List Of Whitney Biennial Curators
This is a complete list of Whitney Biennial curators who have curated or are scheduled to curate the Whitney Biennial Art exhibition, exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, New York, New York City, United States. The Whitney Biennial began as an annual exhibition in 1932, the first biennial was in 1973. History The Whitney Museum had a long history beginning in 1932 of having a large group exhibition of invited American artists every year called the 'Whitney Annual'. In the late sixties, it was decided to alternate between painting and sculpture, although by the 1970s the decision was to combine both together in a biennial.Carol Vogel (November 29, 2012)Whitney Museum Announces Biennial Plans ''New York Times''. The first biennial was curated by a curatorial committee under direction of director John I. H. Baur. The 1975 Whitney Biennial, the first to credit Curator, curators with the show curation, acknowledged the five person curatorial team of John Hanhardt ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Whitney Biennial
The Whitney Biennial is a biennial exhibition of contemporary American art, typically by young and lesser known artists, on display at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, United States. The event began as an annual exhibition in 1932; the first biennial was in 1973. The Whitney show is generally regarded as one of the leading shows in the art world, often setting or leading trends in contemporary art. It helped bring artists like Georgia O'Keeffe, Jackson Pollock, and Jeff Koons to prominence. Artists In 2010, for the first time a majority of the 55 artists included in that survey of contemporary American art were women. The 2012 exhibition featured 51 artists, the smallest number in the event's history. The fifty-one artists for 2012 were selected by curator Elisabeth Sussman and freelance curator Jay Sanders. It was open for three months up to 27 May 2012 and presented for the first time "heavy weight" on dance, music and theatre. Those performance art va ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Mia Locks
Mia Locks is a contemporary art curator and museum leader. Career Professional Experience Mia Locks is an independent curator and writer based in Los Angeles. She co-founded and leads Museums Moving Forward, a data-driven research initiative to support equity in the art museum sector, funded bFord FoundationanMellon Foundation She serves on the board oClockshop an arts organization in Los Angeles. She is also an editorial advisor on the podcastsHope & Dread: The Tectonic Shifts of Power in Art" " anThe Art World: What If...?! Previously, Locks worked as a curator at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and MoMA PS1, New York. Most recently, she was Senior Curator and Head of New Initiatives at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Prior to MOCA, Locks was co-curator of the 2017 Whitney Biennial, with Christopher Y. Lew. At MoMA PS1, she organized exhibitions including Math Bass: ''Off the Clock'' (2015); IM Heung- ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Christiane Paul (curator)
Christiane Paul is chief curator/director of the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons School of Design and an associate professor in the School of Media Studies at The New School, and Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. She is widely known as the author of the book ''Digital Art'', part of the 'World of Art' series published by Thames & Hudson. Education Paul received both her MA and PhD from the University of Düsseldorf in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Career Paul has written extensively on digital art and lectured internationally on art and technology. Paul has previously taught in the MFA computer arts department at the School of Visual Arts in New York (1999–2008); the Digital+Media Department of the Rhode Island School of Design (2005–08); the San Francisco Art Institute and the Center of New Media at the University of California at Berkeley (2008). In 2016, Paul was the recipient of the Thoma Founda ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Lawrence Rinder
Lawrence R. Rinder is a contemporary art curator and museum director. He directed the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) from 2008 to 2020. Education Rinder received a B.A. in art from Reed College and an M.A. in art history from Hunter College. He has held teaching positions at UC Berkeley, Columbia University, and Deep Springs College. He was the Dean of Graduate Studies at California College of the Arts in San Francisco, a position he was appointed to in 2004. Career Exhibitions Rinder served as the Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator of Contemporary Art at the Whitney Museum of American Art where he organized exhibitions including "The American Effect", "BitStreams", the 2002 Whitney Biennial, and "Tim Hawkinson", which was given the 2005 award for best monographic exhibition in a New York museum by the United States chapter of the International Association of Art Critics. Prior to the Whitney, Rinder was founding director of the CCA Wattis Institute for Con ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Philippe Vergne
Philippe Vergne (born 1966) is a French curator and director of the Serralves Contemporary Art Museum. Until March 2019, he was director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA). He was the director of the Dia Art Foundation, New York from 2008 to 2014 and the deputy director and Chief Curator of the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, from 2005 to 2008. Education Vergne was born in Troyes, France in 1966. He received a BA in law from Panthéon-Assas University, Paris, in 1988, a BA in archeology and the history of modern art from Paris-Sorbonne University, Paris, where he also got a MA in 1991 and a MAS in 1992. Career He became director of the newly created Mac (Musée d’Art Contemporain, Marseille) in 1994 until 1997. He then was hired by the Walker Art Center as a senior curator from 1997 to 2005. Francois Pinault then hired him to head the François Pinault Foundation for Contemporary Art. He came back to the Walker in 2005 as a deputy director and was the ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Thelma Golden
Thelma Golden (born 1965 in St. Albans, Queens) is the Director and Chief Curator of The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York City, United States. Golden joined the Museum as Deputy Director for Exhibitions and Programs in 2000 before succeeding Dr. Lowery Stokes Sims, the Museum's former Director and President, in 2005. She is noted as one of the originators of the term Post-Blackness. Early life and education Thelma Golden grew up in Queens, New York. She had her first hands-on training as a senior in high school at the New Lincoln School, training as a curatorial apprentice at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Golden's decision to become a curator was inspired by Lowery Stokes Sims, the first African-American curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She graduated from Buckley Country Day School in 1980 and earned a B.A. in Art History and African-American Studies from Smith College in 1987. Golden helped put several exhibitions together at the Smith College Museum of ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Donna De Salvo
Donna De Salvo is an American curator who was appointed the Dia Art Foundation's senior adjunct curator of special projects. She previously served as the Chief Curator and Deputy Director for Programs at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Career From 1981 to 1986 De Salvo was a curator at the Dia Art Foundation in New York. De Salvo served as Senior Curator at Tate Modern in London, where she worked from 1999 to 2004. During her time at Tate Modern, she organized exhibitions on Giorgio Morandi, Andy Warhol, and one of the Turbine Hall commissions, "The Unilever Series: Anish Kapoor (2002)." De Salvo came to the Whitney in 2004 and became the first to become promoted to Chief Curator in 2006. In this capacity, she organized exhibitions on artists like Warhol, Hélio Oiticica, Michael Heizer, and Steve McQueen, among others. In July 2015, she became the Deputy Director for International Initiatives at the Whitney, a new position created to source and cultivate i ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Shamim M
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Henriette Huldisch
Henriette Huldisch is a German-born American curator of contemporary art. She is currently the Chief Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Prior to that, she was the Director of Exhibitions at the MIT List Visual Arts Center in Boston, Massachusetts. Education Huldisch, an expert on film and video, started working in the museum world in 2001 immediately after she graduated NYU’s film-studies program. Originally from Hamburg, Germany, Huldisch came to the United States after receiving a first master’s in American studies at Berlin’s Humboldt University. Career From 2001 to 2008, Huldisch was an Assistant Curator at the Whitney, where she co-curated the 2008 Whitney Biennial with Shamim M. Momin. Arthur C. Danto, reviewing the Biennial in ''The Nation'', praised Huldisch's characterisation of 'Lessness. An Art of Smaller, Slower, and Less' in her catalog essay as "well said and wise". From 2010 to 2014, Huldisch wa ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Francesco Bonami
Francesco Bonami (b. Florence, 1955) is an Italian art curator and writer who is currently Honorary Director of Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin. He lives in Milan and Manhattan, New York.Rachel Wolff (February 14, 2010)112 Minutes With Francesco Bonami''New York Magazine''. Life and career Bonami was born in Florence. He studied Set and Theatre Design at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze. After a brief spell as an artist in Milan, Bonami relocated to New York City in 1991 where he was appointed U.S. Editor of ''Flash Art'' magazine, a post he held until 1998. From 1999 to 2008 he was Manilow Senior Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and Artistic Director of Fondazione Pitti Discovery in Florence and Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin. From 2004 through 2008 he was Artistic Director of the Villa Manin Contemporary Art Center in Codroipo, Italy. He directed the 2nd edition of the SITE Santa Fe Biennial in 1997, the 50th Venice Biennale in ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ed Halter
Ed Halter is a film programmer, writer, and founder of Light Industry, a microcinema in Brooklyn, New York. He currently teaches at Bard College, where he is Critic in Residence. Criticism His writing has been featured in '' Artforum'', ''The Believer'', '' Bookforum'', ''Cinema Scope'', '' frieze'', ''Little Joe'', ''Mousse'', Rhizome, Triple Canopy, and '' Village Voice.'' Halter is interested in the intersection of video games, digital media, and American experimental film. Books His first book ''From Sun Tzu to Xbox'' was released in 2006. He has edited the compilation ''Mass Effect: Art and the Internet in the Twenty First Century'' (2015), with Lauren Cornell. His edited volume ''From The Third Eye: The Evergreen Review Film Reader'' was published by Seven Stories Press in 2018; it is a compilation of essays from ''Evergreen Review'' which were published from 1950-1970. Film programming Halter has programmed and worked on various film festivals, particularly the ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Elisabeth Sussman
Elisabeth Sussman is an American art curator. She currently works at the Sondra Gilman Curator of Photography at the Whitney Museum of American Art. In 2013 she was awarded the Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence from The Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College Bard College is a private liberal arts college in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. The campus overlooks the Hudson River and Catskill Mountains, and is within the Hudson River Historic District—a National Historic Landmark. Founded in 18 ..., in recognition of her 40-year career as a groundbreaking curator. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Sussman, Elisabeth Living people American art curators American women curators People associated with the Whitney Museum of American Art Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American women ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |