CLAIRE SCHNEIDER

421 Norwood Avenue Buffalo, NY 14222 716-884-3971 [email protected]

E D U C A T I O N Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art M.A. (1997) American and German Contemporary Art. Thesis: “Kiki Smith: Reclaiming the Abject”

Tufts University B.A. Art History (1992) Cum Laude

M U S E U M L E A D E R S H I P & C U R A T O R I A L E X P E R I E N C E C.S.1 Curatorial Projects (Buffalo, NY) 2013-present Founder Facilitator of creative art projects in unexpected spaces. Commission new (often participatory) work.

Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 2011-2013 Consulting Curator of Contemporary Art Develop inaugural exhibition for contemporary art initiative. More Love: Art, Politics, and Sharing since the 1990s won an Award of Excellence at American Association of Museum Curators, Honorable Mention in Exhibition Category for museum w operating budget under $4 Million.

Cheekwood Museum of Art (Nashville, TN) 2010 Visiting Curator Develop 4 exhibitions (video and three site-specific) for their contemporary program.

Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (Scottsdale, AZ) 2008-2010 Senior Curator Leadership of programmatic areas in visual arts and exhibition education of modern and contemporary art for 11,500 square foot space. Oversight of a program division staff of three and an annual budget with ranges of $500,000 to $300,000. • Guide the curatorial department during an interim director period. • Identify opportunities for and motivate staff towards creative, populist, intellectually engaging and fiscally responsible programming. • Increased annual attendance 15% (FY08/09) and additional 30% (fall FY 09/10). • Manage the exhibition division in a fiscally responsible manner, developing budgets as reduced 32% (FY08/09) and an additional 22%(fall FY 09/10). • Work closely with the Director of Development on grant writing to ensure financial support for programs. Active in donor cultivation, raising $72,000. • Foster ongoing positive relations with key constituencies including the Board of Trustees, Scottsdale Cultural Council’s sister divisions (Public Art and Performing Arts), donors, special interest groups, collectors, academic colleagues, and the interested public; serve as an articulate and persuasive spokesperson for the museum’s exhibitions and programs. • Active in public relations and marketing efforts, increasing local and national press. • Develop citywide Arts Writing Initiative with area curators, publishers, academics, artists, and writers.

Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo, NY) 1998-2008 Associate Curator of Contemporary Art Develop small and large contemporary exhibitions in all media from 1850 to the present. Articulate a vision for site- specific commissions and foster their development. Work to build permanent collection. Research and write exhibition-related essays, public lectures, wall texts, pr materials, and audio guides. Participate in gallery exhibition program planning, including exhibition design, installation, publications, and education. Lead community collaborations. Strategic planning member and active relations with board members. Advise museum members’ groups including Collector’s Gallery. Director Douglas Schultz: 1998--2003. Director Louis Grachos: 2003-2008.

Crawford Municipal Art Gallery (Cork, Ireland) 1997-1998 Associate Curator Co-organize 0044: Contemporary Irish Artists in Britain, which traveled to PS1 NYC.

Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (North Adams, MA) 1996-1997 Curatorial Intern Co-organize Earmarks, an international survey of public & relocated sound art.

Guggenheim Museum (New York, NY) Curatorial Intern Francesco Clemente researcher Summer 1996

Williams College Museum of Art (Williamstown, MA) Educational Intern 1995-1996 Cheekwood Museum of Art (Nashville, TN) Education Coordinator & Teacher 1994-1995 Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, MA) Education Intern Fall 1992 The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University (Waltham, MA) Curatorial Intern Summer 1992 Contributed to exhibition/catalogue/symposium, Kiki Smith: Unfolding the Body: Works on Paper. Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston, MA) Curatorial Intern Fall 1990

M A J O R E X H I B I T I O N S & S I T E – S P E C I F I C P R O J E C T S Plenty Nick Cave - A CityWide Celebration of Buffalo, 2019- 2020 Initiate collaboration between C.S.1 Curatorial Projects, University at Buffalo, Silo City, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Say Yes Buffalo, Buffalo Public Schools, Buffalo & Erie County Public Library, Hispanic Heritage Foundation of WNY, Open Buffalo, Torn Space, and five other arts and activist organizations. Cave’s cross- disciplinary art will foster a dialogue amongst the city’s diverse communities. A series of neighborhood floats and dance mash-ups will create a new kind of parade at Silo City’s historic grain elevators. Hip hop with step, belly with ballet dancers. The centerpiece of this year old residency will be a performance by Cave. Lead artists and choreographers will facilitate student workshops, university service learning, and community center participation. In one of the most segregated city in the U.S., all ethnic groups African-American, Burmese, Iraqi, Irish, Italian, Native American, Puerto Rican, and Ukrainian will celebrate together. Significant fundraising. Grants won: NEA, Humanities New York, UB’s Creative Arts Initiative, Marks Family Foundation, multiple individual donors.

More Love: Art, Politics and Sharing Since the 1990s, February – March/Fall 2013 Ackland/Cheekwood Highlights 33 contemporary artists working with relational aesthetics, collaboration, emotion in post-conceptual art. 48 works include loans and commissioned new projects by international artists working in video, photography, installation, sound, sculpture and multiples: Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, Janine Antoni, Louise Bourgeois, Chris Barr, Luis Camnitzer, Anne Collier, Tracey Emin, Harrell Fletcher, Mona Hautom, Sharon Hayes, Jim Hodges, Emily Jacir, Miranda July, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Antonio Vega Macotela, Lynne McCabe, Rivane Neuenschwander, Yoko Ono, Dario Robleto, Gregory Sale, Kateřina Šedá, Frances Stark, Julianne Swartz, Lee Walton & Gillian Wearing. Traveled to Cheekwood Museum of Art and Botanical Gardens in Nashville, TN here., Fall 2011 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art Contributing curator selecting artists from Phoenix/Scottsdale (Sue Chenoweth, Aaron Rothman, Gregory Sale, Postcommodity) for an alternative national American art survey. here. focuses on new ways of understanding place, the “local,” and “critical regionalism” by considering “peripheral” art centers at the center of America. Collaborators include Julien Robson (Philadelphia), Becky Hart (Detroit), Teka Selman (Raleigh/Durhan), Mark Harris (Indianapolis/Louisville/Cincinnati), and Chris Cook (Kansas City). Includes major catalogue.

Soaps, Flukes & Follies, Spring/Summer 2010 Cheekwood Video installation on influence of humor, television, and sit-com on a generationally and geographically diverse group: Eleanor Antin, Guy Ben-Ner, Kalup Linzy, Paul McCarthy, Ryan Trecartin, & Kara Walker.

Rewind Remix Replay: Design, Music & Everyday Experience, Winter 2010 SMoCA Considers the role played by design in fashioning the production and consumption of music in everyday life. Includes 500 objects, graphics, sound, and video samples around five key object types—boom box, personal portable stereo, turntable, guitar, and synthesizer—as well as 15 interactive stations. NEA Design Grant Recipient. With Prasad Boradkar, Co-Director, InnovationSpace Arizona State University.

Seriously Funny, Spring 2009 SMoCA Kjellgren Alkire, Tamy Ben-Tor, Maurizio Cattelan, Alejandro Diaz, Christian Jankowski, Nina Katchadourian, Martin Kersels, Dan Perjovschi, Arlene Shechet, Amy Sillman. Five new commissioned pieces. With Cassandra Coblentz.

Flip a Strip: New Ideas for Old Strip Malls, Fall 2008 SMOCA Architectural competition to re-design three strip malls in Scottsdale/Tempe/Phoenix area. Attracted 95 firms from 6 countries. Ten finalist displayed full-scale details/installations. With Director Susan Krane.

Beyond/In Western New York 2007, Fall 2007 Albright-Knox Project Director for expanded regional biennial, including Toronto, Syracuse, and Cleveland, with twelve Buffalo art organizations. 955 submissions, 107 studio visits, 50 artists exhibited. $245,000 raised (x2.5 previous incarnation) Recipient of 2009 STAR Not-for-Profit Award from the Bi-national (US/Canada) Tourism Alliance.

Remix Color and Light, Fall 2007 Albright-Knox

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Companion to The Panza Collection: An Experience of Light and Color. Examines the history of light and color, beginning with American landscape painting, European impressionism and post-impressionism to consider its changing role aesthetically, culturally, and politically. Work by Josef Albers, David Batchelor, Rudolf de Crignis, Richard Diebenkorn, Tony Feher, Dan Flavin, Paul Gauguin, Donald Judd, Craig Kauffman, Yves Klein, John McLaughlin, Joseph Marioni, Henri Matisse, Ando Hiroshige, Sarah Morris, Florence Pierce, Jennifer Steinkamp, Clyfford Still, and Tom Wesselmann, among others.

Extreme Abstraction, Summer 2005 Albright-Knox International survey of contemporary abstraction 255 works by over 150 artists presented in the context of the Albright-Knox’s historical collection. This campus-wide project of 35,000 sq feet included twenty site-specific installations, ten of which are special AK commissions, by Todd Brandt, ChanSchatz, Liam Gillick, Arturo Herrera, Jim Isermann, Adrian Schiess, Leo Villareal, and Pae White. Also works by John Armleder, David Batchelor, Ingrid Calame, Mary Heilmann, Jim Lambie, Ernesto Neto, Roxy Paine, Karim Rashid, Jennifer Steinkamp, and Franz West. Permanent collection works by Polly Apfelbaum, Lynda Benglis, Linda Besermer, Arshile Gorky, Craig Kauffman, Donald Judd, Wassily Kandinsky, Joan Miró, Piet Mondrain, Olivier Mosset, Georgia O’Keeffe, Jackson Pollock, Ken Price, Gerhard Richter, Frank Stella, Sophie Tauber-Arp. Three artists curated in-depth selections from the collection: John Armleder, John Beech, Jim Isermann. With Director Louis Grachos.

Franz West: Recent Sculptures at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 2004-2005 Albright-Knox In Sculpture Garden that had not been re-installed for 25 years of showcasing classic modernist works.

Bodily Space: New Obsessions in Figurative Sculpture, Spring/Summer 2004 Albright-Knox Janine Antoni, Robert Gober, Bruce Nauman, Ron Mueck, and Kiki Smith among others. With Holly Hughes.

Mori on Wright: Designs for Frank Lloyd Wright’s Visitor Center, AKAG, Fall 2003 Albright-Knox Collaboration between the Albright-Knox Art Gallery; the Martin House Restoration Corporation, Buffalo, New York; and the School of Architecture and Planning, University at Buffalo, SUNY

OO44: Contemporary Irish Artists in Britain, Fall 1999 P.S. 1 Exhibition traveled from Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland to PS1, New York City & Albright-Knox.

Earmarks, 1999 International survey of public/relocated sound art. With Jacqueline VanRhyn. Mass MoCA

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Spirits Dance in Buffalo: A Dialogue with Our Ancestors, 2019 Burchfield Penney Art Center with C.S.1 West African Choreographer Robin Hibbert and Williams Crouse’s Allegany Indian River Dancers weave two ancient traditions together in a unique performance. Their connection honors the original peoples of the Silo City site, who share a reverence for the earth and spirit. Unique, first-time cross community collaboration.

Pavilion for Forgotten Skies, TBD Artfarms with C.S.1 Curatorial Projects Matthew Walker’s earth mound with planetary simulation for City Honors High School garden. Ran invitational competition for this new organization which commissions site-specific work for urban farms on Buffalo’s Eastside.

Full Circle, October 20, 2016 – ongoing CEPA Gallery with C.S.1 Curatorial Projects Interactive sculpture, by architects Julia Jamrozik and Coryn Kempster of BACKOFFICE, brings a piece of playground equipment together with the charged special arrangement of political round-tables and corporate conference rooms. Situated on the Westside of Buffalo across from an International School where over 30 languages are spoken. Curator and Community and School Outreach. Part of CEPA’s Westside Lots Projects.

A Kalevala Duo, Playing Bones, October 11, 2015 C.S.1 Curatorial Projects Commissioned collaboration between artist Pia Lindman and new music ensemble Wooden Cities for FinnFest 2015. In response to the ancient Finnish text the Kalevala, Lindman performs an ancient healing technique left out of its official retellings, while the musicians play special corresponding scores. This piece was a feminist critique of male readings what also inspired the Saarinen designed Kleinhan’s stage on which it was performed.

Felice Koenig: Drawing Together, April 25-May 16, 2015 C.S.1 Curatorial Projects Drawing as social practice. Abstract, meditative painter invites non-artists to draw collaboratively with her in real time. 80 drawing unfolding like 90 minute jazz like collaborations. Awarded one of Ten Best Exhibition of 2016 by The Buffalo News. Host Big Orbit. Article “Drawing Love” in collaboration with Drawing Center, NY, NY.

Territory of Collaboration, Summer 2014 C.S.1 Curatorial Projects Permanent private garden as public sculpture by artist Alfonso Volo and landscape designer Matt Dore for a space along Buffalo’s Olmstead designed parkway. Emphasis on creating a formal and conceptual relationship built around templates gleamed from the site’s building. Includes plants shared from neighbors.

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Fargo City-Table-House Repast, May 17, 2014 C.S.1 Curatorial Projects A processional tasting through nine fantastic rooms of Dennis Maher’s Fargo House with chef Colleen Stillwell. Participants will metaphorically “eat” the house by simultaneously consuming its culinary equivalents.

Eat Your Hearts Out: A Sensual Migration Through Buffalo’s Past, and Future C.S.1 Curatorial Projects Fall 2013, Debut Echo Art Fair. Food + Art Dinner CSA by conceptual artist Lynne McCabe & chef Colleen Stillwell. Three dinners (two take home) traced immigrant food histories of Buffalo w key location pick-ups.

Chris Barr: Meaningful Offers, September 2013, Echo Art Fair Social practice art fair critique C.S.1 Projects

Mel Ziegler: Smell the Roses & Military Day, October 2010 – February 2011 Cheekwood

Bridges: Spanning the Ideas of Paolo Soleri, Fall 2010 SMoCA Examines this architect, artist and pioneer of new human spaces design for bridges to coincide with Soleri’s first ever-built bridge project at the Scottsdale Waterfront. With Scottsdale Public Art.

Aaron Rothman: The Far Field, June – September 2010 Cheekwood Site-specific commission of light and space installation artist and photographer.

Architecture + Art: 90 Days Over 100º, Summer 2010 SMoCA First exhibition in a new series. Emerging Phoenix architects Jay Atherton and Cy Keener will orchestrate the monetary orchestration of natural phenomena by manipulating water and light.

Virginia Overton, March – June 2010 Cheekwood Site-specific commission.

After Bacon: Capturing the Angst, Spring 2007 Albright-Knox Works on paper/editions by Cecily Brown, Nicola Tyson, Lisa Yuskavage, Jeremy Bailey, and Paul McCarthy.

Ideas First: Editions and Multiples, Fall 2007 Albright-Knox ChanSchatz, Anna Gaskell, Liam Gillick, Jim Hodges, Jim Isermann, Glenn Ligon, Fred Tomaselli, Kiki Smith, Leo Villareal.

Laylah Ali, in collaboration with the Atlanta College of Art Gallery, Winter 2003 Albright-Knox First museum exhibition.

New Room of Contemporary Art: Paul Noble, Fall 2002 Albright-Knox First solo museum exhibition in North America.

Circa 1900: From the Genteel Tradition to the Jazz Age, Summer 2001 Albright-Knox

New Room of Contemporary Art: Cathy de Monchaux, Summer 2000 First museum exhibition in North America by this sculptor shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 1998.

In Western New York 2000, Winter 2000 Albright-Knox

New Room of Contemporary Art: Gerrit Engel: Buffalo Grain Elevators, Fall 1999 Albright-Knox German photographer of historical places connected to modernism and its decay.

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Remix The Collection (Recent Acquisitions), Fall 2006/Winter 2007/Summer 2007 Thematic dialogues with contemporary and historical works. Remix Identity and Abstraction: David Hammons, Rachel Lachowicz, Glenn Ligon, Jackson Pollock, and Sue Williams. Remix Robert Therrien: Gregory Crewdson, Hollis Frampton and Marion Faller, and Michael Snow, Edward Weston, Remix Minimal Narratives: Janine Antoni, Sarah Charlesworth, Marcel Duchamp, Jeanne Dunning, Mona Hautom, John Phafl, and Doris Saledo. Remix Non- place Place: Ralston Crawford, Liam Gillick, Tim Hyde, Kathy Prendergast, Ed Ruscha, and Thomas Scheibitz. Remix James Turrell. Remix Matthew Barney.

Formal Exchange: The Albright-Knox Art Gallery and Latin America, Winter 2005 Latin American abstraction from the 1960s and 70s. Paid homage to Mr. Seymour H. Knox’s revolutionary collecting habits, work purchased directly from Buenos Aires galleries and loan of 109 masterworks to Argentina’s national museum in 1969. Martha Boto, Sergio de Camargo, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Lucio Fontana, Julio Le Parc, Cesar Paternosto, Jesus Raphael Soto, and Joaquin Torres-Garcia.

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Architecture into Form, Fall 2003 Investigated importance of buildings, cities, and man-made structures as a source of inspiration and a cornerstone for artistic breakthroughs in modern and contemporary art. Dynamic dialogue between minimalist sculpture and l Large-scale photography from the Becher school, as well as American and European modernist works by Ben Nicholson, Piet Mondrian, Stuart Davis, and Anne Truitt.

Janine Antoni: Incarnate, Fall 2003 Installation of four works dealing with birth, death, human and animal familial connections.

In Focus: Themes in Photography, Fall 2004 Uta Barth, Matthew Barney, Gregory Crewdson, Thomas Demand, Jeanne Dunning, Philip-Lorca di Corcia, Olafur Eliasson, Zwelethu Mthethwa, Shirin Neshat, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and Jeff Wall.

The Spirit of Joseph Cornell: A Curator’s View of Works on Paper from the Collection, Spring 2002

Fresh: Recent Acquisitions, Fall 2001 Online catalogue at http://www.albrightknox.org/fresh/main.html.

Rembrandt to Rauschenberg: The Norton Print Collection, Fall 2000 Major gift of 900-plus prints from fifteenth to twentieth century. (With Curator Kenneth Wayne)

Next to Nothing: Minimalist Works from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Fall 1998.

COORDINATED EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED) Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Every Other, Winter 2011 SMoCA New Museum of Contemporary Art exhibition. Secured key funds to bring exhibition.

Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth, Summer/Fall 2009 SMoCA Customized installation with Cave. Commissioned Soundsuit performance with Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts. 700 attended. Extensive educational programming.

Drawing Architecture: LJ Cella Collection, Fall 2007 Albright-Knox

Andrea Zittel: Critical Space, Fall 2006 Albright-Knox Initiated/developed project team for institutionally groundbreaking and comprehensive programming, including a Response Room, Conversation Facilitator, and Everybody Guide. More popular than previous O’Keeffe exhibit.

Julie Mehretu: Drawing into Painting, Winter 2003 Albright-Knox Collaborated with Albright-Knox education staff on innovative audio guide with artist voice, teen insight, and a curator’s historical perspective. Artist and Walker curator said best installation of the traveling exhibition.

Eye on the Collection: Julie Mehretu, Winter 2003 Albright-Knox Artist selected – with work by Albert Beirstadt, Kara Walker, Richard Long, and Jackson Pollock.

S E L E C T E D P U B L I C A T I O N S “Love 2.0” (working title), co-write with Barbara Fredrickson, Handbook of Positive Psychology on the Arts and Humanities: Theory and Research, forthcoming 2020 Contribute chapter on love and its effects to handbook historical trends and conceptual work grounding the relationship between the humanities and human flourishing with psychological and behavioral pathways from the humanities to flourishing.

“Curator/Artist/Chef: Eating a Work of Art,” The Taste Culture Reader: Experiencing Food and Drink, ed. Carolyn Korsmeyer, Second Edition, 2017. Discuss C.S.1 Curatorial Projects’ two food + art projects Eat Your Hearts Out: A Sensual Migration through Buffalos’ Past, Present and Future and Fargo City-Table-House Repast. Address how contemporary artists are incorporating food into their artistic practices as they would any other medium. What happens when they collaborate with a world-class chef? What is the role of the taste experience? What does food allow that other art forms do not?

“Drawing Love,” Bottom Line, Drawing Center blog, posted May 12, 2015. Argues for drawings as perfect medium to capture the ephemera, cumulative, and difficult to record collections of tender, fleeting, reciprocal actions in works by Felice Koenig Jim Hodges, Katerina Seda, Yayoi Kusama, Janine Antoni, and others.

“Jim Hodges, Winter Speaks, 2015,” in New Editions Issue Art in Print Vol. 5, No. 6 (March-April 2016). Details new five-color etching from two plates with chine collé and screenprinted Gampi sheet with cutouts. Printed at Highpoint Center for Printmaking and published with Walker Art Center.

More Love: Art, Politics, and Sharing since the 1990s, editor, Ackland Art Museum, UNC, Chapel Hill February 2013 This comprehensive publication accompanies the first major exhibition to investigate the ways contemporary artists have addressed the subject of love as a political force, as a philosophical model for equitable knowledge exchange, and as social interaction within a rapidly changing landscape of technology and social media. This 240-page, fully-

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illustrated catalogue includes essays by queer scholar Jonathan Katz and social practice scholar Shannon Jackson, artists Dario Robleto and Lynne McCabe, as well as supplementary materials ranging from Yoko Ono’s Twitter feed to facsimiles of love letters to artists in the exhibition. Includes through entries on each featured artist. Combining scholarly, artist, and visitor voices, it serves as an important introduction to the topic of love in contemporary art from the past twenty years. More Love ultimately chronicles the shift from artists refocusing their work from self to other, inviting readers to consider art as a mode of contractual exchange between artists and audiences. Claire Schneider (editor) and (introductory essay) “Love as a Strategic Impulse,” 13-56; Carol Becker, Michael Hardt, James J. Hodge, Shannon Jackson, Lynne McCabe, Jonathan D. Katz, Dario Robleto, Claire Schneider, Rebecca Zorach (essays); Laurel Nakadate, Gregory Sale, Katheřina Šedá (interviews); Jennie Carlisle, Emily Mangione, Annemarie Sawkins, Lucie Steinberg, Amy White (artist entries); Chris Barr, Tracey Emin, Harrell Fletcher, Hadassa Goldvicht, Sarah Gotowka, Tad Hozumi, Antonio Vega Macotela, Rivane Neuenschwander, Yoko Ono, Julianne Swartz, Lee Walton (artist words)

“Greater America,” here., ed Julien Robson (Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 2011), 78-93. Temporary Contemporary: Mel Ziegler: Smell the Flowers, Exhibition Brochure, Cheekwood, February 2011 Temporary Contemporary: Aaron Rothman: The Far Field, Exhibition Brochure, Cheekwood, July 2010 Temporary Contemporary: Virginia Overton, Exhibition Brochure, Cheekwood, March 2010 Soaps, Flukes & Follies, Exhibition Brochure, Cheekwood, March 2010 Rewind Remix Replay: Design, Music & Everyday Experience, Online Catalogue, SMoCA, January 2010 www.rewindremixreplay.org Seriously Funny, Exhibition Catalogue, SMoCA, February 2008 “Interview with Andrea Schiess,” Adrian Schiess, Indianapolis Museum of Art, October 2007 “Something Funny about Color,” AK Now, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Oct/Nov/Dec 2007 Beyond/In Western New York 2007, Exhibition Catalogue, Entries on Lois Andison, Jeremy Bailey, Chris Barr, Simone Mantallesi, Michael Snow, and Acknowledgements, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Fall 2007 “Everybody Guide” for Andrea Zittel: Critical Space, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Fall 2006 “Andrea Zittel and Thoreau,” AK Now, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Sept/Oct 2006 Extreme Abstraction, Artist Book/Exhibition Catalogue designed by artist Pae White, Collaborated on design concept. Facilitated production, including extensive archival image selection, essay “Extreme Needs Abstraction,” 2005 “Anitra Hamilton,” Shape of Colour: Excursions in Colour Field Art, 1950-2005, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto June 1 to August 7, 2005. Matthew Barney Cremaster Cycle film screening and lecture with Richard Food, with Hallwalls, 2003. Laylah Ali, Exhibition Brochure & teacher packet for high school students. Albright-Knox, Fall 2002 “Photography Circa 1900,” Circa 1900: From the Genteel Tradition to the Jazz Age, Albright-Knox, Summer 2001. “Kiki Smith,” Dictionary of Sculpture, 2001 OO44: Contemporary Irish Artists in Britain, “Kathy Prendergast: Maps and other Limbo States,” “Interview with Paul Seawright,” “Interview with Eilis O’Connell,” Fall 1999 New Room of Contemporary Art, Angela Grauerholz: Sententia I to LXII, Brochure, Albright-Knox, Summer 1999 Circa, Contemporary Visual Art’s magazine from Ireland, 1998. Reviews. Kiki Smith: Reclaiming the Abject, Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art Qualifying Paper, 1997. “Christina Kubish,” Exhibition Brochure, MassMoCA, 1997

SELECTED LECTURES

James Baldwin Reading & Discussion Group, Project Director, Hallwalls & C.S.1 Curatorial Projects, initiate Buffalo program developed by Humanities New York, Spring 2019 to create cross-neighborhood dialogues How Intimacy Disrupts Power, Conference on Performance Art “What’s Love Got To Do With It?”, Lisbon, Feb. 19, 2019 Curator as Forager, Discuss Claire Schneider’s curatorial practice. Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Feb. 2016 Performing Economies Colloquium, “Cultural Production in a Changing Economy,” Univ. of Buffalo, April 5, 2014 Regionalism in Art: New Perceptions of Here, co-chair with Xandra Eden, CAA February 2014 More Love: From Emotional Conceptualism to Social Practice, Cheekwood, September 2013 “Collaborative Collecting,” on Collecting (Our Thoughts) with Robert C. Hobbs and Jeff Whetstone, Ackland Art Museum, UNC Chapel Hill, November 2011.

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Introduction to Relational Aesthetics, Arizona State University, April 2010 Daumier, Picasso, Duchamp: Laughing at Ourselves, SMoCA, February 2009 Renegotiating Value Through Collaboration, Community, and Exchange, CAA panel on “The Contemporary Collaborator in an Interdisciplinary World,” Dallas, February 2008 What they don’t teach you in Art School about the Art World, Carnegie Art Center, September 2007 James Turrell and the Magic of Seeing, April 2007 (Albright-Knox Art Gallery unless otherwise noted) Miami and the Art Fair, March 2007 Contemporary Art and Surrealism, University of Buffalo, February 2007 Remix Identity and Abstraction, January 2007 Extreme Abstraction, Why and How, Yale University, April 2006 Claire Schneider on Clare Woods, April 2005 An Introduction to New Media, UB Architecture School, April 2005 Too Much, Too Fast, Too Soon: An Introduction to Extreme Abstraction, Canisus College, March 2005 In Depth: John McCracken and Franz West, November 2004 In Depth: Julie Mehretu, Arturo Herrera, Robert Gober, March 2004 Kiki Smith: All the Ins & Outs, March 2003 A Closer Look at Romare Bearden, March 2002 Learning to Love the Art You Don’t Understand (or Learning to Understand the Art You Don’t Love), March 2001 & Chautauqua Center for the Visual Arts, July 2001 Historical Happenings at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, January 2000 Contemporary Art, Abjection, and Beyond, January 1999 Kiki Smith: Reclaiming the Abject, given at Irish Museum of Modern Art to coincide Kiki Smith: Convergence, 1998.

Kiki Smith: Reclaiming the Abject, Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art, June 1997

SELECTED ACQUISITIONS FOR THE ALBRIGHT-KNOX ART GALLERY Laylah Ali, Brian Alfred, Matthew Barney, David Batchelor, Linda Besemer, Sophie Calle, Jeanne Dunning, Gerrit Engel, Ellen Gallagher, Anna Gaskell, Robert Gober, Jim Hodges, David Hammons, Tim Hyde, Callum Innes, Nikki S. Lee, Glenn Ligon, Cathy de Monchaux, Inigo Manglano-Ovalle, Kathy Prendergast, Orit Raff, David Reed, Lorna Simpson, Kiki Smith, Linda Stark, Sue Williams, Lisa Yuskavage, Roxy Paine, Jim Isermann, Louis Cameron, John Tremblay, Jim Lambie, Clare Woods, Ricci Albenda, Ernesto Neto, Jennifer Steinkamp, Kara Walker, Kelley Walker, Carrie Yamaoka.

RESIDENCY Piece, Play, Propagate, Haystack, Maine, July 2018 What’s Love Got To Do With It?, The Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada, January & February 2011

COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES (SELECTED) University at Buffalo, School of Architecture & Planning, visiting critic, 2017-18 Roswell Park Cancer Institute Alliance Art Committee, 2015-2017 BreadHive Worker Cooperative Bakery, Founding Investor, 2013-present. http://www.breadhive.com. American Association of Museum Curators, Website Committee, 2010-2012, Career Support Committee, 2014-2017 Desert Initiative Planning Committee, Sponsored by Bruce Ferguson, Future Arts Research, ASU, 2009/2010 Arts Writing Initiative, Scottsdale/Phoenix, Founder and Director, 2009 Juror for GSA Percent for Art Program awarding $835,000 to Nogales Border Crossing Station, 2009 Liaison to architecture schools’ extension to Albright-Knox: Carnegie Mellon, 2006 & University of Buffalo, 2007 Urban Roots Community Garden Center, Buffalo, NY, Founding Board Member, 2004-2007 1st national cooperative garden center in U.S. that revitalized Buffalo’s West Side neighborhood. www.urbanroots.org Buffalo State College Student Conservation Fellowships Liaison, 2002-2007 Jury Exhibitions, Selected: Hunting Art Prize, Houston, 2012; Arizona State University Video Competition; 2010, Everson Museum of Art Biennial, Syracuse, NY, 2006; Big Orbit Members Exhibition, Bufffalo, NY 2002; CEPA Members Exhibition, Buffalo, NY, 2000; NYSCA Studio Residencies, Buffalo, NY, 1999

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