A Guggenheim educator, Lewis Kachur, guides attendees through a tour
Contemporary sculptor and alum Bove was a clinical associate professor of studio art at NYU Steinhardt from 2009 to 2013.
On May 8, NYU Steinhardt hosted an event at the Guggenheim Museum to celebrate the career and artwork of renowned contemporary sculptor Carol Bove (BS ’00, Studio Art). Faculty, staff, alumni, and friends from across NYU attended, as well as members of the NYU Steinhardt Dean’s Council and Alumni Advisory Board.
Open since March 5 and the first-ever museum survey of the artist’s work, the Guggenheim’s retrospective exhibition titled Carol Bove fills the Museum’s iconic spiral rotunda with pieces from intimate paper collages to towering steel sculptures.
Dean Jack Knott
In addition to being an alum, Bove was a clinical associate professor of Studio Art in the Department of Art and Art Professions at Steinhardt from 2009 to 2013.
“Carol Bove's relationship with [NYU Steinhardt] is two chapters: one as a student and then, after building a practice that had already taken her to MoMA, the Venice Biennale, and the High Line, she came back as a faculty member,” said Jack H. Knott, Gale and Ira Drukier Dean of Steinhardt, in his opening remarks. “That return matters. It tells you something about Carol, and something about Steinhardt: that this is a place artists feel connected to, not just credentialed by.”
After the Dean’s welcome, attendees were treated to a private tour of the exhibition by Guggenheim educators, organized by Isabella Caporuscio (MA ’22, Visual Arts Administration), the Guggenheim’s manager of academic engagement, followed by a reception.
Isabella Caporuscio
Bove is known for large-scale, brightly colored, crushed steel sculptures and assemblages of found objects. Her work has been displayed at David Zwirner galleries in London, New York, Paris, and Asia; the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The Common Guild in Glasgow; Palais de Tokyo in Paris; and more.
Bove’s work has also been featured in group exhibitions at several Venice Biennales, at documenta 13 in Kassel, Germany, and at the Whitney Biennial.
Carol Bove will be on view at the Guggenheim Museum through August 2, 2026.
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