, art history and design. Each visiting artist or scholar spends one to three days on campus to meet with classes, participate in critiques and give demonstrations.
For more information on the series, contact the School of Art, Art History & Design at (402) 472-5522 or e-mail schoolaahd@unl.edu.