MAIKA ROSA POLLACK
60 North 6th
Street
Brooklyn,
NY 11249
646 623 0596 (telephone)
718 599 4884 (fax)
mpollack@sarahlawrence.edu
POSITION:
2013- SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE
Guest
Faculty in Art History. Designed and taught lecture and seminar courses: Art
Since 1945; Art Writing; The Artful Science: Photography and Society 1825-1919;
Contemporary Curating; Dada and Surrealism: Art and Politics; Describing
Decadence: 1850-1914; The History of Photography: New Technologies and
Theories, 1914 - Present; Modern Art 1789-1914; Modern Art since 1915. Brought
speakers on art criticism and contemporary art to the college, curated
exhibitions in university gallery. (Instructor of record.)
2007, 2011-2013 PRINCETON
UNIVERSITY
TA
Neoclassicism to Impressionism, Department of Art and Archaeology (Spring
2007).
Lecturer
(Spring 2013), Quin Morton Teaching Fellow (2011-12), Postdoctoral fellow
(2013): designed and taught "Time Travel," an interdisciplinary seminar
examining representations of time travel, Princeton Writing Program. (Instructor
of record).
2012 NEW YORK
UNIVERSITY (Steinhardt School)
Adjunct
Professor, Art Since 1945 (Fall 2012). Designed and taught undergraduate
lecture. (Instructor of record).
EDUCATION:
2015 Ph.D. History
of Art, Princeton University
2007 M.A. History of
Art, Princeton University
1999 A.B. History of
Art and Social Studies (joint concentration), Harvard University
magna cum laude
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
20th-Century
Art, the History of Photography in the 19th- and 20th
century, Experimental Photography and Performance of the 1960s and 70s, Contemporary
Art, Feminist Art History
OTHER PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS:
2000- SOUTHFIRST
Founded
and directed art gallery. Curated over 65 exhibitions focusing on experimental postwar
and contemporary art. Worked with artists and estates. Edited and produced
publications. Communicated with local and international press. Responsible for
budget. Hired staff and interns. Organized participation in art fairs and
international exhibits, coordinated transportation logistics. Consistently
placed historical and contemporary postwar artwork within major museum and
private collections.
2011-2015 The New York
Observer
Art
critic: columnist for newspaper writing weekly exhibition reviews.
2000-2002 PS1 MoMA
Curatorial
assistant to chief curator, PS1. Coordinated major contemporary art shows
including monographic traveling exhibitions, and special exhibitions focusing
on performance and time-based media. Produced two bilingual catalogues in
conjunction with international contemporary art institutions. Worked with artists,
galleries, funders and departments within the museum to plan and implement shows.
1995-1999 HARVARD
UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS
Student
liaison for teaching faculty at the Sackler Museum, Fogg Art Museum,
and
the Mongan Center for Prints and Drawings. Prepared artwork for research and exhibition
in coordination with seminars given in the Department of Fine Arts. Handled works
on paper for courses including Eighteenth-century European painting and
Japanese woodblock prints, worked with visiting scholars.
CURRENT BOOK PROJECTS:
From Odilon Redon to Relational Aesthetics
The Artful Science: Photography and Society,
1839-1860
PUBLICATIONS:
Books and Catalogs:
Joe Gibbons: Drawings from Rikers, ed. Maika Pollack with an interview by Tony
Oursler and an introduction by Andrew Lampert (New York, NY: Object Relations
and Southfirst Gallery, forthcoming).
Excerpts from the 1971 Journal of Rosemary Mayer, ed. Marie Warsh with a foreword by Maika Pollack
(New York, NY: Object Relations and Southfirst Gallery, 2016).
Jared Bark: Photo Booth Works & Performance
Videos, 1969-1976, ed. Maika
Pollack (New York, NY: Southfirst Gallery and Sarah Lawrence College, 2015).
Loop: Alles auf Anfang, ed. Anselm Franke with Maika Pollack (New York
and Munich: MoMA/PS1 and Hypo-Kunsthalle Munich, 2002).
Exhibition Catalog
Essays:
Lewis
Hine in Lisa Oppenheim: Spine, ed.
Karen Archey (Cleveland, Ohio: Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, 2017).
The Nude as Protest:
Subject/Object Formulations in the work of Miriam Laufer, in Views and Vignettes, the Work of Miriam
Laufer, ed. Johanna Drucker with an essay by Maika Pollack (Provincetown,
MA: Provincetown Art Museum, 2016).
Jared Bark: Photo Booth
Works and Performance Videos 1969-1975 catalog essay (New York, NY: Object Relations and Southfirst gallery, 2015).
American Dreamers, catalogue essay in Alison
Taylor (Geneva, Switzerland: Muse Chateau de Nyon 2015).
Through This Field, in Medium as Metaphor (New York, NY:
Greenwich House, 2013).
Das Bild des Arbeiters/Men At Work, catalog
essay in Bauerntheater: David Levine,
(Joachimsthal, Branderburg: Biorama-Projekt, 2007), 30-47.
Imagining
Another, in Primitivism Revisited: After
the End of an Idea, (New York: Sean Kelly Gallery, 2006).
Landscape,
Labor, Phantasmagoria: William Henry Fox Talbots House in the Country, in Books and Tapes 2 (Brooklyn, NY: Books
and Tapes, 2006).
Jesse Chapman: Amateur Mathematics, in Jesse
Chapman (Gustavia, St. Barthes: Medium, 2006).
Ceal Floyer: The Opposite of Sublime, in Loop: Alles auf Anfang,
ed. Anselm Franke with Maika Pollack (New York and Munich: PS1/MoMA and Hypo-Kunsthalle
Munich, 2002). 148-151.
Art Criticism and Art Writing:
Marilyn Minter at the Brooklyn Museum, Aperture, January 2016.
David Salle BOMB Magazine,
December 2016.
Donald Judd Writings, BOMB
Magazine, November 2016.
Ellen Cantor: 25 Years of
Sexually X-plicit Art at Macaronne, Participant and Foxy Production, Aperture, October 2016.
Bruce Conner: Its All True at the Museum of Modern Art, Aperture, September 2016.
Anders Krisr, Interview Magazine, April 14, 2016.
Bridget Donahue, T Magazine, The
New York Times, February 14, 2015.
Ebony G. Patterson, Interview
Magazine, March 22, 2016.
Gerhard Richter: Atlas, Interview
Magazine, December 16, 2015.
Keith Mayerson, Interview
Magazine, November 10, 2015.
Agnes Denes Interview Magazine, May 18, 2015.
Sigmar Polkes Photographic
Unconscious, The Brooklyn Rail June 5,
2014.
Poetry in Motion Calder at Dominique Lvy, Cultured Magazine, June 1, 2015.
His Struggle: Norwegian Mischief-Maker Bjarne Melgaard Meets Edvard
Munch in Oslo ArtNews, February 6,
2015.
Timelapse of a Half Century: MoMA Unpacks a Treasure Trove of
Surprising Images, The New York Observer,
January 21, 2015.
A Trio of Galleries Showcase Austrian Art, From Vienna and Beyond, The New York Observer, December 3, 2014.
The Mid-Century Motorized Madness of ZERO: Countdown to Tomorrow at
the Guggenheim, The New York Observer,
November 5, 2014.
Painting Outside the Lines: New Shows at the Jewish Museum and EFA
Project Space, The New York Observer,
October 1, 2014.
Amy Sillman: Art Meets Intimacy at Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College,
The New York Observer, August 20,
2014.
Christopher Williams: The Production Line of Happiness at Museum of
Modern Art, The New York Observer,
August 1, 2014.
Garry Winogrand at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and The
Photographic Object, 1970 at Hauser & Wirth, The New York Observer, July 16, 2014.
Living With Pop: A Reproduction of Capitalist Realism' at Artists Space, The New York Observer, July 23, 2014.
A Dialogue With Nature: Romantic Landscapes
From Britain and Germany at the Morgan Library & Museum, The New York Observer, July 2, 2014.
Not a Koons Person: Jeff Koons at
the Whitney, The New York Observer, June 26, 2014.
Under the Same Sun: Art From Latin America
Today at the Guggenheim, The New York
Observer, June 18 2014.
Mel Bochner: Strong Language at the Jewish Museum, The New York Observer, May 28 2014.
When the Stars Begin to Fall: Imagination and the American South at
the Studio Museum in Harlem, The New
York Observer, June 11 2014.
Carl Andre: Sculpture as Place, 19582010 at Dia:Beacon,
The New York Observer, May 7, 2014.
Lygia Clark: The Abandonment of Art, 19481988 at the Museum of
Modern Art, The New York Observer,
May 14, 2014.
13 Most Wanted Men: Andy Warhol and the 1964 Worlds Fair at the
Queens Museum, The New York Observer,
April 30 2014.
Other Primary Structures at the Jewish Museum, The New York Observer, March 19, 2014.
Degenerate Art: The Attack on Modern Art in Nazi Germany, 1937_ at the
Neue Galerie, The New York Observer,
March 12, 2014.
Alibis: Sigmar Polke 19632010_ at the Museum of Modern Art, The New York Observer, April 16, 2013.
Maria Lassnig at MoMA PS1, The
New York Observer, April 2, 2014.
Chicago in L.A.: Judy Chicagos Early Work, 196374 at the Brooklyn
Museum, The New York Observer, April
9 2014.
Robert Heinecken: Object Matter at the Museum of Modern Art, The New York Observer, March 26, 2014.
The 2014 Whitney Biennial, Interview
Magazine, March 5, 2014.
Carissa Rodriguez and Ei Arakawa, Interview
Magazine, March 5, 2014
Pawe_ Althamer: The Neighbors at the New Museum, The New York Observer, March 5, 2014.
Gauguin: Metamorphoses at the Museum of Modern Art, The New York Observer, March 5, 2014.
Italian Futurism, 19091944: Reconstructing the Universe at the
Guggenheim Museum, The New York Observer,
February 26, 2014.
Macho Man, Tell It to My Heart: Collected by Julie Ault at Artists
Space, The New York Observer,
February 18, 2014.
Ken Okiishi, Carrisa Rodriquez & Ei Arakawa, Interview Magazine, February 2014.
What Is a Photograph? at the International Center of Photography and
A World of Its Own: Photographic Practices in the Studio at the Museum of
Modern Art, The New York Observer,
February 12, 2014.
Charles Marville: Photographer of Paris at the Metropolitan Museum of
Art, The New York Observer, February
5, 2014.
Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of
Photography and Video at the Guggenheim, The New
York Observer, January 29, 2014.
Ileana Sonnabend: Ambassador for the New at
the Museum of Modern Art, The New York Observer, January 15, 2014.
The 10 Best Museum Exhibitions of 2013, The New York Observer, December 18, 2013.
Vermeer, Rembrandt and Hals: Masterpieces of Dutch Painting From the
Mauritshuis at the Frick Collection, The New York Observer, December 10, 2013.
Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art at the Grey
Art Gallery and the Studio Museum in Harlem, The New York Observer, November 26, 2013.
Isa Genzken: Retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, The New York Observer, November 19,
2013.
Knut Asdam, Slought Foundation, Artforum.com,
November 18, 2013.
Jason Rhoades, Four Roads at the Institute of Contemporary Art,
Philadelphia, The New York Observer,
November 5, 2013.
Christopher Wool at the Guggenheim Museum, October 29, 2013.
The Armory Show at 100: Modern Art and Revolution at the New-York
Historical Society, Oct 22 2013.
Mike Kelley at PS1/MoMA, The
New York Observer, October 16, 2013.
Balthus: Cats and GirlsPaintings and Provocations at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, The New York
Observer, October 1, 2013.
New Photography 2013_ at the Museum of Modern Art, The New York Observer, September 25,
2013
Julia Margaret Cameron at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The New York Observer, September 17,
2013
Multiple Occupancy: Eleanor Antins Selves at the Miriam and Ira D.
Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University, The New York Observer, September 10, 2013
Helen Marten: No borders in a wok that cant be crossed at the Hessel
Museum of Art, The New York Observer,
September 3, 2013.
Haim Steinbach: Once Again the World Is Flat at the Hessel Museum of
Art, The New York Observer,
September 3, 2013.
James Turrell at the Guggenheim Museum, The New York Observer, August 6, 2013
Photography and the American Civil War at the Metropolitan Museum of
Art, The New York Observer, August
6, 2013
Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes at the Museum of Modern
Art, The New York Observer, July 30,
2013
Llyn Foulkes at the New Museum, The
New York Observer, July 23, 2013
State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970 at the Bronx Museum of
the Arts, The New York Observer,
July 16, 2013
Thomas Hirschhorn: Gramsci Monument at Forest Houses, The New York Observer, July 9, 2013
Expo 1: New York at the Museum of Modern Art, MoMA PS1 and the VW
Dome 2, The New York Observer, June
25, 2013
Paul McCarthy: WS at the Park Avenue Armory, The New York Observer, June 25, 2013
Subliming Vessel: The Drawings of Matthew Barney at the Morgan
Library & Museum, The New York
Observer, June 18, 2013
Paul Thek and His Circle in the 1950s at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of
Gay and Lesbian Art, The New York
Observer, June 18, 2013
Jack Goldstein x 10,000 at the Jewish Museum, The New York Observer, May 21, 2013.
Punk: Chaos to Couture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The New York Observer, May 14, 2013.
John Singer Sargent Watercolors at the Brooklyn Museum, The New York Observer, May
7, 2013.
Claes Oldenburg: The Street and The Store 19601962 and Mouse
Museum/Ray Gun Wing at the Museum of Modern Art, The New York Observer, April 30, 2013.
As It Were So to Speak: A Museum Collection in Dialogue With Barbara Bloom at the Jewish Museum, The New York Observer, April 23, 2013.
The Art of Harvey Kurtzman at the Society
of Illustrators, The New York Observer, April 9, 2013.
Audubons Aviary: Part I of the Complete Flock at the New York Historical
Society Museum and Library, The New York
Observer, April 2, 2013.
German Expressionism 19001930: Masterpieces From
the Neue Galerie Collection at the Neue Galerie, The New York Observer, March 26, 2013.
Blues for Smoke at the Whitney Museum, The New York Observer, March 12, 2013.
Piero della Francesca in America at the Frick Collection, The New York Observer, March 12, 2013.
Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity at the Metropolitan Museum of
Art, The New York Observer, February
26, 2013.
Gutai: Splendid Playground at the Guggenheim Museum, The New York Observer, February 26,
2013.
NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No
Star at the New Museum, The New
York Observer, February 16, 2013.
Drawing Surrealism at the Morgan Library, The New York Observer, February 5, 2013.
Anything Can Substitute Art: Maciunas in Soho at the Cooper Union, The New York Observer, January
22, 2013.
Looking Back, The Seventh Annual White Columns Biennial, The New York Observer, January 15, 2013.
The Clock at the Museum of Modern Art, The New York Observer, January 1, 2013.
Inventing Abstraction at the Museum of Modern Art, The New York Observer, January 1, 2013.
Matisse: In Search of True Painting at the Metropolitan Museum of
Art, The New York Observer, December
12, 2012.
Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 19601980 at MoMA PS1, The New York Observer, December 12,
2012.
Made in Japan: Tokyo 1955-1970: A New Avant-Garde at MoMA, The New York Observer, November 27,
2012.
Origin Stories: Materializing Six Years: Lucy R. Lippard and the
Emergence of Conceptual Art and Mickalene Thomas at the Brooklyn Museum;
Rosemarie Trockel and Judith Bernstein at the New Museum, The New York Observer, October 30, 2012.
From Brush and Palette to Printer and Cartridge: Picasso Black and
White at the Guggenheim, Wade Guyton OS at the Whitney, The New York Observer, October 9, 2012.
Andys Kids: The Met Takes a Scattershot Stab at Establishing Warhols
Influence, but art Artists Space, the Bernadette Corporation is the True Heir
to His Myth-Making, The New York
Observer, September 25, 2012.
Use It or Lose It: Liam Gillicks 90s hit Bards Hessel Museum, The New York Observer, September 6,
2012.
Square Dance: Josef Albers in America at the Morgan Library, The New York Observer, August 15, 2012.
Back on the Map: Alighiero Boetti: Game Plan at the Museum of Modern
Art, The New York Observer, July 31,
2012.
Spot On: Between Louis Vuitton and the Internet, Yayoi Kusama is
Everywhere, The New York Observer,
July 18, 2012.
Bollinger, Unchained: Long-Overdue
Retrospective at SculptureCenter Proves Late Sculptors Influence, The New York Observer, June 26, 2012.
Sign of the Times: Why are Contemporary Art Dealers Looking to
Fin-de-Sicle France, GalleristNY,
June 22, 2012.
Interiors: Edouard Vuillard: A Painter and His Muses, 1890-1940 at
the Jewish Museum and Merlin Carpenter: Tate Caf, at Reena Spaulings Fine
Art, The New York Observer, June 5,
2012.
The One That Got Away: Picasso and Franoise Gilot: Paris-Vallauris,
1943-1953 at Gagosian and Frank Stella at L&M Arts, The New York Observer, May 29, 2012.
Out of the Fluorescents Glare: Dan Flavin: Drawing at the Morgan
Library, Shows another Side of the Minimalist, The New York Observer, May 8, 2012.
Artist as Explorer, With Video Camera: Juan Downey: The Invisible
Architect at the Bronx Museum, The New
York Observer, April 24, 2012.
A Family Affair: At the Met, Steins Demonstrates Pleasures of Art
Collecting, The New York Observer,
April 10, 2012.
His and Hers: John Chamberlain and Francesca Woodman at the
Guggenheim, The New York Observer,
March 27, 2012.
Pictures of You: Cindy Sherman at the Museum of Modern Art, The New York Observer, March 6, 2012.
LaToya Ruby Frasier, Interview
Magazine, March 2, 2012.
Be Here Now: Eccentric Historicism Emerges at the 2012 Whitney
Biennial, The New York Observer,
February 28, 2012.
The Whitney Biennial Preview, Interview
Magazine, February 27, 2012.
Dead On: Weegee: Murder is My Business, at the International Center
of Photography, The New York Observer,
January 31, 2012.
A Few of His Favorite Things: The Ronald S. Lauder Collection at the
Neue Galerie, The New York Observer, January
17, 2012.
Roy Lichtenstein: Pop Films at the Whitney, Artforum.com, January 13, 2012.
Reality Show: The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini at
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The New
York Observer, January 3, 2012.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man:
Picassos Drawings, 1890-1921 at the Frick Collection, The New York Observer, December
13, 2011.
An Influential Citizen: The
Bearden Project at the Studio Museum in Harlem, The New York Observer, November 30, 2011.
Will the Real Sherrie Levine Please Stand Up? Mayhem at the Whitney,
The New York Observer, November 13,
2011.
Are You Experienced? Carsten Hller at the New Museum, The
New York Observer, November 1, 2011.
Occupy the Morgan Library: David, Delacroix, and Revolutionary France
Drawings from the Louvre, The New York
Observer, October 18, 2011.
Painting as Mirror: Eva Hesse
Spectres 1960_ at the Brooklyn Museum The New York Observer, October 4, 2011.
A Man in Full: de Kooning at MoMA, The
New York Observer, October 3, 2011.
500 Words: Christopher Bollen, Artforum.com,
September 16, 2011.
The Hugo Boss Prize: Hans-Peter Feldman, The New York Observer, September 6, 2011.
Blinky Palermo: Original Gangster, The
New York Observer, August 23, 2011.
Impressions from South Africa, 1965 to Now, at MOMA, The New York Observer, August 10, 2011.
Ai of the Beholder: Ai Wei Wei at the Asia Society, The New York Observer, August 2, 2011.
Florence Knoll and Cy Twomblys Material Worlds, The New York Observer, July 12, 2011.
Critics Picks: Poul Gernes and Birgir Andrsson, Artforum.com, June 24- July 29, 2011.
Critics Picks: Richard Prince at the Bibliothque Nationale, Paris Artforum.com, June 26, 2011.
Quentin Roosevelts China: Ancestral Realms of the Naxi at the Rubin
Museum of Art, The New York Observer,
June 21, 2011.
Towering Ambition: Picasso and Marie-Thrse at Gagosian; Vladimir
Tatlin at Tony Shafrazi; Donald Judd at David Zwirner, The New York Observer, June 15, 2011.
Everything But the Kitchen Sink: Kurt
Schwitters: Color and Collage at Princeton University Art Museum, The New York Observer, May 31, 2011.
Sisters are Doing It For Themselves:
Collecting Matisse at the Jewish Museum, The
New York Observer, May 24, 2011.
American Like Me: Glenn Ligon at the Whitney, The New York Observer, May 10, 2011.
Giant in Miniature: Richard Serras drawings at the Met, The New York Observer, April
27, 2011.
Proto-Manhattan on the Danube, Vienna 1900 at the Neue Galerie, The New York Observer, April 18, 2011.
Modernism You Can Wear to the Beach: Sonia Delaunay at Cooper-Hewitt, The New York Observer, April 11, 2011.
Picassos Post-Breakup Breakthrough, The New York Observer, March 15, 2011.
Genius as Debtor: Rembrandt and His School at the Frick,
The New York Observer, March 1, 2011.
Critics Picks: The Jewel Thief, Artforum.com,
February 19-28, 2011.
On Display: Czannes Card Players at the Met, The New York Observer, February 15, 2011.
Necrophilia on the Bowery: George Condo at the New Museum, The New York Observer,
February 1, 2011.
The Loner: Edward Hopper at the Whitney Museum, The New York Observer, January 18, 2011.
Two One-Minute Stories, (short fiction), Wheelhouse Magazine, Issue 9, Winter 2010
Kaboom Press, Video Game Story,
(short fiction), Winter, 2009.
Trade, curated by Matthew
Higgs at White Columns, Flash Art,
May/June 2005 v. 38 p. 86.
Ellen Gallagher at the Whitney Museum, Flash Art, March/April 2005 v. 38 p. 55
Chloe Piene, Bridge Magazine, January/February 2005.
Olaf Breunnig, at Metro Pictures,
Flash Art, March/April 2004, p. 59
Peter Coffin: It Chooses You, Flash
Art, n. 237, October/November, 2004.
Yuh-Shioh Wong, Flash Art,
n. 236 May-June 2004, p. 82.
Bjorn Melthus at Satellite, Flash
Art, n. 234 Jan-Feb 2004 p. 53.
Chloe Piene at Gasser & Gruenert Flash Art, n. 230 May-June 2003 p. 90.
David Noonan: Foxy Productions, Flash
Art, vol. 36, no. 230, May-June 2003, p. 91
Karaoke Death Machine at Daniel Reich, Flash Art, n. 230 May-June 2003 p. 84.
Spotlight: Tom Sachs, feature, Flash
Art, n. 229 March-April 2003, p. 107
David Korty at Greene Naftali Flash
Art, January/Feburary 2004 n. 234 p.109-110.
The American Effect, feature, Flash
Art, n. 232, Oct 2003 p. 43-52.
Do It: a project by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Readymade, October 2002.
Michel Majeruss Disco Electrique Flash
Art, n. 226, October 2002, p. 101-102.
Janet Cardiff and Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, June 2002, Thing.net.
Catalogue Entries:
Frank Stella, and Willem
deKooning, in Princeton University Art
Museum: Handbook of the Collections (New Haven and London: Yale University
Press, 2007), 247, 253.
Jean Arp,
Joel Shapiro in Sculptures from the
Nasher Sculpture Collection, (Venice, Italy: the Peggy
Guggenheim Collection, 1999).
EXHIBITIONS (Selected):
October December, 2016.
Curator, with Max and Marie Warsh, Rosemary Mayer: Conceptual Works &
Early Fabric Sculptures, 1969 1973, Southfirst gallery.
Reviews
and notices:
Chloe
Wyma, Critics Picks: Rosemary Mayer, Artforum.com,
November 4, 2016.
Martha
Schwendener, Rosemary Mayer: Conceptual Works & Early Fabric Sculptures,
1969-1973 at Southfirst, The New York
Times, November 18, 2016.
Goings
on Around Town: Rosemary Mayer at SOUTHFIRST, The New Yorker, November 28, 2016.
July September, 2016.
Curator, Leslie Thornton: Of Necessity I Become and Instrument, Southfirst
gallery.
Reviews
and notices:
Wendy Vogel, "Leslie Thornton Of Necessity I Became an Instrument, Southfirst, Brooklyn, 8
July- 25 September," Art Review,
October 16, 2016 p. 142
September November 2015
and March-April, 2016. Curator, "Jared Bark: Photobooth Works, 1969-1976,
Southfirst gallery and Barbara Walters Gallery, Sarah Lawrence College.
Organized to run concurrently with my course, Contemporary Curating.
Reviews
and notices (selected):
Roberta
Smith, Jared Barks Black-and-White Photobooth Creations, The New York Times, November 5, 2015.
Roberta
Smith, Jared Bark: Photobooth Works, 1969-1976, Museum & Gallery Listings
for Nov. 13-19, The New York Times,
November 12, 2015.
Vince Aletti, Jared Bark, The New Yorker, September 26-November 15, 2015.
Wendy Vogel, Jared Bark at Southfirst, Art in America, November 2015.
Hrag Vartanian, Best of 2015: Our Top 10 Brooklyn Art Shows, Hyperallergic, December 15, 2015.
Carey
Dunne, An Artists Conceptual Photo Booth Compositions from the 1970s, Hyperallergic, November 12, 2015.
Jessica Patterson, Jared Bark, Flavorpill, September 24, 2015.
March May 2016.
Organizer with Aki Onda (curator), Akio Suzuki: pa chin ko, Southfirst
gallery.
Reviews
and notices:
Holland
Cotter: Spring Gallery Guide: Art to See in the Galleries: Brooklyn, The New York Times, April 21, 2016.
Daniel McDermon, How to Make the Most of the Frieze Week Art Fairs, The New York Times, May 4, 2016.
Akio Suzuki Solo Exhibition Curated by Aki Onda, The Wire, March 14, 2016.
January March, 2016.
Curator, Joe Gibbons: Recent Drawings (Drawings from Rikers), Southfirst
gallery.
Reviews
and notices (selected):
Sarah
Cowan, A Quiet, Meditative Place, The
Paris Review, March 7, 2016.
Andrew
Russeth, When Felonies Become Form: The Secret History of Artists who use
Lawbreaking as their Medium, ArtNews,
Summer 2016.
Craig
Hubert, Joe Gibbons to Exhibit Drawings from Prison in Brookyn, Blouin ArtInfo, January 20, 2016.
January February, 2015.
Curator: Susan Bee: Photograms and Altered Photos from the 1970s, Southfirst
gallery.
Reviews
and notices (selected):
Holland Cotter, Susan Bee: Photograms and Altered Photos from the 1970s, The New York Times, February 12, 2015.
Andrea Scott, Goings on About Town: Susan Bee, The New Yorker, January 9 February 21, 2015.
Margaret Graham, Visual Scientific Poetry: Susan Bees Photograms, Artcritical, February 7, 2015.
Stephen Maine, Susan Bee at Southfirst, ArtNews,
April 2015.
Hrag Vartanian, Susan Bee: Photograms and Altered Photos from the 1970s, Hyperallergic, January 6, 2015.
June July, 2014. Curator
with Coleen OConner. Group Material: Reactivating Three Unrealized
Proposals,
Southfirst. Organized with students in my course, Contemporary Curating.
May June 2013. Co-curator
with Jay Sanders, Robert Grenier, "Language Objects: Letters in Space,
1970 2013, Southfirst gallery.
Reviews
and notices (selected):
Andrea Scott, "Robert Grenier at Southfirst,"
The New Yorker, June 24, 2013.
Ongoing. Co-curator with
Shireen Abrishamian. Menu Project with Michelle Abels, Lucas Blalok, Margaret
Lee, Joel Sternfeld, Philip Vanderhyden, Michael Wang. China Chalet, New York.
Friday, February 22, 2013.
Co-organizer with Jay Sanders, Michael
Taussig: Berlin Sun Theater, (performance) Whitney Museum, NY.
April May, 2011.
Curator, David Deutsch: Nothing Real, Southfirst.
Reviews
and notices (selected):
Andrea
Scott, "David Deutsch at Southfirst, The
New Yorker, Goings on About Town, May 2011.
June July, 2011.
Curator, Women and Weaving, Southfirst.
Reviews and notices (selected):
Andrea
Scott, "Women and Weaving at Southfirst, The New Yorker, Goings on About Town, July 19, 2011.
November December, 2010.
Curator, Elise Adibi, A Priori, Southfirst.
Reviews
and notices (selected):
Suzanne Hudson, Elise Adibi, Southfirst, Artforum, February 2011.
August 2010. Organizer,
Daniel Arsham and Jonah Bokaer, (performance) Bard College, MPR.
December 2006 January
2007. Co-curator, Primitivism Revisited, Sean Kelly Gallery, NY. Organized to
run concurrently with the graduate seminar, Curating African Art.
Reviews
and notices (selected):
David Cohen, Imitating the Primitive, New York Sun, January 4, 2007.
Holland Cotter, Primitivism Revisited, The New York Times, January 19, 2007.
June 2006. Organized with
curator Noah Sheldon, Mystic River, Southfirst gallery.
Reviews and notices (selected):
Holland Cotter, Mystic River at Southfirst, The New York Times, May 19, 2006.
November-December, 2006.
Organizer with curator Ghariokwu Lemi, Political Cartoons from Nigeria, Southfirst
gallery.
Reviews
and notices:
Holland
Cotter, African Comics, Far Beyond the Funny Pages, The New York Times, November 24, 2006.
February March, 2005.
Curator, Noah Sheldon: Almost Vegetarian, Southfirst gallery.
Reviews and notices:
Holland
Cotter, Noah Sheldon: Almost Vegetarian, The
New York Times, March 4, 2005.
Roger White, Noah Sheldon, The Brooklyn
Rail, March 1, 2005.
June July, 2004.
Curator, Sadie Hawkins Dance, Southfirst gallery.
Reviews and notices:
Holland
Cotter, Sadie Hawkins Dance, The New York
Times, June 25, 2004.
January 2002. Curator,
Sean Dack: No Encore, Southfirst gallery.
Reviews and notices:
Roberta
Smith, Sean Dack at Southfirst, The New
York Times, January 18, 2002.
2001-02. Curatorial
Assistant for chief curator Klaus Biesenbach, Kim Sooja, Loop, and Summer
Warm-up, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Queens.
INVITED LECTURES
AND SYMPOSIA:
December 2016 Universit
Bordeaux Montaigne, Centre Franois-Georges Pariset and Muse des beaux-arts de
Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France: From Redon to Relational Aesthetics,
November 2015 Association
of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art (AHNCA), Dahesh Museum: Unconscious
Nature: Odilon Redons Portraits of La Femme Nouvelle, 18991910
March 2011: Philadelphia
Museum of Art: Eyes Closed: Odilon Redon and Molyneuxs Problem
February 2010 College Art
Association Annnual Conference (Chicago): Artist-Run Galleries: Reena
Spaulings, The Suburban, and Orchard
March 2010 The New Museum
and The New School: Brion Gysin: Eyes Closed in association with the
exhibition Brion Gysin: Dream Machine, curated by Laura Hoptman
April 2006 Princeton
University Co-organized with Alex Kitnick. The Making of Artists
2006 Stonybrook
University: Contemporary Art and the New York Scene
AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS AND HONORS:
2011-12 Quin Morton
Teaching Fellow, Princeton University
2010 Princeton University;
cole
Normale Suprieure visiting scholar
2010 Princeton Program in
American Studies grant
2009-10 Princeton
Department of Art & Archaeology Graduate Committee grant
2009 Princeton Institute
for International and Regional Studies Grant
2002 French Cultural Services of the French Embassy, New York
and the City of Paris grant
2000 Mortimer Brandeis-Hays fellowship
1997 Joseph Pulitzer, Jr.
grant
1996 Ford Foundation Student
Grant to support research on photography
1994 National Endowment
for the Humanities Younger Scholar
Professional
Service
Exhibition curator,
Barbara Walters Gallery, Sarah Lawrence College (2015, 2016)
Bard College Language
& Thinking curriculum committee (2014-15)
Bard College hiring
committee (2016)
Bard College faculty
teaching mentor (2012-2016)
Princeton Writing Program
Undergraduate essay-writing prize committee (2012, 2013)
Columbia University teaching
mentor for graduate student instructors (2004-2005).
PhD Dissertation Committees
2016-17, Columbia
University, Esther Kim (outside reader)
Professional Service (Panels, Talks, Lectures,
Juries):
Whitney Museum, NY
Socrates Sculpture Center,
NY
University of California,
Irvine
Princeton University
Sarah Lawrence College
UNC Greensboro, NC
SVA, NY
Maryland Institute College
of Art, Baltimore
SUNY Purchase
NYU
Georgia State University
Queens Council for the
Arts
Columbia University School
of the Arts
Ecole des Hautes-Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris
Peggy Guggenheim
Collection, Venice, Italy.
Professional Affiliations
College Art Association
New Art Dealers
Association
Additional Qualifications
2005 M.F. A. Non-Fiction
Writing, Columbia University
2005-present BARD COLLEGE
Faculty
in the Program for Language & Thinking, a summer writing seminar.
2003-2005 COLUMBIA
UNIVERSITY
Graduate
Instructor (2003-2005) Undergraduate Writing Program. Instructor Advanced
Creative Writing (2004) School of General Studies.