Susan Greenberg Fisher, Ph.D. susan.fisher@yale.edu Experience ...

Susan Greenberg Fisher, Ph.D.
susan.fisher@yale.edu
Experience
Horace W. Goldsmith Associate Curator
Modern and Contemporary Art, Yale University Art Gallery (2006-present)
- Currently organizing original art exhibitions and accompanying public lectures, interviews, and talks by major
contemporary scholars, writers, and artists. Projects include Picasso and the Allure of Language (2009), and the
award-winning exhibition The Société Anonyme: Modernism for America (2006-08), both traveling exhibitions.
Recent speakers include John Richardson, Mary Ann Caws, artists Barkley L. Hendricks and Red Grooms.
- Stewarding museum’s collection of 5,000+ artworks of modern and contemporary painting, sculpture, and video.
- Securing funding for exhibition support; won $60,000 from NEA for The Société Anonyme: Modernism for America.
- Negotiating gifts of art for Yale’s permanent collection from donors and contemporary artists.
- Initiating new technology in YUAG exhibitions.
- Teaching collection-based undergraduate and graduate-level seminars for Yale’s History of Art department; serving
as reader for Ph.D. prospectuses and senior theses; acting as Ph.D. orals examiner; advising students.
- Managing staff of one curatorial assistant, two bursary students, and curatorial and research assistants and fellows.
Assistant Curator
Modern and Contemporary Art, Yale University Art Gallery (2002-05)
- Oversaw reinstallation of modern and contemporary art collection for opening of renovated Louis Kahn building.
- Organized exhibitions and related programming: Invitation to the Voyage (2006), featuring Romantic and
Impressionist works; Modern Bronze (2003), sculpture from the collection of Yale alumnus Charles B. Benenson, with
accompanying tours for local blind students; and assisted with Edgar Degas: Defining the Modernist Edge (2003).
Curatorial Assistant
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City (2001-02)
- Led a museum-wide team from installation, registrar, marketing, and publications departments as project manager for
Moving Pictures (2002), a major exhibition of photography, film and video.
- Oversaw research and documentation on permanent collection and new acquisitions; assisted scholars with inquiries.
- Organized the exhibition Interiors (2002) of modern works on paper from the collection.
Theodore Rousseau Fellow
European Paintings Department, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City (1998-99)
- Completed research in French museums, libraries, and archives for Ph.D. thesis, Corot and the Ambitions of French
Landscape Art, 1820-1840 (Thomas Crow, advisor).
Exhibitions
Picasso and the Allure of Language
Yale University Art Gallery (January 29 – May 24, 2009)
The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University (August 20, 2009 – January 3, 2010)
Select reviews:
Carly Berwick, “Yale’s Art Gallery Presents Bookish Picasso, Lady’s Man,” Bloomberg.com, March 26, 2009
Sebastian Smee, “Learning the Language of Picasso,” Boston Globe, February 22, 2209
Holland Cotter, “Why University Museums Matter,” New York Times, February 19, 2009
Kathryn Shattuck, “Picasso, Who Let His Imagination Run from Art to Language,” New York Times, February 5, 2009
Roger Catlin, “Yale University Art Gallery Presents Picasso, In Words & Pictures,” Hartford Courant, February 5, 2009
Allan Appel, “Pablo Picasso, Writer?,” New Haven Independent, January 29, 2009

Susan Fisher exhibitions, continued
The Société Anonyme: Modernism for America (assistant curator); traveled 2006-08
The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Dallas Museum of Art
The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville
Awards:
Winner, 2006 AAMC award for best thematic exhibition (west coast venue)
Runner-up, 2006 AICA award for best thematic museum show nationally
Invitation to the Voyage
Yale University Art Gallery, 2007-08
States of Connecticut
Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT, 2007
New Art ‘06
Kingston Gallery, Boston, 2006
Modern Bronze
Yale University Art Gallery, 2003
Edgar Degas: Defining the Modernist Edge (assistant curator)
Yale University Art Gallery, 2003
Interiors
Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2002
Moving Pictures (project manager)
Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2001
Publications
Books
Picasso and the Allure of Language. Yale University Press, 2009.
A Selection of French Impressionist Paintings from the Yale University Art Gallery. Yale Art Gallery, 2002.
Articles, essays, and catalogue entries
“Art as Experience: Katherine Dreier and the Educational Mission of the Société Anonyme,” The Société Anonyme:
Modernism for America. Jennifer Gross, editor. Yale University Press, 2006.
Master Drawings from the Yale University Art Gallery. Yale University Press, 2006. Entry on Théodore Rousseau.
“A Picasso Drawing at Yale, Courtesy of Marcel Duchamp,” Burlington Magazine (March 2006): 201-2.
“Reforming paysage historique: Corot and the Generation of 1830,” Art History (June 2004): 412–30.
“Above the Grid,” Yale Art Gallery Bulletin (2004). (on Yvonne Jacquette)
“Il futuro del futurismo: I documenti di Lydia Winston Malbin a Yale,” Futurismo. Milan: Skira, 2004.
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Susan Fisher publications, continued
Edgar Degas: Defining the Modernist Edge. Yale University Art Gallery and the Yale University Press, 2003. Entries
on Degas’s paintings and sculptures at Yale.
“Teaching with Corot,” Yale Art Gallery Bulletin (2003).
Moving Pictures: Contemporary Photography and Video from the Guggenheim Museum Collections. Guggenheim
Museum, 2003. Entries on various contemporary artists.
“The Face of Impressionism in 1870: Monet’s Camille on the Beach at Trouville,” Yale Art Gallery Bulletin (2001).
Activities
Awards Committee, Association of Art Museum Curators (2009)
Professional Development Committee, Association of Art Museum Curators (2007-present)
Next Generation Museum Leadership Program, Getty Leadership Institute (2005)
Juror for regional contemporary art exhibitions (2004-present)
Speaker at Yale University History of Art Alumni Conference, 2009; College Art Association (CAA) Conference,
2007, 2002; American Association of University Women, 2007; Women Art Patrons and Collectors, 2006; Jewish
Federation of Greater New Haven, 2006, 2005; Danish Academy in Rome, 2003; MART, Rovereto, Italy, 2003; and
various regional libraries and schools on current exhibition projects.
Education
Ph.D., Yale University
M.A., Yale University
B.A., Oberlin College
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