Kathryn A. Tuma - History of Art - Johns Hopkins University

EDUCATION:
KATHRYN A. TUMA
2000 Ph.D. History of Art, University of California at Berkeley
Area of Specialization: 19 th and 20 th Century Art
Dissertation: Cézanne, Lucretius and the Late Nineteenth-Century Crisis in Science
1993 M.A. Comparative Literature, University of California at Berkeley
Area of Specialization: German and French Literature
1991 A.B. Literature Concentration, summa cum laude, Harvard College, magna cum laude
CURRENT TITLE:
2005 – Second Decade Society Chair, Assistant Professor of Modern Art, Dept. of History of Art,
The Johns Hopkins University
MUSEUM EXPERIENCE:
2004 – 2005 Associate Curator, The Drawing Center, New York
2002 – 2004 Assistant Curator of Historical Exhibitions, The Drawing Center, New York
2001 – 2002 Janice H. Levin Fellow and Curatorial Assistant, Department of Painting and Sculpture
Museum of Modern Art, New York
2000 – 2001 Samuel H. Kress Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow, Department of Modern and Contemporary
Art National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
1999 – 2000 Mary Davis Predoctoral Curatorial Fellow, Department of Modern and Contemporary Art
and the Department of French Painting, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
AWARDS AND HONORS:
2006 – Second Decade Society Chair, The Johns Hopkins University
2001 – 2002 Janice H. Levin Fellowship, Department of Painting and Sculpture, MoMA, New York
2000 – 2001 Samuel H. Kress Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow
Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
1998 – 2000 Mary Davis Predoctoral Fellow
Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
1997 – 1998 Mellon Departmental Fellowship in the History of Art, U. C. Berkeley
1997 Samuel H. Kress Travel Fellowship in the History of Art
1996 – 1997 Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship, U. C. Berkeley
1996 Samuel H. Kress Travel Fellowship in the History of Art
1995 – 1996 Georges Lurcy Charitable and Educational Fellowship for Dissertation Research in France
1995 Mellon Dissertation Year Fellowship
1994 – 1995 Dora Garibaldi Scholarship for Graduate Study in the History of Art at U. C. Berkeley
PUBLICATIONS:
Kathryn A. Tuma

2007 “The Color and Compass of Things: Paul Cézanne and The Early Work of Jasper Johns.” In Jasper Johns: An
Allegory of Painting, 1955-1965 (Washington, D.C.: The National Gallery of Art, 2007): 170-187.
2006 “T. J. Clark with Kathryn Tuma,” The Brooklyn Rail (November 2006): XXXXXXX
2006 “Eva Hesse’s Turn: Rotations around the Circle Drawings.” In Eva Hesse Drawing (New Haven: Yale
University Press, 2006): 215-271.
2005 “Paradox, Perceptual Experience and the Art of Zoe Keramea.” Zoe Keramea: Geometry of Paradox (New
York: The Drawing Center, 2005).
2005 “Enhancing Stillness: The Art of Agnes Martin.” In 3 x Abstraction: New Methods of Drawing by Hilma af
Klint, Emma Kunz, and Agnes Martin (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005): 43-58.
2005 “Recollections in Tranquility: Linda Matalon’s Middle Falls.” Linda Matalon: Middle Falls (New York: Fifth
Floor Foundation, 2005).
2005 “Much So Strangely Soft and Self-Illuminating: The Drawings of John King.” How I Know: Drawings by John
King (Vicenza, Italy, 2005).
2005 “The Imagination of the World: Abby Leigh’s Systems as Symbolic Form.” Abby Leigh: Systems (New York:
Betty Cunningham Gallery, 2005).
2004 “The Victorian ‘Book of Nature’: Modeling, Mimesis and the Community of Forms.” In Ocean Flowers and
Ferns: Impressions from Nature (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004): 215-232.
2004 “The Other Side of Nature: The Aesthetics of Reciprocity and Metaphors of Materialism in the Art of
Giuseppe Penone.” In Giuseppe Penone: The Imprint of Drawing (New York: The Drawing Center, 2004):
71-83.
2003 “La Peau de Chagrin.” In Picasso: The Cubist Portraits of Fernande Olivier (Washington, D.C.: National
Gallery of Art, 2003): 127-163.
2002 “Cézanne and Lucretius at the Red Rock.” Representations 78 (Spring 2002): 56-85.
2001 Mark Tobey; Franz Kline; Barnett Newman; Cy Twombly; Jasper Johns. In A Century of Drawing
(Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2001).
2000 Cézanne, Lucretius and the Late Nineteenth-Century Crisis in Science (Ann Arbor: UMI Press, 2000).
1994 “Une dentelle s’abolit: The Invisibilities of Vermilion in Vermeer’s The Lacemaker.” Qui Parle 7
(Spring/Summer 1994): 1-40.
LECTURES AND PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS:
2007 “The Sculpture of Isamu Noguchi.” Lunch, Lecture and Tour for the Johns Hopkins Alumni Society, The
Noguchi Museum, Long Island City, NY, July 7, 2007.
2006 “Cézanne’s Failure.” Symposium held on the occasion of the exhibition Cézanne’s Provence at the National
Gallery of Art, May 6, 2006.
2006 “Cézanne, Impressionism, and Beyond.” Lecture to the Docents at the Baltimore Museum of Art, March 27,
2006.
2005 “The Color Out of Space.” Pioneering Modern Painting: A Symposium on Cézanne and Pissarro. The
Museum of Modern Art, New York, September 9 – 10, 2005.
2004 “Gravity’s Rainbow: The Weight of Color in the Art of Paul Cézanne.” The New York Studio School, New
York, NY, April 14, 2004.
2003 “Cézanne’s Failure.” Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, November 20, 2003.
2003 “Reading Between the Lines: The Early History of Barnett Newman’s The Stations of the Cross.” College Art
Association, New York, NY, February 20, 2003.
2002 “Too Much As They Are: Paul Cézanne’s Late Watercolors and the Aesthetics of Authenticity.” Princeton
University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ, November 5, 2002.
2001 “Thou unending trace: Figurations of Time in Cy Twombly’s Gray Paintings.” College Art Association,
Chicago, IL, March 1, 2001.
2000 “Cézanne at the National Gallery of Art.” The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., July 11 and 12,
2000.
2000 “Philosophie à perte de vue: Cézanne, Lucretius and Allegories of Visibility and Invisibility in Le Rocher
rouge (c. 1895).” Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, March 21, 2000.
2000 “Philosophie à perte de vue: Cézanne, Lucretius and Allegories of Visibility and Invisibility in Le Rocher
rouge (c. 1895).” Yale University, New Haven, CT, March 8, 2000.
Kathryn A. Tuma

2000 “Allegories of the Invisible: Some Reflections on Cézanne’s Stroke and Theoretical Physics at the End of the
Nineteenth Century.” 20 th Annual Nineteenth-Century Studies Association Conference, Arlington, VA, March
23-25, 2000.
1999 “Philosophie à perte de vue: Allegories of Visibility and Invisibility in Cézanne’s Le Rocher rouge (c. 1895).”
Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., December 2, 1999.
1992 “Interdisciplinarity and the Visual Arts.” George Gund Theater, University of California, Berkeley,
September 6, 1992.
EXHIBITIONS:
2006 Eva Hesse Drawing (Associate Curator, with Catherine de Zegher and Elisabeth Sussman)
The Drawing Center; The de Menil Collection, Houston; Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art
2005 Zoe Keramea (Co-Curator, with Catherine de Zegher)
The Drawing Center
2005 Nasreen Mohamedi (Associate Curator, with Catherine de Zegher)
The Drawing Center
2005 3 x Abstraction: New Methods of Drawing by Hilma af Klint, Emma Kunz and Agnes Martin
(Associate Curator, with Catherine de Zegher)
The Drawing Center; Santa Monica Museum of Art; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
2004 Richard Tuttle: It’s a Room for 3 People (Associate Curator, with Catherine de Zegher)
The Drawing Center; Aspen Art Museum; Moderna Museet, Stockholm
2004 Ocean Flowers: Impressions from Nature (Assistant Curator, with Catherine de Zegher)
The Drawing Center; The Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
2004 Giuseppe Penone: The Imprint of Drawing (Assistant Curator, with Catherine de Zegher)
The Drawing Center; Milton Keynes Gallery, England
2003 The Stage of Drawing: Gesture and Act (Selected from the Tate Collection) (Assistant Curator, with Catherine
de Zegher) The Drawing Center; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia; Tate Liverpool
2002 Max Beckmann (Janice H. Levin Fellow, under Senior Curator Robert Storr)
The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate Modern; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
2001 Cy Twombly: The Sculpture (Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow, under Curator and Head Jeffrey Weiss)
The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Kunstmuseum Basel; The de Menil Collection, Houston
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND COMMITTEES:
College Art Association (member since 1993)
Modern Languages Association (member since 1991)
Member, Contemporary Art Accessions Committee, Baltimore Museum of Art (2005)
Member, Selection Committee for the 2006-2007 Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Spring 2008
Kathryn A. Tuma