Annual Lecture Series | Holt/Smithson Foundation

Holt/Smithson Foundation Annual Lecture Series is a ten-year program that invites artists, writers, and thinkers to extend the creative legacies of Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson.

Over a course of the next decade, the Foundation will partner with a new institution each year to host lectures in ten distinct locations, each significant to Holt and Smithson.

a crowd at the annual lecture at the Whitney

Anne Wagner giving her lecture on Holt and Smithson at the Whitney Museum of American Art

2022—Anne M. Wagner at the Whitney

In 2022 the Holt/Smithson Foundation Annual Lecture Series launches at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Rebecca Solnit at the 2023 Holt/Smithson Foundation Annual Lecture at the New Mexico Museum of Art

2023—Rebecca Solnit at the New Mexico Museum of Art

In April 2023, the New Mexico Museum of Art hosts the second Annual Lecture, inviting the writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit to think on Nancy Holt.

2024—Renée Green at Utah Museum of Fine Arts

Artist Renée Green is our invited speaker for the third Holt/Smithson Foundation Annual Lecture, which takes place at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City on Friday, September 27, 2024 at 6pm.