The Socrates Annual 2024

The Socrates Annual 2024 is the culmination of Socrates Sculpture Park’s fellowship program, awarded to nine artists selected through an open call. Since 2001, the fellowship program has supported early career artists who receive financial and technical support to realize ambitious public artworks to be included in a park-wide exhibition.

In June, Socrates unveiled four projects by Kimberly Chou Tsun An, Landon Newton, Mamoun Nukumanu, and Vick Quezada as part of this year’s expanded fellowship. This new ecology-focused cohort of artists harnessed the peak spring and summer growing seasons to create “living” installations that engage the Park’s past, present, and future inhabitants within its former industrial wetland landscape. Incorporating and collaborating with dozens of native and introduced plant species, these ecological interventions have flourished throughout the summer and will continue to evolve with the changing seasons.

Throughout the summer, artists Jill Cohen-Nuñez*, Utsa Hazarika, Juan Manuel-Pinzon, Petra Szilagyi, and Nala C. Turner have been fabricating site-specific sculptures in the Park’s open-air studio. Utilizing a wide range of materials–mud, clamshells, metal, clay, stone, and found wood–these five projects delve into notions of diaspora, displacement, containment and assimilation, linking human adaptability with that of other living species.

*Jill Cohen-Nuñez is the 2024 Devra Freelander Artist Fellow

The Socrates Annual 2024 is organized by Socrates Sculpture Park and curated by Kaitlin Garcia-Maestas, Curator & Director of Exhibitions

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