Mags Harries & Lajos Héder

Mags Harries & Lajos Héder are artists working collaboratively to create public art across the United States from their studio.[1]

Career

A married couple, they formed Harries/Héder Collaborative in 1990 and have worked together on major public art commissions[2] since then. Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, they have completed over thirty public projects with budgets up to $6 million. They designed Acoustic Weir in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[3]

Biographies

Mags Harries, a sculptor born in Wales, attended Leicester College of Art and Design in England and Southern Illinois University. She teaches at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston on sculpture, installation, and public art. She created the Glove Cycle installation at a subway station in 1984.

Lajos Héder, an artist born in Hungary, studied architecture and urban planning at Harvard University. Before forming Harries/Héder Collaborative, he worked on community projects, urban design, site planning, architecture, and construction.

They have two daughters, writer/director Sian Heder[4] and author/artist Thyra Heder.[5]

Recent projects

References

  1. "Mags Harries & Lajos Héder at 4Culture artist registry". web.archive.org. 2010-09-17. Retrieved 2020-12-12.
  2. Cohen, Michele; Michael Bloomberg; Stan Ries (2009). Public Art for Public Schools. Monacelli Press. p. 194. ISBN 978-1-58093-215-8.
  3. Sinclair, Jill (2009). Fresh Pond: The History of a Cambridge Landscape. MIT Press. p. 152. ISBN 978-0-262-19591-1.
  4. Meek, Tom (July 26, 2016). "Sian Heder's 'Tallulah' Pulls From 'Surreal Experiences With Bad Moms'". WBUR. Archived from the original on July 28, 2016. Retrieved July 29, 2016.
  5. "Thyra Heder". Thyra Heder. Archived from the original on 2016-05-30. Retrieved 2016-07-29.
  6. "Making art for everyone from Phoenix to Wales to their own hometown, Cambridge-based public artists Mags Harries and Lajos Heder are changing the landscape one project at a time". Boston Globe. May 7, 2000. Archived from the original on October 21, 2012. Retrieved January 6, 2010.
  7. Sherman, Mary (November 4, 2001). "Cambridge's 'Water' works as accessible, playful piece". Boston Herald. Retrieved January 6, 2010.
  8. Guanche, Chris (October 26, 2008). "Public art displayed in Miramar City gets new art pieces at library and cultural center". South Florida Sun-Sentinel. Archived from the original on October 24, 2012. Retrieved January 6, 2010.
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