Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative Panel Biographies 2006 Ned Rifkin (panel chair) Under Secretary for Art Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC Sally Berger Assistant Curator Department of Film and Media Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Constance Lewallen Senior Curator University of California, Berkeley Art Museum, and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA Marco Livingstone Art Historian and Independent Curator London Kim Kanatani Director of Education Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY Sara Kellner Executive Director DiverseWorks Artspace, Houston, TX R. Craig Miller Curator Department of Architecture, Design, and Graphics The Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO Tumelo Mosaka Assistant Curator Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY Robert Rainwater Independent Curator and Writer New York, NY Panel Biographies Ned Rifkin is the Smithsonian’s Under Secretary for Art. In this position, he oversees the Archives of American Art; Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum; the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, which together form the National Museum of Asian art; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; the National Museum of African Art; the National Portrait Gallery; the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery; and the Smithsonian Photography Initiative. From February 2002 until October 2005, he also served as director for the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and is serving presently as interim director for the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art (since October 2005). Rifkin formerly was director of The Menil Collection and Foundation in Houston. Rifkin’s extensive experience also includes serving as director of the High Museum of Art in Atlanta (1991-1999) and as chief curator of the Hirshhorn (1986 to 1991). While at the High, Rifkin oversaw such nationally visible projects as “Five Rings: Passions in World Art,” in conjunction with the Centennial 1996 Olympic Games, and “Norman Rockwell: Pictures for the American People,” a traveling exhibition that broke attendance records at each of its venues. As the Hirshhorn’s chief curator, Rifkin helped strengthen the museum’s commitment to contemporary art. He also served as curator of contemporary art at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington from 1984 until 1986 and prior to that was curator and then assistant director of The New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York (1980-1984). He received his bachelor’s degree in fine arts, with a minor in philosophy, from Syracuse University in 1972 and a master’s degree and doctorate in art history from the University of Michigan in 1973 and 1977 respectively. Return to Top Sally Berger is an assistant curator of video, film, and new media in the Department of Film and Media at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Working at MoMA since 1986, she organizes media exhibitions, acquisitions, and oversees the permanent media collection. Recent shows include “Documentary Fortnight,” an annual festival on non-fiction media; “First Nations First Features,” an exhibition on groundbreaking indigenous feature films, and MoMA-QNS Projections, a series of video installations in the museum’s public spaces. She also co-organizes the ongoing Media Scope 2006 at MoMA, a lecture and screening series dedicated to exploring film-making and videomaking, as well as web-based, installation, and digital art practices. She is also a media and film lecturer, writer, and independent curator. In 2000, she organized “Something Happened,” a film and video exhibition of auto-biographically based works for Apex Art’s Curatorial Program. She was Executive Director of Independent Film Society (IFS) from 1989-1994. She received her M.A. in Cinema Studies from New York University and her B.A. from Fordham College at Lincoln Center, NY. Return to Top Since 1997, Constance Lewallen has been Senior Curator for Exhibitions at the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. She curated the 2001 retrospective exhibition of the late New York artist, Joe Brainard, which toured to three other U.S. museums. Her survey exhibition of the work of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha for BAM is currently touring internationally. Lewallen is the author of several exhibition catalogues, including Joe Brainard: A Retrospective, and The Dream of the Audience: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1951-1982). Other major exhibitions for the BAM/PFA include: “Everything Matters: Paul Kos, A Retrospective” (2003) and “Ant Farm 1968 – 1978” (2004). From 1980-1987, Lewallen was the curator of the BAM's acclaimed MATRIX contemporary art series. During that period, she curated nearly 90 solo exhibitions by international artists, including Julian Schnabel, Chuck Close, Barbara Kruger, Hamish Fulton, Pat Steir, Tony Cragg, Francesco Clemente, Elizabeth Murray, and Martin Puryear, among many others. As Associate Director of Crown Point Press from 1987-1992, Lewallen was responsible for managing etching and woodblock projects in San Francisco and Japan with international artists. She also created and coordinated Crown Point’s publications including VIEW, a series of extensive interviews with artists such as Anish Kapoor, Bertrand Lavier, Alex Katz, Sherrie Levine, and Judy Pfaff. As an independent curator she has organized “Mistaken Identities” (1992), co-curated with Abigail Solomon-Godeau; “John Cage: The Structure of Chance” (1995), Mills College Art Gallery; and a 1996 retrospective of Jay DeFeo for Moore College of Art in Philadelphia, which traveled to the Berkeley Art Museum. In 1995-1996 Lewallen was the project director for “Art in the Urban Landscape”, a public art program of the Capp Street Project and the Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation. She was the founder of the on-line Bay Area Consortium for the Visual Arts and coordinator of the 1997-1998 and 2001 Wallace Alexander Gerbode Museum Purchase Award Grants. Return to Top Marco Livingstone is an art historian and independent curator, based in London. From 1976 to 1982 he was Assistant Keeper of British Art at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, where he organised retrospectives of the paintings of Allen Jones, Patrick Caulfield, and Peter Phillips, and the first museum exhibition of Anish Kapoor. From 1982-1986 he was Deputy Director of the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford. From 1986- 1991, he was Deputy Editor of The Grove Dictionary of Art (published by Macmillan in 1996 in 34 volumes), with special responsibility for the 20th century. As advisor to Art Life Ltd., Tokyo, from 1989 to 1998, Livingstone organized numerous exibitions, including “David Hockney” (1989), “Jim Dine” (1990), “Pop Muses: Images of Women by Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol” (1991-2), “Tom Wesselmann: A Retrospective Survey” (1993-4), “David Hockney in California” (1994) and “Jim Dine: The Body and its Metaphors” (1996). As an independent curator Livingstone has organized a number of major Pop Art exhibitions throughout Europe and North America as well as in Japan. His “Pop Art”, at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1991, toured internationally. His “The Pop ’60s: Transatlantic Crossing,” at the Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal, 1997, was the largest and most comprehensive Pop exhibition ever held. An exhibition devoted exclusively to British Pop has been curated for the Museo de Bellas Artes in Bilbao, from 17 October 2005 to 12 February 2006. Among his other exhibitions are “Objects for the Ideal Home: The Legacy of Pop Art” (Serpentine Gallery, London, 1991), “Duane Hanson” (touring exhibition, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1994), “George Segal” (touring retrospective, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts), and “R. B. Kitaj: An American in Europe” (touring retrospective, Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo). Livingstone has published widely on late 20th-century painting, sculpture, drawing, photography and video. His publications include Pop Art: A Continuing History (Thames and Hudson, 1990) and monographs and major exhibition catalogues on David Hockney, Jim Dine, R. B. Kitaj, and Nancy Reddin Kienholz, among others. His most recent book, Hockney’s Portraits and People, co-authored with Kay Heymer, was published by Thames and Hudson in autumn 2003 and was awarded the 2004 Sir Bannister Fletcher Award for best book on the arts. Return to Top Kim Kanatani is the first Gail Engelberg Director of Education of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City. As Director of Education, Kanatani works with the education programs at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin, and at the Las Vegas venues to coordinate and work in synergistic exchange with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Prior to joining the Guggenheim, Kanatani was the Director of Education at The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, which she joined in 1985. Kanatani holds an M.A. in Art Education with teaching credentials in both elementary and adult education. Honored with several professional awards, Kanatani was named the National Art Museum Educator of the Year by the National Art Education Association in 1999. The former Director of the Museum Division for the National Art Education Association, Kanatani has also served as President of Museum Educators of Southern California. Return to Top Since 1999, Sara Kellner has been the Executive Director of DiverseWorks, an alternative space dedicated to pursuing new visual, performing, and literary arts, and investigating artistic, cultural, and social issues. During her tenure at DiverseWorks she also initiated a number of exhibitions including “Contemporary Erotic Drawing” and the award-winning “William Pope.L:eRacism,” both of which were covered in The New York Times. Previously, Kellner was the Visual Arts Director at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center in Buffalo, NY where she organized exhibitions by artists such as Laylah Ali, Hilla Lulu Lin, Heidi Kumao, Willie Birch, and Micah Lexier, among many others. She has served on the board and as the Board President of the National Association of Artists Organizations (NAAO). She participated in the first year of The Co-Generate, a series of meetings around the country sponsored by The Rockefeller Foundation designed to foster the leadership of artists and arts professionals under the age of 30. Other accomplishments include being selected as a National Finalist for a White House Fellowship, and organizing the 1999 Three Rivers Arts Festival public art program in Pittsburgh, PA. She has recently participated in the Getty Leadership Institute and in the National Arts Marketing Project advanced training. She has served on panels for the National Endowment for the Arts, the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, and the Cultural Arts Council of Houston and Harris County. She is currently serving as an advisory board member for Aurora Picture Show, Glasstire, ASAP, The Rhode Island School of Design Alumni Association, and the Film Department at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Return to Top Since its creation by Craig Miller in 1990, the Department of Architecture, Design and Graphics at the Denver Art Museum has quickly become one of the most important research centers in the United States for modern and contemporary design, with a particular focus on the latter. Craig Miller has initiated an ambitious acquisitions program: some 3,000 design objects and approximately 8,000 graphics have been acquired, and in a little over a decade, Denver has amassed a collection that now rivals many major East Coast museums. He also initiated an influential series of contemporary design exhibitions, the first such group of shows by an American museum in some three decades. Two major exhibitions with publications have been completed to date. “Italian Design 1960–1994” opened in 1994; this was the first show by an American museum to look at the simultaneous development of Modernist and Post-Modernist design in Italy. The second exhibition in the series was “USDesign 1975–2000” (2002), the first exhibit to examine the major developments in American architecture, decorative design, graphics, and industrial design in the last quarter of the twentieth century. He is currently preparing a third project in this series focusing on contemporary European design from 1985 to 2005. This new project will build on sixteen years of Miller’s innovative work in the field. Return to Top Tumelo Mosaka is assistant curator at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. He served as curator for “Africa Wired: Youth Culture, Hip-Hop Digital Culture Remixed,” and “Passing/Posing: Kehinde Wiley Paintings,” co- curator for “Open House: Working in Brooklyn”, 2004 and “A Fiction of Authenticity: Contemporary Africa Abroad”, 2003, all presented at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. His first exhibition “Black Visions,” dealt with the varying representations of blackness and was presented as a fringe exhibition for the 1995 Johannesburg Biennale. Mosaka is originally from South Africa, where he received his BA in Fine Arts at the University of Witwatersrand. He later attained his graduate degree from the Center of Curatorial Studies at Bard College, New York and has since presented lectures for numerous institutions across the country including the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research at Harvard University, the Art Institute of Chicago, and Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, PA. Among other exhibitions, he curated “A Decade of Democracy: Witnessing South Africa”, which toured nationally throughout 2004, and led a mural project at the Brooklyn Museum entitled “Manifest Destiny: Alexis Rockman,” in the same year. He is working on an exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum for 2007 entitled “Caribbean Encounters.” Return to Top Robert Rainwater is an independent curator and writer. He was formerly Curator of the William Augustus Spencer Collection of Illustrated Books, Illuminated Manuscripts, and Fine Bindings, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Chief Librarian of Art, Prints and Photographs (Assistant Director), and Curator in charge of paintings and sculpture at The New York Public Library. An authority on artists’ books, book illustration, and the history of prints, he organized more than thirty exhibitions at NYPL, including retrospectives of the prints and books of Max Ernst, Christian Boltanski, Richard Long, and Richard Tuttle, in addition to a number of thematic exhibitions, such as “Faith and Legacy: The Hellenic World”; “Illuminated Manuscripts and the Dawn of Printing”; “Immortal Treasures: Japanese Handscrolls from the Spencer Collection”; “Surrealist Books and Prints”; “The Russian Avant-Garde Book”; and “Camille Pissarro and Impressionist Printmaking”. He has lectured at museums, libraries, and universities throughout the United States and has served as panelist for several awards in the arts. He was co-author of the standard scholarly bibliography, A Guide to the Literature of the History of Art, and has contributed essays and entries to a number of exhibition catalogues devoted to the art of the book in Europe and the U.S. He also serves on the board of Printed Matter in New York City.