EDUCATION:
Ph.D., Stanford University, Art History, 2002
Dissertation: “Circuits of Exchange: The Myth of Interactivity in Video Art”
M.A., Stanford University, Art History, 1996
B.A., Vassar College, Honors in Art History, 1993
EXPERIENCE:
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT, October, 2007 to September, 2008
- Curator, Karin Davie: Symptomania, Huma Bhabha (2008 Aldrich Emerging Artist Award Winner) co-curator, Serge Spitzer, Still Life
Parrish Art Museum, Robert Lehman Curator of Art, September, 2005 to October, 2007
- Co-curator with artist Eric Fischl, All the More Real, a group exhibition on realism and hyperrealism,
- Originated contemporary artist and lectures series including K-N-O-C-K-O-U-T, a drum performance on a sonic table designed by Doug Aitken
- Coordinating curator, Encouraging American Genius: Masterworks from the Corcoran Gallery of Art (June-August, 2005).
- Courses include survey on the history of video art and a seminar on site-specificity and installation art
- Taught graduate and undergraduate courses and seminars, including Art and Perception in the Machine Age, History of Video and Online Art, Critical Theory and New Media.
- Curator, How To: The Paintings of Deborah Oropallo.
- Curator, Blind Vision: Video and the Limits of Perception, museum’s first video exhibition which included several commissioned works acquired by the museum.
- Co-curated Refresh: The Art of the Screen Saver, a digital exhibition, exhibited at the Stanford Museum as well as online at www.ArtMuseum.net and at newmediacenter.com, the online space for the Institute of Contemporary Art in London.
- Symposium Director and Speaker, Attraction/Distraction: Perceptual Conditions of Media Art, a full day event with 20 curators, educators and artists
- Research assistant to former Curator of Media Arts Bob Reilly, wrote videography for media arts collection, public lecturer for Bill Viola and Seeing Time exhibitions, taught media studies group for docents and wrote introductory guide to video art for Education Department.
PUBLICATIONS:
Exhibition Catalogues:
- “Temporal Visions: Video Art by Wangechi Mutu, Berni Searle and Kara Walker” in Cinema Remixed and Reloaded: Black Women and Video Art, 1970 to the Present (forthcoming anthology published by Spelman College).
- “Dean Byington at Leslie Tonkonow,” Frieze Magazine, (April, 2008)
- Rachel Hovnanian, exhibition catalogue, Jason McCoy Gallery, November, 2007
- All the More Real, exhibition catalogue, Parrish Art Museum, August, 2007
- How-To: The Art of Deborah Oropallo, San Jose Museum of Art, 2002
- “Interview with new SFMOMA Director Neal Benezra, Artweek, March, 2002
- “Alan Rath’s Friendly Machines,” Artweek, January, 2000