Elana Herzog is an installation artist and sculptor who uses material culture to consider aspects of ephemerality, entropy, pleasure, and pain, focusing on the global migration of culture and technology as seen through the lens of textiles. Herzog will give a talk on her work titled Being Always in Relation.

Elana Herzog’s solo show, Global Floral is on view at ArtPace San Antonio until January 18, 2026.

She has exhibited her work widely including solo exhibitions at ArtPace San Antonio, Koffler Arts, Toronto, Cathouse Proper, Brooklyn; Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Sharjah Art Museum, UAE; Western Exhibitions, Chicago; The Boiler(Pierogi), and Smack Mellon, Brooklyn; the Aldrich Museum, Connecticut; Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Ithaca, New York. Her grants and awards include a Guggenheim; AWAW award; Tiffany; NYFA Fellow 2007/1999 and a Joan Mitchell Award.

This event is open to the public. This event is free and open to the public. The annual Agnes Rindge Claflin Lecture series is sponsored by the Vassar Art Department and supported by the Agnes Rindge Claflin Fund, a gift of the Friends of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center.