Having established herself as a painter, Nicole Eisenman has expanded her practice into the third dimension. She is a MacArthur Foundation Fellow and was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2018. In 2019, her work was included in both the Venice Biennale and the Whitney Biennial. Recent solo exhibitions include: What Happened, Museum Brandhorst, Munich; Whitechapel Gallery, London; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 2023–24; Heads, Kisses, Battles: Nicole Eisenman and the Moderns, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany; Aargauer Kunsthaus, Switzerland; Fondation Vincent Van Gogh, Arles; Kunstmuseum Den Haag, 2021–22. Giant Without a Body, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, 2021; Sturm und Drang, Contemporary Austin, Texas, 2020; Baden Baden Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany, 2019. She lives and works in Brooklyn.

This is an endowed Agnes Rindge Claflin Lecture. The Claflin Lecture Series is free and open to the public.

Sponsored by the Vassar Art Department.