Bardian SPRING 2011

the Decorative Arts of Sri Lanka: “The Interconnected World of Eurasia.” For
details, e-mail lankadecorativearts@gmail.
Caroline Hannah gave a talk last fall titled “Henry Varnum Poor, Wharton Esherick,
and Modern Craft in the USA” at the Second Annual Anne d’Harnoncourt
Symposium, which was held at the University of Pennsylvania in conjunction
with the exhibition Wharton Esherick and the Birth of the American Modern.
Center for Curatorial Studies
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Michał Jachuła, a curator at the Arsenal Gallery in Bialystok, Poland, curated
Ana Ostoya: Autopis, Notes, Copies, and Masterpieces at Galeria Foksal in Warsaw.
Ginny Kollak was selected as one of three participants in the 2011 edition
of the Young Curator’s Residency program at Fondazione Sandretto Re
Rebaudengo in Turín. She has been traveling throughout Italy and Sicily,
visiting artists, curators, and institutions.
Daniel Mason curated Broom: The Full Sweep at Stevenson Library, Bard College.
The exhibition presented all 21 volumes of Broom, the seminal avant-garde
magazine published from 1921 to 1924.
Gabi Ngcobo returned to Johannesburg, where she has been working on a
project with Manifesta 8 and the Manifesta Foundation, heading a team to
examine the usefulness of a Manifesta model for Africa.
Mackenzie Schneider continues to work on the AS-AP project with Ann
Butler, director of the CCS Library and Archives, and also works part-time
at Renwick Gallery in SoHo, Manhattan.
Yulia Tikhonova, founder of the ART4BrightonBeach initiative, was the
moderator between four women’s art collectives—A Feminist Tea Party,
The Brainstormers, For the Birds, and The Projects—at the College Art
Association’s annual conference in February.
Andrea Torreblanca and Carlos Palacios are both on the arts faculty in the masters
in visual arts program at Morelos State University in Cuernavaca, Mexico.
’09
Mireille Bourgeois, formerly programmer/curator at Saw Video in Ottawa, is
now the director at the Centre for Art Tapes in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Katerina Ilanes is the curator of an ongoing series, “Queers on Film,” at the
LGBT Center in New York City.
Christina Linden curated About the Object—which was first presented as her
thesis exhibition at the Center for Curatorial Studies—at Ramapo College in
Mahwah, New Jersey. The art gallery in Ramapo’s Berrie Center for the
Performing and Visual Arts is directed by Sydney Jenkins ’96.
Bartholomew Ryan, after working for a year as a curatorial fellow, is the new
assistant curator at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.
’08
Tyler Emerson-Dorsch, a partner at Dorsch Gallery in Miami, presented
Clifton Childree’s Orchestrated Gestures, a solo show of new sculptures in the
form of old arcade machines, with film and audio components.
A text by Milena Hoegsberg, an independent curator in New York City, was
included in The Biennial Reader, an anthology of large-scale perennial exhibitions
of contemporary art.
Terri Smith curated “It’s for You”: Conceptual Art and the Telephone at the
Housatonic Museum of Art in Bridgeport, Connecticut, where she is curator
and collections manager.
’07
Kate McNamara is the director and chief curator of Boston University Art
Gallery. She was formerly a curatorial assistant at P.S.1.
Chen Tamir, an independent curator and critic and director of Flux Factory in
Manhattan, curated Into the Eye of the Storm at the Israeli Center for Digital
Art, Holon.
’06
Montserrat Albores Gleason, an independent curator in Mexico City, helped
to organize Clarisse Hahn at PETRA, a space where she organizes projects
with Pablo Sigg.
Zeljka Himbele-Kozul curated Carey Young: Uncertain Contracts at the Museum
of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, where she is curatorial assistant of contemporary
art. Zeljka and William Heath cocurated My Little / Membrane, two
exhibitions in one that open May 9 at NURTUREart in New York City.
After three years as curatorial associate at the New Museum in Manhattan,
Amy Mackie is now director of visual arts at the Contemporary Arts Center in
New Orleans.
’05
Aubrey Reeves is an artist, curator, and arts manager based in Toronto. Her
dual-screen, 16 mm film installation, Glide, had its international premiere at
the Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival in Kassel, Germany.
Erin Riley-Lopez, an independent curator in New York, curated Acting Out at
the Bronx River Art Center.
Yasmeen Siddiqui organized a book launch for A Contingent Object of
Research. She edited the book for Do Ho Suh’s The Bridge Project at the
Storefront for Art and Architecture, where she was formerly curator at large.
’03
Ingrid Chu, codirector of Forever & Today in New York City, cocurated O Zhang:
A Splendid Future for the Passed, an installation by Zhang, a New York–based
Chinese artist.
’02
Cassandra Coblentz curated Unlocking, an exploration of the key by artist
Jean Shin and architect Brian Ripel, at the Scottsdale Museum of
Contemporary Art in Arizona, where she is associate curator.
Jenni Sorkin, postdoctoral residential fellow at the Getty Research Institute in
Los Angeles, was invited to participate in a special Centennial Session on
Feminism at the College Art Association’s conference in February.
’01
Cecilia Brunson cofounded AMA Fellowship, a grant facilitating art residencies
abroad for Chilean artists. After moving to London in 2010 and curating a
series of monographic shows on contemporary Chilean artists for House of
Propellers, she was invited by Phillips de Pury and Saatchi gallery to organize
Tectonic Shifts: Contemporary Art from Chile.
Dermis León, an art critic, curator, and art historian, curated Des-Habitable,
an exhibition about architecture and urbanism in Latin America, in Peru.
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