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Lisa Le Feuvre, executive director Holt/Smithson Foundation

Lisa Le Feuvre is one of the speakers at Land Art Lives conference on October 3, 2024.

Lisa is a curator, writer, and editor. In 2018 she became inaugural Executive Director of Holt/Smithson Foundation, the artist foundation dedicated to the legacies of artists Nancy Holt (1938-2014) and Robert Smithson (1938-1973). From its home base in New Mexico, the Foundation collaborates with artists, writers, thinkers, and institutions to realize exhibitions, publish books, initiate artist commissions, program educational events, encourage research, and develop collections across the world.

Le Feuvre has curated more than seventy exhibitions as an institutional and independent curator, edited over thirty books and journals, spoken at 150 museums and universities across the world, and has published more than 125 essays and interviews with artists. Her 2024 curated exhibitions include For What It’s Worth: Value Systems in Art since 1960 at The Warehouse, Dallas (curated with Thomas Feulmer), Nancy Holt: Circles of Light at the Gropius Bau, Berlin (curated with Clara Meister), and Robert Smithson / Teresita Fernández at SITE SANTA FE (curated with Fernández), and her 2024 publications include the introduction to the compendium Great Women Sculptors ( Phaidon Press) and texts on the artists Anne Hardy, Lucia Pizzani, and Medardo Rosso.

Previously based in the UK, she led the Henry Moore Institute from 2010 through 2017, directed the contemporary art program at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich from 2005 to 209), was an academic based in the graduate Curatorial Program at Goldsmiths College, and Course Director of the graduate program in Arts Policy and Management at Birkbeck College, University of London.