SHLOMIT

DROR

EDUCATION

2011 MA, Museum Studies, University, New York, NY Thesis: “(Re)thinking Contemporary Art at the Israel Museum: Extending the Meaning of the Past.” (honors)

2006 BA, Art History and Latin American Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY Thesis: “Re-encountering Jewish Art in Latin America: The Art of Jose Gurvich, Moico Yaker, and Elena Climent.”

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

ART RESOURCE, NEW YORK, NY Researcher and Social Media Coordinator (2016- Present) - Designing a supplementary website, featuring on-line exhibitions (https://www.artresource.art) - Working as a researcher and permissions liaison - Maintaining company’s social media platforms NEWARK MUSEUM, NEWARK, NJ Consulting Curator of American Art (2013 – 2014) - Curator and project manager for the 2014 Art Annual: Fine Art. - Built and facilitated liaisons between the museum, local artists and institutions.

NEWARK MUSEUM, NEWARK, NJ Curatorial Associate, American Art (2011 – 2013) - Selected artworks from permanent collection of modern and contemporary American art for gallery rotations. - Developed exhibition proposals for future shows. - Researched permanent collection, catalogued works and updated database.

2011 INCHEON WOMEN ARTISTS’ BIENNALE, INCHEON, SOUTH KOREA/ NEW YORK, NY Assistant Curator (2011) - Worked with artistic director, Jane Farver, on exhibition theme and selection of artists. - Maintained exhibition checklists and image files, edited and assisted with brochure, catalogue and label copy. - Corresponded with artists, collectors and galleries to secure loans and determine shipping needs and cost.

THE FELIX GONZALEZ TORRES FOUNDATION, NEW YORK, NY Archival Intern (2011) - Maintained digitization of archival images of FGT’s past work. - Reorganized and archived exhibition files and catalogues, prepared and arranged documentation and ephemera for reference library.

EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO, NEW YORK, NY Curatorial Intern (2010) - Assisted with preparation for NEH grant for Caribbean: Crossroads of the World exhibition. - Updated and examined artists’ files/portfolios for the (S) Files Biennale exhibition.

COUTURIER GALLERY, LOS ANGELES, CA Gallery Director (2007 – 2009) - Supervised daily operations of gallery, expanded clients’ database and was in charge of acquisition records. - Planned and prepared exhibitions, marketed shows and promoted gallery events. - Handled registrar duties, including packing, shipment and receiving of artworks.

ARTFORUM-DAVID ROCKEFELLER CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES, HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CAMBRIDGE, MA Curatorial Assistant (2007) - Managed Call for Artists project, reviewed and evaluated with curator artists’ submissions and portfolios.

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- Researched, prepared and compiled material for the Relational Aesthetics conference held in February 2007.

INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF ART CRITICS/ USA, NEW YORK, NY Award Coordinator (2006 – 2007) - Confirmed and proofread exhibition titles and curators’ information and affiliation for press release. - Gathered and prepared visual materials to be presented at award ceremony.

EXHIBITIONS

2018 Curator, Nancy Patz: All About My Mother, Reimagine end of life at B’nai Jeshurun, New York, NY Curatorial advisor, Casilda Sanches, solo show, The Foghorn’s Song, Cluster Gallery, , NY 2017 Curator, Building and Rebuilding, Asylum Arts at Repair the World, Brooklyn, NY Curator, Almost Home: Between Staying and Leaving a Phantom Land, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, Queens, New York Curator and juror, Gaze, Cluster Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2016 Curator, Partner in Crime, School of Criminal Justice, , Newark, NJ Curator, Re-made Garden: Ira Wagner, Paul Robeson Galleries, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ Curator, Beneath Such Dreamy Moments: Joan Pamboukes, Paul Robeson Galleries, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ Juror, The Independent Artists’ Greenhouse, Fresh Paint Art Fair, Tel Aviv 2015 Curator, Esther Naor: The Object is Present, A.I.R Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Juror and curator, The Curator’s Choice Exhibit, ProArts and the Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ Juror, Marylou Hillyer Members Show, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ Curator, Story of a Story, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY Curator, Seeing through Abstraction, Residency Unlimited, Brooklyn, NY 2014 Juror, City Without Walls' 31st Annual Metro Show, City without Walls, Newark, NJ Curator, And Never Elsewhere; Performance by Dahlia Elsayed, Newark Museum, Newark, NJ Curator and juror, 2014 New Jersey Arts Annual: Ready or Not, Newark Museum, Newark, NJ 2013 co-Curator, Through the Parlor, No Longer Empty, New York, NY Curator, A Space from Without, Art:I:Curate, New York, NY Curator, F_ll in the Bl_nk, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY 2012 Curator, Sonia Louie Davis – Recent Work, Residency Unlimited, Brooklyn, NY Curator, In Her Eyes: Women Behind and in Front of the Camera, Newark Museum, Newark, NJ Assistant curator, Romare Bearden: Selections from the Newark Museum's Collection, Newark Museum, Newark, NJ 2011 Assistant curator, Terra Incognita, Incheon Women Artists’ Biennale, Incheon, South Korea

TALKS/ PUBLIC PROGRAMS

2017 Place, Home, Identity, Panel discussion, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs Immobility, Artists talk, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs 2016 Artists talk with Clytie Alexander and Vicky Colombet, Christian Duvernois Gallery 2015 Storytelling through Objects, Smack Mellon 2014 Sound of Vision, workshop with Andrew Demirjian, Newark Museum 2013 Sonia Louise Davis, Heather Hart and Betty Yu in Conversation, No Longer Empty 2012 Artist talk with Sonia Louie Davis, Residency Unlimited

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CURATORIAL RESIDENCIES

RESIDENCY UNLIMITED, NEW YORK, NY Curator in residence (Spring 2015)

NO LONGER EMPTY, NEW YORK, NY Curatorial Lab in Chinatown (Fall 2013) - Co-curator of a group exhibition with community engagement and site-specificity as overarching subjects.

NARS FOUNDATION, BROOKLYN, NY Curatorial Fellow (Summer 2013)

INDEPENDENT CURATORS INTERNATIONAL, NEW YORK, NY Curatorial Intensive participant (Fall 2012) - Developed concepts for future curatorial proposal, (In)Formal Contacts.

GRANTS/AWARDS

- Smack Mellon, Emerging Curator, 2015 - CUE Art Foundation and AICA-USA, Young Art Critics Mentoring Program, 2013-2014 - NARS Foundation, Winner of the Emerging Curator Program, 2013 Harvey S. Friedman Annual Memorial Grant, National Museum of American Jewish Military History, 2011 - Bick Award, Jewish Studies Program, Bard College, senior thesis research 2006 - Harry J. Carman Scholarship, Bard College, given to students whose names have frequently appeared on the Honors List, 2005-2006

PUBLICATIONS

- Almost home: Between Staying and Leaving a Phantom Land, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Project, 2017 http://www.dorsky.org/Brochure%20PDFs/1704almosthome.pdf - Ground Control: The Art of Wonho Lee Seoul Art Space, Geumcheon, 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160605042452/http://residencyunlimited.org/dialogues/ground-control-by- shlomit-dror/ - First Impression, Point of Contact Gallery, Syracuse, NY, 2015. Catalogue essay accompanying the exhibition Liene Bosquê: Suspended Memories - Ready or Not, Newark Museum, Newark, NJ, 2014. Exhibition catalogue, two essays; wrote main essay, (Editor) - Raquel Partnoy, Bardian, Spring 2014 - A Space from Without, catalogue essay, Art:I:Curate, New York, NY, 2013 - The Reality of Abstraction, catalogue essay published in conjunction with an exhibition at CUE Art Foundation, New York, NY, 2013 - Ana Mendieta: Late Works 1981-1985 At Galerie Lelong, ARTOBSERVED, June 17, 2013 http://artobserved.com/2013/06/new-york-ana-mendieta-late-works-1981-1985-at-galerie-lelong-through- june-22nd-2013/ - The Evolution of Abstraction in Tony Smith’s Artwork, Newark Museum Blog, September 28, 2012 http://newarkmuseum.wordpress.com/2012/09/28/the-evolution-of-abstraction-in-tony-smiths-artwork/ - Berenice Abbott, Newark Museum Blog, June 22, 2012 http://newarkmuseum.wordpress.com/2012/06/22/berenice-abbott/

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CONFERENCES

- Memory and Journey. Dimensions of Israeli and Jewish Art, Düsseldorf, Germany, June, 2013 (paper) - National Museum in a Changing Europe, Eunamus Conference, Central European University, Budapest, December, 2012 (paper)

ART PANELS

- Panelist, Parsons/The New School 2018 MFA Thesis Exhibition Walk – Through, 2018 - Panelist, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Renewal Panel, 2018 - Panelist, Asylum Arts, grant rewards for artists 2016 - Panelist, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New Member Jury 2016 - Panelist, Residency Unlimited and National Endowment for the Arts, Art Work artists, 2016 BIBLIOGRAPHIES

- Sharon Adarlo, “New Art in New Jersey,” Hyperallergic, August 22, 2014 - Dan Bischoff, “At ‘the annual,’ Jersey artists flash wit—and grit,” Star Ledger, June 22, 2014 - Sarah Cascone, “The 30 Hottest Group Shows to See in New York This Summer,” July 3, 2017 - Neil Chiragdin, “Holding on and letting go of home, at Dorsky,” Queens Chronicle, June 22, 2017 - Julie Daurio, “‘Ready or Not’ at the Newark Museum,” 88.3 FM WBGO, August 8, 2014 - Priscilla Frank, “Artists Transform Old Chinatown Beauty Parlor Into A Creative Playground,” Huffington Post, December 5, 2013 - Benjamin Sutton, “Dissecting and Detecting Stories in Found Objects and Remnants,” Hyperallergic, July 23, 2015 - Lilly Wei, “Ready or Not: 2014 New Jersey Arts Annual: Fine Art,” Studio International, September 5, 2014 - Robert Wiener, “‘Unexpected’ Israeli art at Newark exhibit,” New Jersey Jewish News, August 6, 2014

LANGUAGES

Hebrew- fluent; English- fluent; Spanish- advanced proficiency

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