Enrique Martínez Celaya in conversation with Alexander Nemerov

Artist Enrique Martínez Celaya in conversation with Stanford’s Alexander Nemerov. Filmed on Wednesday, January 31, 2024, in the Barbara and M. Kenneth Oshman Lecture Hall, Stanford University. Enrique Martínez Celaya is an artist, author, and former physicist whose work has been exhibited and collected by major institutions worldwide. He is Provost Professor of Humanities and Arts at the University of Southern California, Distinguished Professor for the MFA in Fine Arts at Otis College of Art and Design, and a Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth College. His work is held in 58 public collections internationally, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Martínez Celaya is the author of several books, including two volumes of his Collected Writings and Interviews, 2010-2017 and 1990-2010, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2020 and 2011, and his work has been the subject of several monographic publications including Martínez Celaya, SEA SKY LAND: towards a map of everything, Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2021, and Enrique Martínez Celaya and Käthe Kollwitz: Von den ersten und den letzten Dingen, Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2021. Alexander Nemerov is an art historian and author. He is the Carl and Marilynn Thoma Provostial Professor in the Arts and Humanities at Stanford, where he began in 2012 after teaching at Yale for eleven years. Nemerov is the author of many books, including The Forest: A Fable of America in the 1830s (Princeton, 2023), called by the novelist Annie Proulx “one of the richest books ever to come my way,” and Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York (Penguin, 2021), described by Susan Stamberg of NPR as “lyrical, powerful,” and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography in 2021. SPONSORED BY Department of Art & Art History and Vice Presidency for the Arts (VPA) Produced by Robert DeArmond