Sandra Nuut
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About

Sandra Nuut’s work includes lecturing, writing, and curatorial projects in the design field. She is based in Tallinn and works at the Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design. Nuut has previously worked at the Estonian Academy of Arts and the New York-based gallery Chamber.

sandra.nuut@gmail.com

EDUCATION

MFA Design Criticism, School of Visual Arts, New York, U.S.A., 2014

BA Art History, Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, Estonia, 2012

proloogkool (Prologue School), non-formal educational programme, 2021–2022

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2022– Curator, Tallinn, Estonia, Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design

2017–2022, Project Manager and Lecturer, Tallinn, Estonia Estonian Academy of Arts, Department of Graphic Design

2014–2017, Gallery Associate & Project Manager, New York, USA Chamber

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND PUBLIC PROGRAMMES

2022, Dear Friend Exhibition and Symposium, EKA Gallery

2021, Acting Things VIII – Silent Negotiations by Judith Seng, Tallinn Art Hall Gallery

2019, Making Public and Publics: Art Publishing in Context, Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design

2018, SUVA Type Foundry exhibition

2018, Window displays for Tallinna Kaubamaja

2013, Museum as Plinth: Take One/Leave One, Museum of Arts and Design, New York

SELECTED RESEARCH, WRITING & EDITORIAL WORK

2022, Dear Friend Catalogue. The publication was published on the occasion of the Dear Friend exhibition at EKA Gallery. It includes contributions by Justin Zhuang, Else Lagerspetz, and Lieven Lahaye, all published letters, and photos of the activities. 

2019, One Playground. Article in an exhibition catalogue Come Out and Play. Modern Kindergartens (ed. Sandra Mälk), published by the Museum of Estonian Architecture

2019–2022, Dear Friend, writing and editing a monthly letter-format publication

LECTURES, PUBLIC SPEAKING

2018, GD Lunch Lecture Series, Estonian Academy of Arts

2014, Lingua Franca: The 2014 D-Crit Conference, New York, USA

OTHER WORK

2016, Founder of a collective JANE JACOBS that highlights environmental and community issues through artistic projects

2014, Press and project management internship at fashion design studio SIKI IM during the New York Fashion Week.

2013, Project management internship at design consultancy MOSS BUREAU, New York, USA

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