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Rhea Anastas (born March 11, 1969, in
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) is an
art historian Art history is the study of artistic works made throughout human history. Among other topics, it studies art’s formal qualities, its impact on societies and cultures, and how artistic styles have changed throughout history. Traditionally, the ...
,
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,
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and an associate professor at the Department of Art,
University of California, Irvine The University of California, Irvine (UCI or UC Irvine) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Irvine, California, United States. One of the ten campuses of the University of California system, U ...
. She was also one of the founding members of
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, an experimental artist-run gallery on the
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of
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in New York. Previously Anastas has taught at the Art and Curatorial Practices in the Public Sphere program at the Roski School of Art and Design,
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, The Center for Curatorial Studies and Art in Contemporary Culture at
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, and was a lecturer at the
Mason Gross School of the Arts Mason Gross School of the Arts ("Mason Gross" or "MGSA") is the arts conservatory at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Mason Gross offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in art, design, dance, filmmaking, music, and theater. Ma ...
at Rutgers University. Anastas received her B.A. and M.A. in Art History from
Columbia University Columbia University in the City of New York, commonly referred to as Columbia University, is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Churc ...
in 1990 and 1995 respectively, and her PhD in Art History from the
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in 2004. Her dissertation was titled ''The Whole Artist: Dan Graham and Robert Smithson, Works and Writings, 1965–69''.


Work


Books

* *Anastas, Rhea (2012)
''Allan McCollum''
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. * *


Curatorial projects

*''New Cuts, K8 Hardy'', January 10-March 20, 2015, University Art Galleries, University of California, Irvine. *Art in Embassies Exhibition, Curator, with Barbara Piwowarska, U.S. Embassy Residence, Warsaw, Poland (for Ambassador Lee A. Feinstein), October 2010 through 2011. Artists exhibited:
Jo Baer Josephine Gail Baer (née Kleinberg; August 7, 1929 – January 21, 2025) was an American painter associated with minimalist art. She began exhibiting her work at the Fischbach Gallery, New York, and other venues for contemporary art in the mid- ...
,
Melvin Edwards Melvin "Mel" Edwards (born May 4, 1937) is an American Abstract art, abstract Sculpture, sculptor, Printmaking, printmaker, and Visual arts education, arts educator. Edwards, an African-American artist, was raised in Racial segregation in the Un ...
, Louise Lawler,
Zoe Leonard Zoe Leonard (born 1961) is an American artist who works primarily with photography and sculpture. She has exhibited widely since the late 1980s and her work has been included in a number of seminal exhibitions including documenta, Documenta IX and ...
, Jadwiga Maziarska,
Lorraine O’Grady Lorraine O'Grady (September 21, 1934 – December 13, 2024) was an American artist, writer, translator, and critic. Working in conceptual art and performance art that integrates photo and video installation, she explored the cultural construct ...
, Włodzimierz Pawlak, R. H. Quaytman,
Allan Sekula Allan Sekula (January 15, 1951 – August 10, 2013) was an American photographer, writer, filmmaker, theorist and critic. From 1985 until his death in 2013, he taught at California Institute of the Arts. His work frequently focused on large economi ...
,
Jack Whitten Jack Whitten (December 5, 1939 – January 20, 2018) was an American abstract painter and sculptor, who was part of the Black Abstractionism canon. According to the Museum of Modern Art, he "invented art-making techniques that were the first of ...
, Petra Wunderlich. *Orchard, 2005–2008, co-founder, organizer of various exhibitions and programs.


Articles and essays

*''Language is the social dress'' in Josephine Pryde, The Enjoyment of Photography. Zurich: JRP Ringier and Kunsthalle Bern, 2015. *''Models of the Feminist Everyday'' in Jennifer Bornstein. Berlin: Buchhandlung Walther König and Berliner Künstlerprogram der DAAD, 2015. *''The Artist Is a Currency'' Rhea Anastas, Gregg Bordowitz, Andrea Fraser, Jutta Koether, Glenn Ligon, in Reading/Feeling, eds. Tanja Baudoin, Frédérique Bergholtz and Vivian Ziherl. Amsterdam: If I Can't Dance, I Don't Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution, 2013. Reprint of 2006 roundtable for Grey Room no. 24 and Documenta 12. *''Individual and Unreal: Agnes Martin’s Writings in 1973'' in Agnes Martin, eds. Lynne Cooke, Karen Kelly and Barbara Schröder. New Haven: Yale University Press and the Dia Art Foundation, New York, 2011, pages 132–152. *''Minimal Difference: The John Daniels Gallery and the First Works of Dan Graham'' in Dan Graham: Beyond, eds. Bennett Simpson and Chrissie Iles. Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art; Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2009, pages 110–126. *''‘Not in eulogy not in praise but in fact': Ruth Vollmer and Others, 1966–70'' in Nadja Rottner and Peter Weibel, eds. Ruth Vollmer 1961–1978 Thinking the Line. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2006, pages 71–85. *''The Reconstruction Process: Barry Le Va, 1968–1975'' in Ingrid Schaffner, ed. Barry Le Va: Accumulated Vision. Philadelphia: The Institute of Contemporary Art, 2005, pages 36–53.


References

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