Friday, Aug 1, 2025
DIALOGUES: Brandon Ndife & Nora Lawrence
About
DIALOGUES is a program that brings together artists and cultural leaders for conversations centered around a single work of art. These exchanges offer insight into the ideas, influences, and contexts that shape contemporary artistic practice.
As part of our DIALOGUES series, artist Brandon Ndife sits down with Nora Lawrence, Chief Curator at Storm King Art Center, for a conversation about Decline, Lighthouse Works’ 2025 Public Art Commission. Installed on Fishers Island’s Silver Eel Cove, Decline reflects Ndife’s signature fusion of the domestic and the organic. In this conversation, Ndife and Lawrence explore the work’s materiality, ecological resonance, and the role of public sculpture in shaping relationships between art, landscape, and community.
Artist
Bio
Brandon Ndife (b. 1991, Hammond, Indiana) lives and works in New York. Recent solo exhibitions include Greene Naftali, New York (2024); Matthew Brown Gallery, Los Angeles (2022); Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, New York (2022); Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut (2022); Bureau, New York (2020, 2019); Shoot the Lobster, New York (2018); and Interstate Projects, Brooklyn (2016). Ndife’s work is currently on view in the exhibition, A Garden of Promise and Dissent, at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut. Other notable group exhibitions include the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2023); Greene Naftali, New York (2023); Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Sint-Martens-Latem, Belgium (2022); Soft Water Hard Stone, New Museum Triennial, New York (2021); and the Aspen Art Museum (2020). A graduate of The Cooper Union and Bard College MFA, Ndife has work in the permanent collections of the Baltimore Museum of Art and The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York.
