Exhibition Design & Production Management
TESTIMONIALS
"My life changed when the Museum Of Arts and Design decided to curate and exhibit my mid career survey: Queer Maximalism 2022/2023. Sasha Nixon designed the entire show. Collaboratively, Sasha and I considered every surface, floor to ceiling of a two floor exhibit involving over 100 mannequins, platforms, wall treatments, lighting, sound, and text. Sasha was on the ball every second, not hesitating to offer solutions to all of requests as an artist and designer. Not only did Sasha design every detail in advance, the larger-than-life project was executed with precision, efficiency, and grace. You’d be a fool to not have Sasha on your team."
-Machine Dazzle, Queer Maximalism X Machine Dazzle, 2022-2023, New York, NY
“Throughout the planning and execution of our complex, multi-media installation, Sasha was full of innovative ideas and seasoned experience. She created a safe space for artists and colleagues with her calm, problem-solving temperament.”
-Shary Boyle, Outside the Palace of Me, 2023-2024, Toronto CA
"Sasha came to MAD as a mount maker; a discipline built on detail and material consideration for objects. In the years we’ve worked together she’s become an excellent manager of people; able to focus in when needed while never losing the bigger picture. As the hands on coordinator for exhibitions, Sasha manages creation and the implementation of exhibition designs, which at MAD are often elaborate. She is flexible, firm when needed, and fun to work with; which is critical for a job which revolves around freelance labor. "
-David Roesing, Crew Lead/Freelance Art Handler/Artist, New York NY
“I have worked with Sasha on many exhibitions over the past 6 years and her quick and excellent problem-solving skills have stood out. Great problem-solving skills are undervalued, but they make the difference between success or failure of a project”
-Tae Smith, Costume & Textile Expert, New York NY
"Sasha and I worked at the Museum of Art and Design for eight years between 2019 and 2025. During our time together I witnessed her growth as she continued to reposition herself as one of the most important employees of the institution. Sasha is able to communicate, organize, and follow through on projects in a way that allows thought and pleasure to take precedence in all the projects she's involved with. She always held on to her intuition to lead our team towards the goal of completion. What I appreciate most, and see in her is that her skill, drive, and knowledge will always be in growth."
Tin Nguyen, CFGNY, New York NY
Portfolio.pdfDetailed descriptions of my roll in featured exhibitions listed below can be found in my portfolio above.
Below find additional exhibitions and more details that cannot be encompassed by a pdf portfolio including: installation photography, SketchUp Layout renderings, 3D Matterport tours, and press.
CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
101624_Bascom_163A4081.jpgSketchUp Layout Rendering (forthcoming)
Design: Sasha Nixon
Production and Installation Manager: Sasha Nixon
Photography: Jenna Bascom
Barbie®: A CULTURAL ICON
(Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY. November, 2024–)
Barbie®: A Cultural Icon charts the 65-year history of Barbie and the doll’s global impact on fashion and popular culture through an expansive display of more than 250 vintage dolls, life-size fashion designs, advertisements, and other ephemera, along with exclusive video interviews with the doll's designers. Visitors to the exhibition will trace the evolution of Barbie from a child’s toy to a global icon, exploring the style trends, careers, and identities that Barbie has embodied and popularized since her debut in 1959.
MAD Exhibition Page -Ann Wilson
MAD Exhibition Page -OUT of the Jewelry Box
Design: Sasha Nixon
Production and Installation Manager: Sasha Nixon
Photography: Jenna Bascom
OUT OF THE JEWELRY BOX
ANN WILSON: MAD DRAWING ROOM and ERRANT BEHAVIORS
(Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY. May, 2024–)
Expanding the voices represented in MAD’s permanent collection, OUT of the Jewelry Box considers the importance of queer perspectives in the world of studio and contemporary art jewelry. The exhibition showcases an extraordinary gift from Ron Porter and Joe Price.
Ann Wilson is a Chicago-based visual artist who creates sculpture, drawings, performances and video animations that explore themes of time, loss, and private and social rituals. Her artwork embraces conceptual strategies and handwork using everyday materials
Anne Wilson created The MAD Drawing Room for visitors to engage in the beauty and complexity of the artist's personal archives of lace and openwork textiles through close looking, drawing, or writing.
Design: Sasha Nixon
Production and Installation Manager: Sasha Nixon
Photography: Jenna Bascom
CRAFT FRONT AND CENTER: CONVERSATION PIECES
(Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY. May, 2024–)
Exploring craft's collaborative practices, Craft Front & Center: Conversation Pieces brings pioneering twentieth-century craft artists into dialogue with contemporary artists who are rethinking craft techniques and materials. The exhibition draws from MAD's permanent collection and includes more than sixty historic, recently acquired, and commissioned works in a range of artistic media; most prominently, the central craft materials of ceramic, glass, and fiber.
PAST EXHIBITIONS
Design: Sasha Nixon
Production and Installation Manager: Sasha Nixon
Photography: Jenna Bascom
SONYA CLARK: WE ARE EACH OTHER
(Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY. Mar 24, 2023–Sept 22, 2024)
Highlighting thirty years of artmaking dedicated to the Black experience in America. The first comprehensive survey of the communal art projects that form the heart of Sonya Clark's pioneering creative practice.
Matterport Video
Sonya Clark floor 4.mp4First floor
Sonya Clark floor 5.mp4Second floor
Design: Sasha Nixon
Production and Installation Manager: Sasha Nixon
Mountmaking: Sasha Nixon (lead), Colleen Smiley, Laila Lott
Photography: Jenna Bascom
CRAFT FRONT AND CENTER
(Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY. Feb 4, 2023–Jan 14, 2024)
A Celebration of the Museum of Arts and Design's permanent collection focused on artist interpretation of identity and use of material.
Select Press:
Matterport Video
CFC 23.mp4
Design: Sasha Nixon
Production and Installation Manager: Sasha Nixon
Dressers: Tae Smith, Whitney Hanscom, Victoria Sterling Kelly
Muralist: Rebecca Graves
Mountmaking: Sasha Nixon
Photography: Bruce M. White, Sasha Nixon
TAYLOR SWIFT: STORYTELLER
(Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY. May 11, 2024–Mar 24, 2024)
A career-spanning look at the artistic reinventions of the 12-time GRAMMY Award–winning artist who is one of the most prolific songwriters in history.
Matterport Video
Design: Sasha Nixon
Production and Installation Manager: Sasha Nixon
Muralist: Rebecca Graves
Photography: Jenna Bascom
SHARY BOYLE: OUTSIDE THE PALACE OF ME
(Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY. Sept 23 2023–Feb 25, 2024)
"Outside the Palace of Me is a major exhibition of new work by Canadian visual artist and performer Shary Boyle. (...) Outside the Palace of Me assembles the artist’s ever-mounting anxieties about global crises, within the context of identity theatre. Reflecting on contemporary constructions of self through the language of costume, character, set design, and stage effects, Boyle explores how we see each other, and how we see ourselves."
Matterport Videos
Shary Boyle floor 5.mp4First Floor
Shary Boyle floor 4.mp4Second Floor
Exhibition Installation Photography (forthcoming)
Hispanic Society Exhibition Page
Design: Sasha Nixon
Production and Installation Manager: Sasha Nixon
Mountmaking: Matt Schwede
JEWELS IN A GEM: LUZ CAMINO AT THE HISPANIC SOCIETY MUSEUM
(Hispanic Society, New York, NY. May 18–Sept 8, 2023)
Organized in conjunction with the celebration of the Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida Centennial (1923-2023), “Jewels in a Gem: Luz Camino at the Hispanic Society Museum” features the inspiring works of Spanish high jewelry designer Luz Camino, who is celebrating her 50th year in the profession.
With Sorolla, Camino shares a passion for Spain and its colorful and lively culture. Geraniums, tambourines, castanets, lanterns, and banderillas are equally present in the works of both artists.
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Design: Sasha Nixon
Production and Installation Manager: Sasha Nixon
Mountmaking: Sasha Nixon (lead), Colleen Smiley, Laila Lott
Photography: Jenna Bascom
FUNK YOU TOO! : HUMOR AND IRREVERENCE IN CERAMIC SCULPTURE
(Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY. Mar 18–Aug 27, 2023)
Funk ceramic sculpture from 1960s to contemporary.
Matterport Video
Design: Sasha Nixon
Production and Installation Manager: Sasha Nixon
Dressers: Helen-Jean, Alicia (Phoenix Art Museum)
Photography: Jenna Bascom
GENERATION PAPER: FASHION OF THE 1960S
(Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY. Mar 18–Aug 27, 2023)
Disposable paper fashion from the 1960's
Matterport Video
Installation Photography
Design: Sasha Nixon
Production and Installation Manager: Sasha Nixon
Photography: Jenna Bascom
Matterport: ThutoDurkac-Somo
QUEER MAXIMALISM X MACHINE DAZZLE
(Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY. Sep 10, 2022–Feb 19, 2023)
"Queer Maximalism x Machine Dazzle is the first solo exhibition dedicated to the genre-defying artist Matthew Flower (US, b. 1972), better known as Machine Dazzle. A provocateur commanding an expanding repertoire of stagecraft, design, performance, and music, Machine Dazzle is a virtuoso practitioner of queer maximalism’s aesthetic language of gay liberation."
Design: Sasha Nixon
Production and Installation Manager: Sasha Nixon
Mountmaking: Sasha Nixon (lead), Johnny Coast, Ben Thompson
Dressing: Tae Smith
Photography: Jenna Bascom
GARMENTING: COSTUME AS CONTEMPORARY ART
(Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY. -August 8, 2022)
"The first global survey exhibition dedicated to the use of clothing as a medium of visual art, Garmenting: Costume as Contemporary Art examines work by thirty-five international contemporary artists, from established names to emerging voices. By making or altering clothing for expressive purposes, these artists create garments, sculpture, installation, and performance art that transform dress into a critical tool."
Design: Sasha Nixon
Production and Installation Manager: Sasha Nixon
Mountmaking: Sasha Nixon (lead), Laila Lott, Colleen Smiley
Photography: Jenna Bascom
Matterport: ThutoDurkac-Somo
Doan Ly.mp4Doan Ly
FLOWER CRAFT
(Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY. May 14–Jun 26, 2022)
"Flower Craft celebrated the creative visions of botanical artists working at the forefront of contemporary floral design. Inspired by nature’s ephemerality and its inimitable palettes, these artists are investigating all stages of the plant life cycle, from seed to germination to decay, to interpret nature in sculptural form."
Matterport Videos
Kristen Alpaugh.mp4Kristen Alpaugh
Emily Thompson.mp4Emily Thompson
CRAFT FRONT AND CENTER
(Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY. May 2–Nov 29, 2021)
"Craft was once at the margins of the art world, but no longer. Today it is front and center in art galleries, museums, and fairs, widely recognized for its expressive potential and cultural significance. (...) Craft Front & Center brings together more than 70 iconic and lesser-known works to highlight key thematic touchpoints in craft’s history that have brought us to this moment."
Design: Sasha Nixon
Production and Installation Manager: Sasha Nixon
Mountmaking: Sasha Nixon (lead), Johnny Coast, Laila Lott
Photography: Jenna Bascom
Matterport: ThutoDurkac-Somo
SketchUp Layout Rendering-1st Installation
SketchUp Layout Rendering-2nd Installation
Design: Nathan Bennett, Hendrik Garretts, and Sasha Nixon
Production and Installation Manager: Sasha Nixon
Mountmaking: Sasha Nixon (lead), Johnny Coast, Trisha Cheeney, Laila Lott, Anthony Rogers
Photography: Jenna Bascom
JEWELRY STORIES
(PREVIOUSLY 45 STORIES IN JEWELRY)
(Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY. -April 16, 2023)
"MAD was an early advocate of jewelry as a form of artistic expression. Its 1956 inaugural exhibition, Craftsmanship in a Changing World, gave many Americans their first exposure to metalsmiths who were challenging the norms of conventional jewelry design and creating works rooted in sculptural experimentation."
Design: Sasha Nixon
Production and Installation Manager: Sasha Nixon
Mountmaking: Sasha Nixon
Photography: Jenna Bascom
EXHIBITION: BURKE PRIZE 2019
(Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY. Oct 3, 2019–Apr 12, 2020)
"An exhibition of works of the 2019 finalists and winner of the Museum's Burke Prize, awarded to a contemporary artist under the age of forty-five working in glass, fiber, clay, metal, and/or wood."
SketchUp Rendering Fly-through of original design
Bard Graduate Center Gallery exhibition page
Design: Sasha Nixon and Cine Ostrow
Graphic Design: Laura Grey
Curation: Sasha Nixon
Mountmaking: Sasha Nixon and Matt Schewde
A VIEW FROM THE JEWELER'S BENCH: ANCIENT TREASURES, CONTEMPORARY IDEAS
(Bard Graduate Center Gallery, New York, NY. February 13-July 15, 2019)
"Traditional and current processes employed by jewelers are displayed alongside contemporary and historical jewels and artifacts, illuminating the connections between present and past – in terms of form, technique, and materials – that link modern jewelry and its forerunners while highlighting how contemporary jewelry artists are considering adornment uniquely while deriving inspiration from the past. "
Beyond those above I have been involved in the design, managment, and installation of exhibitions including:
CARRIE MOYER AND SHEILA PEPE: TABERNACLES FOR TRYING TIMES, Museum of Arts and Design, May 2021-Feb 2022
CHRIS SCHANK: OFF-WORLD, Museum of Arts and Design, 2023
GOBLETS FROM THE PERMANENT COLLECTION, Museum of Arts and Design, 2021-present
BETH LIPMAN: COLLECTIVE ELLEGY, Museum of Arts and Design, Sept 24, 2020–Nov 7, 2021
BRIAN CLARKE: THE ART OF LIGHT, Museum of Arts and Design 2021-2020
THE WORLD OF ANNA SUI, Museum of Arts and Design 2019-2020
VERA PAINTS A SCARF: THE ART AND DESIGN OF VERA NEUMAN, Museum of Art and Design, 2019-2020
TOO FAST TO LIVE, TOO YOUNG TO DIE: PUNK GRAPHICS 1976-1986, Museum of Arts and Design 2019
NON-STICK NOSTALGIA: Y2K RETROFUTURISM IN CONTEMPORARY JEWELRY, Museum of Arts and Design 2019
MAD COLLECTS: THE FUTURE OF CRAFT PART 1, Museum of Arts and Design 2019