Hettie Judah | Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood: Book launch & In-conversation with Sara Raza

7 September 2024 
doors open at 11am
In-conversation starts at 12pm

 

Join us to celebrate the US launch of writer and curator Hettie Judah's new book, Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood (Thames & Hudson, 2024) at Richard Saltoun Gallery New York. 

 

Hettie Judah will be in conversation with curator Sara Raza. Signed books will be available to purchase.

 

Exploring motherhood through the work of artists from prehistory to the present day, Acts of Creation addresses the abiding mother-shaped hole in art history. The publication includes four artists represented by the Richard Saltoun; Renate Bertlmann, Everlyn Nicodemus, Su Richardson and Annegret Soltau. 

 

This event has limited capacity. 

RSVP essential to: nyc@richardsaltoun.com

 
 
 About Hettie Judah
 
Hettie Judah is author of the standalone book Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood (Thames & Hudson, 2024), and curator of the 2024/2025 Hayward Gallery Touring exhibition of the same title. She is a regular contributor to The Guardian, Frieze and The Times Literary Supplement, and writes a monthly column for Apollo magazine. Following publication of Hettie's 2020 study on the impact of motherhood on artists’ careers, in 2021 she worked with a group of artists to draw up the manifesto How Not To Exclude Artist Parents, now available in 16 languages. In 2022, together with Jo Harrison, Hettie co-founded the Art Working Parents Alliance - a supportive network and campaigning group for curators, academics, gallerists, technicians, educators and others working in the arts. Recent books include How Not To Exclude Artist Mothers (and other parents) (Lund Humphries, 2023) and Lapidarium: The Secret Lives of Stones (Penguin, 2023).
 
About Sara Raza
 

Sara Raza is an award-winning curator and writer specializing in global art and visual cultures from a postcolonial and post-Soviet perspective with a specialism in Orientalism. She is the author of Punk Orientalism: The Art of Rebellion (Black Dog Press, London, 2022). Raza has curated exhibitions and projects for international museums, biennials, and festivals, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York), Galleria d’Arte Moderna (Milan), Rubin Museum of Art (New York), Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art (Doha, Qatar), the International Center of Photography (New York), the MacKenzie Art Gallery (Saskatchewan, Canada), Maraya Art Center (Sharjah), the Tashkent Biennale (Uzbekistan), the 55th Venice Biennale (Saudi Pavilion “Rhizoma”), and the 3rd Baku Public Art Festival (Azerbaijan), among others. Formerly, she was the Guggenheim UBS MAP Curator for the Middle East and North Africa at the Guggenheim Museum in New York and Curator of Public Programs at Tate Modern in London. Raza is the West and Central Asia Desk Editor for ArtAsiaPacific magazine and has written for numerous artist monographs, books, and catalogues. 

 

Raza is the recipient of the 11th ArtTable New Leadership Award for Women in the Arts and was honored by Deutsche Bank and Apollo as one of 40 under 40 global art specialists (thinkers’ category). She is a Walter Hopps Curatorial Excellence Award Finalist and the Arts Council of England Emerging Curator’s Awardee (2004-05). Sara holds a BA (Hons) in English Literature and History of Art and an MA in 20th-Century Art History and Theory, both from Goldsmiths College, University of London, and pursued studies towards her PhD at the Royal College of Art, London. She lives and works in New York City, where she runs her own independent global curatorial studio. She is the 2021-23 Red Burns Fellow at New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program and the 2024 visiting professor at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts' Masters Vilcek Curatorial Program. She also teaches at NYU’s Media, Cultures, and Communication Department, specializing in decolonial visual cultures.