Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative Panel Biographies 1998 Thelma Golden Curator and Director of Branches Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Katy Kline Director of Bowdoin College Museum of Art Brunswick, ME. Richard Koshalek (Panel Chair) Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles Kathryn Reasoner Executive Director of Headlands Center for the Arts Sausalito, CA Timothy Rub Director of the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College Hanover, New Hampshire Tom Sokolowski Director of The Andy Warhol Museum Pittsburgh, PA Nina Stritzler-Levine Director of Exhibitions, Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts Annandale-on-Hudson, New York Fred Wilson Artist New York City Victor Zamudio-Taylor Art Historian/Curator/Critic Department of Art and Art History University of Texas, Austin Thelma Golden is Curator and Director of Branches at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; formerly, she was Associate Curator and Director of the Whitney Museum at Philip Morris. She was co-curator of the 1993 Biennial Exhibition and organized "Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art", as well as several solo exhibitions at the Whitney Philip Morris branch for Jacob Lawrence, Lorna Simpson, Matthew McCaslin, Judith Shea, and Sam Gilliam, among others. She organized a major retrospective for African-American painter Bob Thompson, and is a member of the curatorial team for the Whitney's "American Century" exhibition. She is also the curator of the 1999 Whitney Biennial. Thelma Golden teaches, lectures, and writes about contemporary art, critical issues and curatorial practice. She is currently a Visiting Professor at the School of Art, Yale University and a member of the Graduate Committee at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College. She has lectured nationally and internationally, published numerous catalogue essays and serves on the board of Creative Time, Inc., and Exit Art: The First World. She was Visual Director at the Jamaica Arts Center in Queens from 1990-91. Whitney Museum of American Art (http://www.echonyc.com/~whitney) Return to Top Katy Kline is Director of Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME. She was the Director of List Visual Arts Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, from 1986 to 1998. Prior to that she worked at List as both Curator and Coordinator of Special Projects. She has organized numerous exhibitions, and published essays in exhibition catalogues such as Peter Fischli/David Weiss; Ellsworth Kelly: Small Sculpture; Subversive Crafts, and Aesthetics of Progress: Forms of the Future in American Design 1930s/1980s. Other publications include Leon Golub/Nancy Spero: War and Memory, for the American Center in Paris, and Bridges Not Easy to Cross: Ping Chong's Installations, for Artists' Space in New York. Katy Kline has been a review panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts, the Institute of Museum Services, and the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation. She has also served as a juror for the Delaware Art Museum Biennial; the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, The Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, and the McKnight Foundation, among others. She has been on the Visiting Committee at Williams College Museum of Art, and is a member of the City of Lowell's Public Art Advisory Board. She was the recipient of the Gyorgy Kepes Fellowship Prize for Excellence in the Creative Arts in 1995. She is Co-curator of the next Venice Biennale. List Visual Arts Center (http://web.mit.edu/lvac/www) Return to Top Richard Koshalek (Panel Chair) has been the Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles since 1982, and was its Deputy Director and Chief Curator from 1980-82. At LAMOCA, he worked with Frank Gehry on the design and construction of the Geffen Contemporary and with Arata Isozaki on the museum's permanent building. He provided leadership in building the permanent collection, developed an extensive and diverse exhibition and performing arts program, instituted the award winning education program, Contemporary Art Start, and is currently working on a fundraising campaign to increase the museum's exhibition and education endowment. He has also organized a large-scale presentation of new, monumental works by Richard Serra for the Geffen Contemporary, and a comprehensive survey of the history of twentieth century architecture entitled "End of the Century" which will open in Tokyo and travel internationally. Richard Koshalek has had a distinguished career in the visual arts. He was Director of the Hudson River Museum in Westchester, from 1976-1980; Director of the Fort Worth Art Museum, from 1974-76; Assistant Director of the Visual Arts Program at the National Endowment for the Arts from 1972-74, and Curator at the Walker Art Center from 1970-73. Museum of Contemporary Art (http://www.moca-la.com/) Return to Top Kathryn Reasoner has been the Executive Director of Headlands Center for the Arts , an internationally recognized artists residency program and cultural center in Sausalito, CA, since February 1995. Headlands hosts artists from up to fourteen countries, commissions artists' projects, and publications, and provides educational events that link the arts with contemporary social and environmental issues. She was also Executive Director of the Richmond Art Center in California, a regional art center with programs in education and exhibitions from 1985 to 1991. She has been a program consultant for the Center for the Arts, Yerba Buena Gardens, and a grants panelist for the California Arts Council, and the Marin Community Foundation. She has also been a speaker for the Western States Arts Federation, and the Bay Area Consortium for the Visual Arts. She serves on the Executive Board of Res Artis, the international network of residential artists' center, was on the National Executive Board of the Alliance of Artists' Communities, and was a founding member of the Richmond Arts Commission. She has also taught graduate and upper division courses in arts administration and cultural policy at Golden Gate University, Graduate School of Management, and San Francisco State University, School of Creative Arts. Return to Top Timothy Rub has been the Director of the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire since 1991; he was Associate Director from 1987-1991. At the Hood Museum, he is responsible for management of all operations of an important regional art museum with a wide-ranging special exhibitions program and a collection numbering nearly 60,000 objects from a broad range of historical periods and cultures. Prior to coming to the Hood Museum, he was Curator at Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York City for four years. Timothy Rub's expertise is in modern art and architecture 1750-present, and in Renaissance art and architecture. His exhibitions include Manhattan Skyline: Skyscrapers Between the Wars, Carnegie's Libraries: A Sesquicentennial Celebration, and Vienna/New York: The Work of Joseph Urban, 1872-1933. He has published articles in Industrial Design, Architectural Record, and Print Review as well as written several catalogue essays. He has lectured widely on architecture. He has been a reviewer for the Institute of Museum Services, as well as a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New England Foundation for the Arts. Return to Top Tom Sokolowski has been the Director of The Andy Warhol Museum since early 1996. Prior to that he was the Director of the Grey Art and Gallery Study Center at New York University from 1984-1996. At the Grey Gallery he organized numerous exhibitions ranging through the entire history of world culture with an emphasis on contemporary art, including Against Nature: Japanese Art in the Eighties, Peter Hujar, Interrogating Identity: The Question of Black Art, and Narelle Jubelin "Soft Shoulder". Several of these exhibitions traveled internationally. He was also Chief Curator and Curator of European Painting and Sculpture at The Chrysler Museum in Norfolk, VA. He has been a juror for the Aperto 86 section of the Venice Biennale, for the Awards in the Visual Arts exhibitions, and the McKnight Foundation Fellowships. He has published numerous essays and lectured widely on topics as diverse as "An Iconographic Portrait of Cosimo I de Medici," and "Gian Lorenzo Bernini: Sculpture in the Present Tense" to "Allegory Today" and "Is There a German Art After Kiefer?". He is a Board member of MacDowell Colony, Penny McCall Foundation, and on the editorial board of Art + Text. He was a Board Member of Visual AIDS from 1990-94. He holds a Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Andy Warhol Museum (http://www.warhol.org/) Return to Top Nina Stritzler-Levine has been the Director of Exhibitions at Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts since 1992. At Bard she has organized exhibitions such as "Finnish Modern Design: Utopian Ideals and Everyday Realities 1930-1997", and "An Alliance of Art and Industry: The Brilliance of Swedish Glass 1918-1939", as well as been project coordinator for several other shows. From 1988-1992, she was an Associate Curator at The American Craft Museum in New York City, where she curated "The Centenary Project: Craft in America, 1900-1920"; "Young Americans", as well as coordinated "Lenore Tawney: A Retrospective", and "George Nakashima: Full Circle", among several other craft and design exhibitions. She has been a faculty member of the Graduate Center since 1993, and has also been an adjunct professor and instructor at New York University's Department of Art, and Parsons School of Design. She has published several exhibition catalogue essays and has participated in symposia such as "Reconstructing the Modern Movement in Architecture and Design, 1919-1939," and "Design Moves On: The Ascendancy of American Design in the Decade of Recovery." She is a PhD candidate in Art History at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts (http://www.bard.edu/graduate/bgc/index.html) Return to Top Fred Wilson is an internationally recognized artist who lives in New York City. His work addresses the relationship of African-American identity to European culture, and has often taken the form of mock "ethnographic" tableaux. He has also been concerned with the critique of museum practices involving collecting and display, and his mises-en-scenes have mimicked and deconstructed the forms of cultural and ethnological packaging found in traditional museums. One of his best known projects was "Mining the Museum" for Baltimore's Maryland Historical Society, a large-scale installation that reinterpreted the museum's collections in light of African-American experience and history. Fred Wilson has had solo shows at, among others, Metro Pictures in New York City; Rena Branstein Gallery and Capp Street Projects in San Francisco; the Seattle Art Museum, and the University of California, Davis. He has exhibited internationally in numerous group shows, and his work has received a great deal of critical attention, including articles in The New York Times, The Village Voice, Flash Art, Art in America, ArtNews, The New Art Examiner, and Artforum. He has received two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, and has served as a panelist for the Visual Arts Program and the InterArts Program at the NEA. He has been on the Board of Directors at Artists Space, the Sculpture Center, and the National Association of Artists' Organizations. Return to Top Victor Zamudio-Tayloris an independent arts consultant, curator and a lecturer in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin. From 1993-96 he was Lecturer for Public Programs at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City. Among his curatorial projects are the exhibitions: The Road to Aztlan: Art from/as Mythic Homeland, upcoming at the Los Angeles Museum of Art; Memory Frames, a project for Tres Projectos Latinos at the Austin Museum of Art, and Drawing from Experience: Elena del Rivero & Jaime Palacios, for INTAR Latin American Gallery, New York. He was the program organizer and panelist for "Contemporary Drawing from Latin America" at the Archer Huntington Gallery, U. of Texas, Austin; and co-curator and co-organizer of "Southwest Art Camp: Dialogues, Directions, Perspectives," a retreat for regional arts directors and curators sponsored by ArtPace Foundation. He has published numerous articles and exhibitions catalogue essays for institutions such as Site Santa Fe; Art in General; Kunstforeningen in Copenhagen, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. In his capacity as contributing editor to Art Nexus, he has written about artists such as Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Eugenio Dittborn; Jose Bedia, and Luis Cruz Azaceta, among others. He has been a lecturer and panelists on various topics in contemporary art at institutions across the U.S., and presented numerous gallery talks at MOMA on diverse artists and exhibitions. Return to Top