Zenovia Toloudi, 2024 Saint-Gaudens Fellow

Public Nests references the legacy of Augustus Saint-Gaudens’ public monuments, and the creative community in which he lived and worked. Toloudi states, “beyond the sculptures, designs, and monuments, the exhibition engages with the history of the Cornish Colony – its structures and activities that supported artistic production in the isolated New Hampshire landscape.” Public Nests explores publicness in the wilderness, emphasizing the physically remote, isolated landscape in which artistic production was carried out, as well as the practices of imagination and creativity that take place “out there” – outside conventions.

Zenovia Toloudi is an artist and architect whose work questions and seeks alternatives to the increasing disconnection of people from nature and from each other.

Zenovia Toloudi is the 2024 recipient of the Saint-Gaudens Fellowship, an annual award presented to an emerging artist practicing primarily in the United States.