Steven Nash

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The Director of the Palm Springs Art Museum from 2007 until his recent retirement at the beginning of 2015, Steven Nash was also the founding Director of the Nasher Sculpture Center from 2001-2007, overseeing the ground-up organization of this remarkable museum for its opening in 2003. In addition to steering the genesis of the Nasher’s Renzo Piano-designed building and the sculpture collection it houses, Nash has participated in the design and development of three other new museum buildings and wings at the Dallas Museum of Art, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, and de Young Museum, and oversaw the addition of two new satellite facilities to the Palm Springs Art Museum. He has served as Associate Director, Chief Curator, and Curator of European Art, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (1988-2003); Deputy Director/Chief Curator (1980-1986) and Acting Director (1987-1988), Dallas Museum of Art; Research Curator (1973-1976), Chief Curator (1976-1980), Assistant Director (1980), Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY. During his role at these various institutions, Nash was responsible for over 1000 art acquisitions. Nash has organized numerous exhibitions including A Century of Modern Sculpture: The Raymond and Patsy Nasher Collection, Dallas Museum of Art and National Gallery of Art (1988), Madrid, Florence, Tel Aviv (1988-1989); Picasso and the War Years: 1937-1945, California Palace of the Legion of Honor (1998) and Guggenheim Museum, New York (1999); Modern Sculpture: From Rodin to Picasso, Palm Springs Art Museum at Palm Desert (2012). Nash has also written extensively on a wide range of art historical subjects, including many with a focus on sculpture, such as Naum Gabo: Sixty Years of Constructivism, Dallas Museum of Art (1985); Picasso the Sculptor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (1995); was editor of the Nasher Sculpture Center Handbook, and author of “The Nasher Collection: Celebrating Modern Sculpture,” Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas (2003); and has contributed essays to exhibition catalogues on Alain Kirili, David Smith, John Chamberlain, and Fausto Melotti.