Kirsten Swenson
Associate Professor of Art History
Department of Art + Design
kirsten_swenson@uml.edu
Recent Writing
“‘The Last Nonsite’: Nonsite, Site Uncertain, Politics, and Prehistory,” Holt Smithson Foundation (October 2023).
“Michael Heizer’s City: A Visit to a Ruin Being Born,” Art in America (December 2022).
“From Gravel Pits to Sculpture Parks,” Art in America (September, 2022).
Lectures and Symposia
Panel Discussion with Alice Adams at Zürcher Gallery (April 15, 2023)
“Modern Desert Markings: An Homage to Las Vegas Area Land Art” symposium, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (April 6, 2023)
“City Earthworks: Land Art and Redevelopment” at University of Strasbourg, France (March 3, 2023)
“Performing Landscapes,” Metropolis Copenhagen (January 2023).
Recent Grants and Fellowships
Collective Futures Fund Ongoing Platforms Grant (with Rebecca Uchill). Tufts University Art Galleries Re-granting Program of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
ACLS Burkhardt Fellow, Kluge Center, Library of Congress.
Graham Foundation Research Grant
Books
In progress: Kirsten Swenson and Rebecca Uchill, On This Ground: Local Ecologies of Eastern Massachusetts (working title). Under advance contract with Amherst College Press.
In progress: Public Works: Land Art and Urban Redevelopment
Irrational Judgments: Eva Hesse, Sol LeWitt, and 1960s New York (Yale University Press, 2015).
More Essays…
“The City in Pieces: Sol LeWitt’s Manhattan,” in David Areford, ed. Locating Sol LeWitt (Yale University Press, 2021).
“Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Unfinished Works…” in Art in America (June, 2020).
“Circa 1960: Donald Judd and the End of Painting,” in Alex Gartenfeld and Flavin Judd, eds. Donald Judd: Paintings 1959-1961 (Prestel, 2019).