03/05/2025
Juror Highlight | Statewide Annual UT ‘25 | Painting, Sculpture, & Installation
Independent editor, writer, and curator Nancy Zastudil has been advocating for artists’ voices for nearly two decades. She has held editorial, curatorial, or directorial roles at Arts+Culture Texas, Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts at the University of Houston, the Frederick Hammersley Foundation, Tamarind Institute, and Hyperallergic. Zastudil has edited numerous exhibition catalogues and related texts for galleries and museums, including Bridge Projects, the Columbus Museum of Art, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Tamarind Institute, the University of New Mexico Art Museum, and the Wende Museum, as well as artist monographs such as Jay Shinn: From All Points at Once (N+Co., 2025) and Marcelyn McNeil: Works (Radius Books, 2022). She was a 2024 Rabkin Prize nominee, and her writing has been published in Artforum, Arts+Culture Texas, Hyperallergic, Southwest Contemporary, and she contributed to Frederick Hammersley: To Paint without Thinking (The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, 2017), and The Hustle Economy: Transforming Your Creativity Into a Career (Running Press Adult, 2016). Her research has been supported by Women's International Study Center, National Endowment for the Arts, Graham Foundation, Utah State University, and others. She was the New Mexico consulting curator for the National Museum of Women in the Arts’ New Worlds: Women to Watch 2024, and she regularly participates in award juries, including Mid-America Arts Alliance, Fleishhacker Foundation, Creative Capital, and Harpo Foundation. Zastudil received her MA in Curatorial Practice from California College of the Arts and her BFA in Painting and Drawing from The Ohio State University.
Go here for more info about the Statewide Annual UT ‘25 and to submit your artwork: https://artsandmuseums.utah.gov/statewide-annual/
