Building Americana — A Conversation with Hugh Hayden

Program April 3, 2025, 3 p.m.
Wasserman Cinematheque, Brandeis Sachar International Center

Artist Hugh Hayden’s uncanny sculptures and installations draw on American craft and architectural traditions, inviting viewers to reconsider relationships with built and natural environments and the American cultural landscape. Join Hayden in conversation with Dr. Muna Güvenç, Assistant Professor of Fine Arts, Brandeis University, and Dr. Gannit Ankori, Henry and Lois Foster Director and Chief Curator of the Rose Art Museum and Professor of Fine Arts and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Brandeis University as they discuss the intersections between art, architecture, and American mythmaking. 

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Building Americana — A Conversation with Hugh Hayden, 2025. Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University.

 

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Hugh Hayden (b. Dallas, Texas, 1983) lives and works in New York City. He holds an MFA from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell University. Recent solo exhibitions include Boogey Men at the Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, Miami, FL, which traveled to the Blaffer Art Museum, Houston, TX; Hugh Hayden: Creation Myths, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ; and Hugh Hayden, White Columns, New York, NY. Recent group exhibitions include Forest of Dreams: Contemporary Tree Sculpture, Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, MI (2023), and NGV Triennial, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia (2023). Hayden holds positions on advisory councils at Columbia University School of the Arts, Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, and Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning. His work is part of public collections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY, USA; Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, Miami, FL, USA; deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, The Trustees, Lincoln, MA; Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA; Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ; Smart Museum, Chicago, IL and more.

 

This program is held in conjunction with the exhibition Hugh Hayden: Home Work, September 18, 2024–June 1, 2025, and is presented in partnership with the Department of Fine Arts at Brandeis University.