Maren Hassinger in Conversation

In celebration of the Yale University Art Gallery’s acquisition and installation of Maren Hassinger’s Monument (Pyramid) (2022), the artist joins Margaret Ewing, the Horace W. Goldsmith Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, in a conversation about her groundbreaking work. Underrecognized until recently by museums, Hassinger has worked steadily in sculpture, installation, and performance, becoming one of the leading artists of our time. Her career spans five decades and two coasts, beginning in the context of the Black Arts Movement in Los Angeles in the 1970s and continuing in New York, where she lives today. Employing natural, industrial, and found materials, she explores connections among the environment, community, politics, and identity. Hassinger is Director Emeritus of the Rinehart School of Sculpture at Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, and the 2024–25 Happy and Bob Doran Artist in Residence at the Gallery.