The Spring 2026 Graduate Art guest lecture series, organized by Jack Bankowsky and Jason Smith.

Catherine Taft presents Nancy Buchanan

This event is free and open to the public. RSVPs are not required.

Nancy Buchanan is a conceptual artist working in performance, video, installation, and drawing. A founding member of F Space Gallery, Buchanan exhibited at the Los Angeles Woman's Building and continued feminist support work as a member of Double X. Buchanan's work has been included in exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; the New Museum, New York, NY; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; the Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; and at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA, where both her papers and video work are archived. Buchanan is the recipient of four National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist grants, a COLA grant, and a Rockefeller Fellowship in New Media. Her work was the subject of a recent retrospective at The Brick, Los Angeles, CA.

Catherine Taft is curator and deputy director of The Brick. Previously, she held curatorial positions at the Whitney Museum of American Art and at the Getty Research institute. Her 2024 traveling survey of ecofeminist art, Life on Earth, received an Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Research Fellowship, among other notable grants. With Laura Owens, she curated Truthfully: Nancy Buchanan, a retrospective of the artist’s sixty-plus-year career. Taft is a 2021 Fellow of the Center for Curatorial Leadership and is Adjunct Faculty in the Graduate Art program of ArtCenter College of Design.

Support for this series is generously provided by the following: Jack Shear, Brenda R. Potter, Brendan Dugan, Lisson Gallery, Beth Rudin DeWoody, BLUM, Hannah Hoffman, Alan Hergott, David Kordansky, and Jeffrey Deitch.

ArtCenter's Graduate Art program is based on intensive studio practice and rigorous academic coursework. The program is distinguished by its low faculty-to-student ratio that provides students with the attention and feedback they need to refine and achieve their artistic goals. Faculty and students are artists working in all genres—film, video, photography, painting, sculpture, performance and installation. A significant number of alumni have achieved national and international acclaim and often return to share their insights and expertise as visiting faculty and guest lecturers.