Marian Goodman Gallery is pleased to announce that there will be a major public commission by Nairy Baghramian at Art Basel 2026.

As an inaugural Art Basel Awards Gold Award recipient in the Established Artist category, Baghramian will unveil this work on the Messeplatz.

Baghramian’s singular body of work traverses the realms of sculpture, installation, photography, and drawing with fearless experimentation, historical acuity, and conceptual rigor. Particularly in her primary medium of sculpture, the artist employs an extensive repertoire of techniques, materials, and forms to address the spatial, architectural, social, political, and contextual conditions of contemporary art.

Baghramian’s solo exhibitions include, among others: WIELS (2025); South London Gallery (2024); Metropolitan Museum of Art (2023–24); Aspen Art Museum (2023); Nasher Sculpture Center (2022); Secession (2021); Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Milan (2021); Palacio de Cristal (2018); Walker Art Center (2017); Statens Museum for Kunst (2017); Museo Tamayo (2015); Art Institute of Chicago (2014); Serralves Museum (2014); MIT List Visual Arts Center (2013); Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver (2012); and Serpentine Gallery (2010).

Baghramian has also participated at Venice Biennale (2019 and 2011); Yorkshire Sculpture International (2019); Documenta 14 in Kassel and Athens (2017); Skulptur Projekte Münster,  (2017 and 2007); Lyon Biennale (2017); Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art (2012); and the Berlin Biennale (2014 and 2008).

Baghramian was awarded honorary doctorate at The Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts, Lund University (2024) and has received numerous awards including the Aspen Art Award (2023); the Nivola Award (2022); Nasher Prize Laureate (2022); the Malcolm-McLaren-Award with Maria Hassabi (2019); the Zürich Art Prize (2016); the Arnold-Bode Prize, Kassel (2014); the Hector Prize, Kunsthalle Mannheim (2012); and the Ernst Schering Foundation Award (2007).