Introducing TCLF’s 2026 Kauffman Cultural Landscape Fellow
Born and raised in Washington, D.C., Andre Bogart Szabo is thrilled to return to his hometown as The Cultural Landscape Foundation’s (TCLF) 2026 Danette Gentile Kauffman Cultural Landscape Fellow.
Andre comes to TCLF with a background in studio art and film. Since studying visual media arts as an undergraduate at Emerson College, storytelling and the landscape have been central to Andre’s artistic practice. After college Andre lived and worked in New York City for more than a decade. Based in Red Hook, Brooklyn he maintains a studio practice, creating “site-specific landscape paintings.” Fueled by a desire to better understand the cultural, ecological, and sociological narratives embedded in his paintings Szabo enrolled in the University of Virginia’s Master of Landscape Architecture Program in 2025.
As a Kaufman Fellow, Andre will lend his knowledge of art history and landscape architecture to research site-specific art created by pioneering women artists, including Nancy Holt, Jody Pinto, and Elyn Zimmerman (among others). Following the demolition of Mary Miss’s Greenwood Pond: Double Site, the urgent need to identify, document, and manage these cultural landscapes has become increasingly apparent. Contributing to TCLF’s Public Art Advocacy program, Andre will help expand public awareness of these important artworks whose demise is often connected to insufficient or deferred maintenance over many years. Andre hopes that by making these significant works visible to broader audiences they may endure.