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Judith Russi KirshnerProfessor of Art and Design, Professor of Art History, Dean of the College of Architecture and the Arts College of Architecture and the Arts (M/C 033) EducationInstitutions
Awards
Academic and Administrative Appointments1997-Present Dean, College of Architecture and the Arts, University of Illinois at Chicago 1990-97 Director, School of Art and Design, The University of Illinois at Chicago 1990-Present Professor, School of Art and Design, Department of History of Art and Architecture, The University of Illinois at Chicago 1988-89 Chair, Graduate Division, School of the Art Institute, Chicago 1987-89 Associate Professor, Art History Department, School of the Art Institute, Chicago 1985-87 Curator, Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago 1981-87 Assistant Professor, Art History Department, School of the Art Institute, Chicago 1980-83 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Graduate Art Department, The University of Illinois at Chicago 1976-80 Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago 1974-76 Assistant Promotion Manager, University of Chicago Press 1971-72 Assistant Director, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago 1969-70 Instructor, Art History Department, Dutchess Community College, Poughkeepsie, NY Publications2007 Voices & Images of Italian Feminism, Wack! Art and the Feminist Revolution, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angelos Art Schools Symposium, Art in America (May) 2005 “Between the Museum and the City,” Garofalo Architects, MCA Chicago, College of Architecture and the Arts, University of Illinois at Chicago. “Institutional,” Scott Fortino, Catalogue essay, Columbia College in Chicago, Center for American Places, New Mexico. “Roni Horn,” Artforum 2004 “Carol Rama: A Memorable Exception,” Catalogue essay, 2004 2003 “Marlene Dumas.” Review, Frieze Magazine, June “Photography Refco Collection.” Catalogue essay, Refco Collection of Photography, D.A.P., New York, pp. 27-43 “Overrated – Underrated.” Chicago Magazine, January “The Idea of Community,” Chapter in Gordon Matta-Clark, Phaidon, N.Y., pp. 147-161, April “Gaylen Gerber.” Catalogue essay, Whitewalls, special issue (forthcoming) Dreaming Red: Creating ArtPace, ed. Jarboe Russell 2002 “Gary Simmons (Review).” Artforum, May 2001 Foreword, Constructed Ground, Millennium Park Competition, City of Chicago, University of Illinois Press “Palermo Hollywood: Maurizio Cattelan.” New Art Examiner, (September-October) 2000 Essays on “Arturo Herrera, Tracey Rose, Rebecca Holland.” ArtPace Foundation for Contemporary Art, San Antonio, Texas “Christina Ramberg Drawings.” Catalogue essay for Christina Ramberg Exhibition, Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago 1999 Entries on “Museum of Contemporary Art”, “Hyde Park Center” for Encyclopedia of Chicago History, University of Chicago Press 1998 "Ann Wilson." Catalogue essay, Revolution Gallery, Detroit and New York 1997 "Yayoi Kusama." Catalogue essay, The Arts Club of Chicago "Alexander Calder." Chapter in History of the Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago 1996 "Resisting Regionalism." Chapter in Chicago Art 1945-1995, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago "Julia Fish." Catalogue essay, Renaissance Society, University of Chicago "About Place." Artforum, (November) 1995 “Rodney Carswell.” Catalogue essay, Corcoran Biennial Exhibition, Washington, D.C. "Monet Exhibition: A Trip to Bountiful." Los Angeles Times, July 22, 1995 1994 “Phyllis Bramson.” Catalogue essay, Corcoran Biennial Exhibition, Washington, D.C. "Muntadas: The File Room." Randolph St. Gallery, Chicago "Correspondences." Catalogue essay, Exhibition, Berlinisch Gallery Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany and Cultural Center, Chicago 1993 "Dara Birnbaum.” Forum, Belgium, (March) "Vivid: American Photography." Exhibition, Galerie Raab, Berlin, Germany "Ketty LaRocca: I and You." Artforum, (March) 1992 “Gordon Matta-Clark.” Essay in Gordon Matta-Clark, IVAM Centre Julio Gonzalez, Valencia, Spain "Counter Proposals." Atlanta Art Papers, (Fall) “Vera Klement.” Brody Gallery, Washington, D.C., (February) “Open Spain.” Aperture, (February) 1991 "Martin Puryear." Artforum, (December) “Tom Otterness.” Catalogue essay, IVAM Centre Julio Gonzalez, Valencia, Spain (traveled to Frankfurt & The Hague) 1990 Cover Story, "Read Read Rosen." Artforum, (December) "Redefining Conceptualism." Gerald Elliot Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago (includes Jenny Holzer, Vito Acconci, Sherrie Levine, and Richard Prince.) Catalogue Essay, Refco Corporation Collection, Chicago/New York 1989 “Laurie Palmer.” Catalogue essay, Artists' Space, New York "Signs of Life." Catalogue Essay, International Sculpture Exhibition, Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal 1988 "The Benefit of Doubt." Artforum, (November) Review of Anselm Kiefer exhibition, Artforum, (March) 1987 "Surfaces: Two Decades of Painting in Chicago Seventies and Eighties." Catalogue essay, Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago "Collecting the Image of America: Charles Willson Peale's The Artist in His Museum and Samuel F. B. Morse's Gallery of the Louvre." in A Proud Heritage: Two Centuries of American Art, Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago “Martin Puryear.” Catalogue essay exhibition, Cultural Center, Chicago 1986 "Mythos: Beyond Function-Recent Sculpture." Catalogue essay, Gary Justis exhibition Alexandria Art Museum, Alexandria, LA "The RSM Collection Exhibition." Cincinnati Art Museum, OH 1985 "The Collection Exhibition." Artforum, (May) "Non-Uments." (Gordon Matta-Clark), Artforum, (October) "Possibility of the Avant-Garde." Formations, (Fall) "Public Sculpture Carves Out Its Niche." Chicago Sun Times, May 5 “Philip Hanson.” Catalogue essay, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago "The Sol Lewitt Wall Project." Art in Public Places, Chicago "Michiko Itatani." Catalogue essay, The Alternative Museum, New York 1984 "Collecting Italian Art in Chicago." Catalogue essay, Contemporary Italian Masters, Chicago Council on Fine Arts and Renaissance Society, Chicago "A Blinding Light: Jeff Wall." Reallife Magazine, nos. 11-12, (Winter) 1983 "Tom Otterness' Frieze." Artforum, (October) 1982 "Thieves Like Us." Artforum, (September) 1981-2003 Numerous reviews for Artforum: (selected) June Leaf, Phil Berkman, Daniel Buren, Margaret Wharton, Louise Bourgeois, Charles Simonds, Richard Rezac, Tom Kovachevich, John Obuck, The Compassionate Image, Hollis Sigler, Susan Michod, Eva Hesse, Gary Justis, Charles Wilson, Ken Shorr, Dieter Roth, Karl Wirsum, Peter Joseph, Will Northerner, Robert Lostutter, Don Baum, Nancy Spero, Barry Flanagan, Richard Deacon, Martin Puryear, Michiko Itatani, Gaylen Gerber, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Jean Dunning, Dan Peterman and others 1980 "Vito Acconci: A Retrospective.” Catalogue essay, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago "Interview with Vito Acconci." Interview Magazine, (May) "Options II: Martin Puryear." Catalogue essay, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago 1979 "Wall Painting: Ryman, Hafif, Pozzi, Yasuda Jackson." Catalogue essay, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago 1978 "Gordon Matta-Clark: Circus of the Caribbean Orange." Catalogue essay, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago "Claes Oldenburg: The Mouse Museum. The Ray Gun Wing.” Catalogue essay, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago "Words at Liberty." Catalogue essay, (Group exhibition on theme of language in visual art) Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago 1976 “John Storrs.” Catalogue essay, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago “David Gilhooly.” Catalogue essay, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Exhibitions Curated2000-01 Christina Ramberg Drawings Exhibition. Gallery 400, UIC (Traveled to Herron Gallery (Indianapolis, Indiana), Madison arts Center (Madison, Wisconsin), Marsh Art Gallery (Richmond, Virginia) 1998 New Artists, 1998. Organizing Committee, Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago 1994-95 Correspondences. Exhibition of artists from Berlin and Chicago at Berlinische Galerie Gropius Bau, Berlin (Nov. 1994) and Cultural Center Chicago (April), co-organized with Gregory Knight and Ursula Prinz 1989 Signs of Life, Exhibition of Encontros: Thirteen American Sculptors. (Artschwager, Lewitt, Acconci, Nauman, Koons, Tasset, Shea, Wilson, Holzer, McCullom, Graham, Birnbaum, Fischer) organized for Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal 1987 Surfaces: Two Decades of Chicago Painting Seventies and Eighties. Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago 1982 The Salon Show. Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago 1981 City Sculpture. Chicago Public Library, Cultural Center, Chicago Council on Fine Arts 1974 William de Kooning, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago. Organized for the Museum of Contemporary Art:1980 Vito Acconci: A Retrospective, 1969-80. Balthus in Chicago. Options II: Martin Puryear. 1979 Outsider Art in Chicago. (co-curated) Wall painting: Marcia Hafif, Richard Jackson, Lucio Pozzi, Robert Ryman, Robert Yasuda. Michael Asher Installation. 1978 Art in a Turbulent Era: German and Austrian Expressionism. Gordon Matta-Clark: Circus of the Caribbean Orange Installation. Lynn Foulkes Retrospective. June Leaf Retrospective. Frida Kahlo Retrospective. 1977 Claes Oldenburg: The Mouse Museum, The Ray Gun Wing. Words at Liberty. 1976 Manierre Dawson/John Storrs. David Gihooly Administered/Installed at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago:1978-80 Exhibitions of the Museum's Permanent Collection: Selected Works, Selected Sculpture. Promised Gifts, and Robert B. Mayer Memorial Loan Collection. 1979 Barnett Newman: The Complete Drawings. (The Baltimore Museum of Art) Fotografia Polska. (International Center for Photography, New York) 1978 Adolf Wolfli. (Kunstmuseum, Bern) Building Reborn. (The Architectural League, New York) Alfred Jensen. (Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo) 1977 Improbable Furniture. (The Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia) Antoni Tapies: 33 Years of His Work. (Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo) Alfred Leslie. (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) The Photographer and the City. (Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago) 1976 Will Insley. (Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago) Joel Shapiro. (Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago) Invited Lectures and Presentations (selected)2007 Museum of Contemporary Art, Moderator, 40th Anniversary 2006 Art Institute of Chicago, moderator panel, Mel Bochner 2005 Royal Academy, Copenhagen, Visiting Critic, lecture Gordon Matta-Clark 2003 “Imagining America Conference.” University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (November) 2002 “Imagining America Conference.” University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (November) “Dialogue with Judith Russi Kirshner, Elizabeth Smith and Jane Crawford: Matta and Matta-Clark” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (October) “Disconcerting Images, Paintings of Women by Gerhard Richter.” The Art Institute of Chicago (August) “Portraits in Arte Povera.” Museum of Contemporary Art, Geffen, Los Angeles, CA (July) 2001 “In the Flesh: Lucian Freud’s Revealing Portraits.” The Chicago Humanities Festival XII: Words and Pictures; The Art Institute of Chicago, Panelist (November) “Art: the Next Generation.” The Chicago Art Dealers Association (CADA); The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Panelist (July) “Self-Portrait: Carla Lonzi.” Tate Gallery Museum, London (Arte Povera Exhibition), (June) “Frank Lloyd Wright: The Art and Craft of the Machine.” University of Illinois at Chicago (March) “The Ivory Divide: Living to Write vs. Writing to Live.” International Association of Art Critics (AICA) The College Art Association Conference, Panelist “The Surreal, The Hyperreal and Virtually Real.” The College Art Association, Moderator with Elizabeth Smith “Urban Trends & their Impact on Chicago Arts Organizations.” Illinois Arts Alliance Foundation 2000 The Association of University Architects Conference, Panelist Chicago Tonight, television presentation, Panelist “The Artist as Critic.” The Arts Club, Chicago “Installations by Arturo Herrera, Tracey Rose and Rebecca Holland.” ArtPace, San Antonio, Texas 1999 “Public Sculpture.” Portland State University, Portland, Oregon “Public Sculpture; the work of Tom Otterness.” Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington “Gerhard Richter: Reality and Representation.” Lecture Series (3 part) The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago 1998 “Millennium Fever.” The Art Institute of Chicago “Criticism Today.” Lunchtime lecture, The Arts Club, Chicago "Gerhard Richter." The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago 1997 Chicago Tonight, television presentation, Panelist, (May) Television appearance, Art Beat (Arts Club - Kusama Exhibition) Television appearance, Art Beat (Art Institute - Lannan Exhibition) "The Work of Jeff Wall." Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA "Contemporary Art: Issues of Gender and Diversity." Cranbrook School of Art, Cranbrook, MI "Art in Chicago, 1970 to the present." Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago 1996 “Interview with Robert Gober.” Society for Contemporary Art, Art Institute of Chicago "Toward Visual Literacy." Illinois Art Education Conference, Moderator 1995 "Cultural Diversity in Art and Design." National Association of Schools of Art and Design Annual Conference, Panelist, Chicago "Robert Smithson/Tony Tasset." Museum of Contemporary Art, Panelist, Chicago Planning Advisory Panel, National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, D. C. Panel Critics and Collectors, ARCO (International Art Exhibition), Moderator, Madrid, Spain 1994 “House Rules Exhibition.” Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH “Chicago Art and Criticism Workshop.” Art Academy of Cincinnati, OH "Division of Labor: The Gendered Workplace." The School of the Art Institute, Moderator, Chicago "Feminism, Theory and Visual Art." Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago “New Urban Cultures: Berlin and Chicago.” Goethe Institute, Moderator, Chicago "Critical Approaches to Contemporary Art." Northwestern University, Evanston 1993 "Women Who Lead." Columbia College, Chicago, (April) “Panel discussion with Jennifer Bartlett.” Richard Gray Gallery, (March) 1992 "Language and Women Artists." Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL "Figures of Speech: Women, Language, Art." Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM “Chicago Artists Collector's Circle.” Museum of Contemporary Art, Moderator "Docûmenta IX." Society for Contemporary Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, Moderator 1991 "Martin Puryear: Second Nature." The Art Institute of Chicago, (December) “German Art--Anniversary of Reunification, Goethe Institute.” Moderator, Chicago, (October) “Artists' Project Panel.” National Endowment for the Arts, Member, (April) 1990 "Chicago Artists in the 80's." Whitney Museum Council Meeting "Synching Feelings." School of Architecture, University of Illinois at Chicago 1989 "From the Center: Re-Viewed." Palmer Museum of Art. Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA "How Women Represent Themselves in Contemporary Art." The University of Arizona, Tucson "From the Center: Re-Viewed." Burke Lecture, Art History Department, University of Indiana, Bloomington, IN 1988 "Regionalism Revisited." Mountain Lake Symposium, Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, PA "Resisting Architecture: Remembering Gordon Matta-Clark." New School for Social Research, New York "Contemporary Art in Chicago." Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO 1987 "Feminist Criticism and Contemporary Painting." Layton Lecture, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee "Know Your Chicago." 1987 Symposium, The University of Chicago, Office of Continuing Education 1986 Respondent, Chicago Art History Colloquium (Artists' writings) 1985 "Tracking the Avant-Garde." The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Moderator "What's New in Chicago Art." Renaissance Society, State of Illinois Building, Moderator, Chicago "The Critical Edge." Northside Affiliates, Museum of Contemporary Art "Postmodernism and Contemporary Art." Evanston Art Center, Illinois 1984 "Regional Criticism." Mid-America College Art Association, Cleveland "Contemporary Italian Painting." Cultural Center, Chicago Council on Fine Arts 1983 "New Landscapes of Theory and Criticism." Oxbow, Saugatuck, MI 1982 "New Painting, A View from the Studio." Art Museum Association, National Meeting, Chicago 1977-80 Numerous lectures on exhibitions curated at Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, as well as traveling exhibitions hosted by MCA. Recorded numerous television, videotape, and radio lectures 1979 "Artist's Choice, Critic's Choice, Architect's Choice." The University of Illinois at Chicago Panel Moderator, Women's Caucus for Art Program, 42nd Annual Mid-America College Art Association Conference, Detroit 1978 "German Expressionism Revisited." The J. B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY 1977 "The Changing Relationship Between Museum and Artist." N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago Courses Taught(at The School of the Art Institute and University of Illinois at Chicago)2003 Public(s) Art(s), Interdisciplinary Seminar, co-taught with Professors Doug Garofalo and Hannah Higgins (Spring Semester) Criticism Writing Workshop, Art History Survey, Modern Art Since 1945, Contemporary Art Movements, Modernism and Postmodernism, Sculpture Since 1945, Seminars on Artist as Critic, History of Modern Art Criticism, Curatorial Practices: Museum Colloquium. National Professional Service (invited)2003 Reviewer, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Imagining America Fellowship Program Professional Arts Peer, Design Excellence Program, General Services Administration (GSA), Chicago, IL 2002 Professional Arts Peer, Design Excellence Program, General Services Administration (GSA), Washington, D.C. Jurror, Spertus Institute, Burnham Prize Competition, Chicago Juror, U.S. General Services Administration, 536 South Clark Street Project, Chicago 2001 Juror, Cultural Center Consortium, Metropolitan Dade County, Florida Juror, The Arts Council, Artists Fellowship, Chicago 2000 - Exhibition Committee, Arts Club of Chicago Nominator, Tiffany Foundation Awards 1998 The Chicago Network, Chicago Panelist, Oversight Panel (multidisciplinary), National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, D.C. 1997 Panelist, Combined Arts Panel, National Endowment for the Arts, Washington D.C. 1994 Member, Committee on the Status of Women, College Art Association Panelist, Getty Art History Information Program, College Art Association Meeting, New York 1993 Member, National Endowment for the Arts Panel on Presenting & Commissioning/Visual Arts, Washington D.C., January Reviewer, Getty Art History Information Program, Santa Monica, CA, April 1992 Overview Panel - Visual Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, Washington D.C. Member, National Endowment for the Arts Panel on Presenting & Commissioning/Visual Arts, Washington D.C., February Member, Committee on Status of Women, College Art Association 1987 Member, Challenge Review Committee, National Endowment for the Arts, Washington D.C. Member, National Endowment for the Arts Review Board, Washington D.C. 1986 Panelist, Visual Artists Organizations, National Endowment for the Arts, Washington D.C. 1980 Advisory Panel, National Endowment for the Arts, Special Exhibition Funding Program, Washington D.C. Advisory Boards and Consultantships2004 Panelist, Partners in Excellence, Illinois Arts Council 2002 Board Member, Fulcrum Point, Contemporary Music Organization, Chicago Planning Committee, Humanities and the Arts, Chicago Botanic Garden Civic Committee Member, Chicago Botanic Garden and the Garfield Park Conservatory Alliance, Chapungu Sculpture Park 2002-2003 Advisory Board Member, Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education (CAPE) 1999 Cultural Affairs Advisory Board of the City of Chicago, Chicago (Mayor Dalely appointed) 1998 Founding Organizer, "New Artists 98," City-wide exhibition of graduate students from major institutions, Terra Museum, Chicago Juror, Women's Art Caucus, Anniversary Exhibition, Northern Illinois University Gallery, Chicago 1996 Editorial Review Board, Modern Art Series, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge England 1996-99 Board Member, Center for Arts Policy, Democratic Vistas, Columbia College, Chicago 1994 Chair, Program Committee, Sculpture Chicago 1994 Juror, Cultural Consortium, Metropolitan Dade County, Florida 1992 Juror, Arts Council of Indianapolis Exhibition 1991 Member, Board, Lyn Blumenthal Memorial Fund for Independent Video, New York 1989 Member, Board, Cityfront Center Sculpture Project, Chicago Visual Arts Panel, Illinois Arts Council 1988-93 Member, Advisory Board, Sculpture Chicago 1988 Juror, "The Intimate Eye," Chicago Women's Caucus for Art 1987-88 Member, Visual Art Panel, Illinois Arts Council 1986 Juror, Sculpture for the Humanities, The University of Illinois at Chicago Member, Advisory Board, Archives of American Art, Chicago 1985 Juror, Chicago Sculpture International 1984 Juror, "Sculpture '84," Chicago 1984-86 Member, Advisory Panel for Exhibitions, Illinois Arts Council 1979-86 Member, Public Art Committee, Chicago Council on Fine Arts 1983 Member, Advisory Board, Whitewalls (journal devoted to artists' writings) Consultant, First National Bank of Chicago, London office 1981-83 Member, Board of Directors, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago 1980-83 Consultant, Public Sculpture Project by Dan Graham, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois (funded by National Endowment for the Arts) 1973-83 Member, Board of Directors, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago 1981 Juror, Michigan Artists 80-81, The Detroit Institute of Arts 1976-78 Member, Visual Arts Panel, Chicago Council on Fine Arts, Chicago MembershipsCollege Art Association Committee on Institutional Cooperation, Art and Design Directors Illinois Arts Alliance International Association of Art Critics (AICA) International Council of Fine Arts Deans Women’s Network, Chicago University Service (University of Illinois at Chicago)(selected)2004 Chair of the Search Committee for the Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences 2003 Charged with overall coordination of Terra Museum of American Art Educational Partnership Proposal UIC Senate Campus Coordinator, Public Art Committee – South Campus, James Turrell project 2001 Chair of the Search Committee for the Dean, College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs 2000 Campus Coordinator, Public Art Committee – University Plaza, Vito Acconci project Charged with overall coordination of Performing Arts Center proposal for UIC campus 1997 Search Committee, Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs 1997 Member, Avery Brundage Fellowship Committee 1997-98 Campus Research Board, Subcommittee, Arts and Humanities 1996 Panel member/Kellogg Commission on the Future of State and Land Grant Colleges 1996-98 Member, University Faculty Senate 1995 Public Art Committee 1995-94 Executive Committee, Graduate College 1993 Chair, Subcommittee of Arts and Culture Great Cities Initiative 1993 Jury, Capital Development Board, Sculpture Project, UIC Library Chair, Arts Center Program Committee 1992-93 Fellow Academic Leadership Program Committee on Institutional Cooperation 1992-94 Board Member, Center for Research on Women and Gender, University of Illinois at Chicago 1992-94 Member, University Faculty Senate
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