Core Program Lecture | Selby Nimrod
Selby Nimrod
April 9, 2025
This installment of the 2024–2025 Core Program Lecture Series features Selby Nimrod, director of exhibitions and commons at MIT’s School of Architecture + Planning. She discusses her work at the institution’s List Visual Arts Center, new directions in her practice, and collaborating with architects, urbanists, designers, and artists.
Plan Your Visit
- Core Program lectures are open to the public. Admission is free.
- This event takes place in Favrot Auditorium at the Glassell School of Art. Seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis.
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About the Speaker
As assistant curator at the List Visual Arts Center, Selby Nimrod organized first museum solo exhibitions with artists including Kite, Hana Miletić, Lex Brown, Alison Nguyen, Carlos Reyes, Sharona Franklin, Azza El Siddique, and Cindy Ji Hye Kim. As an independent curator, she organized exhibitions, screenings, and performances at the International Studio and Curatorial Program, the Kitchen; Hessel Museum of Art; the Seton Gallery; and a swimsuit factory. Nimrod is visiting faculty at MassArt for 2024–2025; has received a Étant donnés curatorial research fellowship from the French American Cultural Exchange; and has served as a guest critic in the sculpture departments at the Yale University School of Art and at SMFA Tufts.
About the Core Residency Program
Established in 1982, the prestigious Core Residency Program at the Glassell School of Art awards residencies to exceptional, highly motivated emerging artists and critical writers committed to developing a sustainable practice.
The Core Program at the Glassell School of Art receives generous funding from The Joseph & Sylvia Slifka Foundation; The Powell Foundation; and The Glassell Family Foundation.
Core fellowships have been underwritten by Anchorage Foundation of Texas; Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, Inc.; Mr. Brad Blume; Mr. Ronald A. Logan; McClain Gallery; Karen S. Pulaski; and The Arch and Stella Rowan Foundation, Inc.
Endowments for the Core Program have been provided by Leslie and Brad Bucher; gifts in memory of Laura Lee Blanton; the estate of Margaret Gillingham; Rusty Burnett; the Eleanor and Frank Freed Foundation; Eliza Lovett Randall; Herbert C. Wells; and Warren A. Hadler.