Mags Harries and Lajos Héder


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

Career

A married couple, they formed Harries/Héder Collaborative in 1990 and have worked together on major public art commissions 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.

Biographies

Mags Harries, a Welsh sculptor born in Wales, attended Leicester College of Art before immigrating to the United States to study at Southern Illinois University. She teaches at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston on sculpture, installation, and public art. Her 1976 work Asaroton was installed in Boston. She created the Glove Cycle installation at a Boston subway station in 1984. Two of her untitled 1972 prints are held by Harvard Art Museums, and a 1975 charcoal on paper work Theater is held by Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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. He was the principal author of the US Department of Transportation's Aesthetics in Transportation.
They have two daughters, writer/director Sian Heder and author/artist Thyra Heder.

Selected works