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ALIZA SHVARTS CV www.alizashvarts.com

SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2018 Off Scene, Artspace, New Haven, CT ​ 2016 Aliza Shvarts, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin, Ireland ​ 2010 Knowing You Want It, UCLA Royce Hall, Los Angeles, CA ​

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019 Study Session: Aliza Shvarts, Ayanna Dozier, and Narcissister, The Whitney Museum, NYC 2019 In Practice: Other Objects. SculptureCenter, Long Island City, NY th ​ 2018 ANTI, 6 ​ Athens Biennale. Athens, Greece ​ ​ 2018 A new job to unwork at, Participant Inc, NYC ​ 2018 Aliza Shvarts, Patty Chang & David Kelley. Marathon Screenings, Los Angeles, CA. ​ 2018 International Festival of Arts&Ideas, Public art commission. New Haven, CT ​ 2017 (No) Coma Cuento, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia ​ 2017 Aliza Shvarts and Devin Kenny, Video Artists Working Group, Artists Space, NYC ​ 2017 Goldman Club (with Emanuel Almborg), Dotory, Brooklyn, NY ​ 2016 Situational Diagram: Exhibition Walkthrough, Lévy Gorvy Gallery, NYC ​ 2016 SALT Magazine and Montez Press present, Mathew Gallery, NYC ​ 2016 eX-céntrico: dissidence, sovereignties, performance, The Hemispheric Institute, Santiago, Chile ​ 2016 Subject to capital, Abrons Arts Center, NYC ​ 2015 Soap Box Session: Directing Action, ]performance s p a c e[ London, England. ​ 2015 Learning to Speak in a Future Tense, Abrons Arts Center, NYC ​ 2015 The Magic Flute (with Vaginal Davis), 80WSE Gallery. NYC ​ 2015 On Sabotage (screening), South London Gallery, London ​

GRANTS AND AWARDS

2019 A.I.R Artist Fellowship, A.I.R Gallery 2019 Young Scholar Award, International Association for Aesthetics 2017 Franco Coli Dissertation Award 2017 Critical Writing Fellow, Recess 2015 Joan Tisch Teaching Fellowship, The Whitney Museum of American Art 2014 Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant 2014 Helen Rubinstein Fellowship, Whitney Independent Study Program 2014 Stefanos Tsigrimanis Artistic Scholar Award for PhD Artist-Scholars in Performance Studies 2012/14 Paulette Godard Scholarship awarded by the Performance Studies faculty for excellence 2012 Faculty-Sponsored Best Paper Prize, Stony Brook College English Graduate Student Conference 2011 Graduate Student Forum Fellowship for Interdisciplinary “Forms of Seeing” Forum, NYU 2010 Corrigan Doctoral Fellowship for PhD in Performance Studies, NYU (2010-2014) 2010 Spotlighted Scholar Award, National Graduate Student Performance Studies Conference, UCLA 2008 Lloyd Mifflin Prize for English, Yale University ​ ​ 2007 Louise Sudler Performing Arts Award, Yale University 2005 PASCA Scholarship, RISD/Yale, Pont-Aven School of Contemporary Art (Brittany)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

_Yerebakan, Osman Can :“The Artist Making Installations Out of Rape Kits,” The Cut, 15 January 2019, ​ ​ https://www.thecut.com/2019/01/aliza-shvarts-rape-kit-exhibition-is-a-sad-american-picture.html _Alptraum, Lux: Faking It: The Lies Women Tell About Sex—And the Truths They Reveal (New York: Seal Press, 2018). ​ ​ _Abrar,Laryb: “Abortion Art and its #MeToo Moments,” Musee Magazine, 25 July 2018, ​ ​ http://museemagazine.com/features/2018/7/24/abortion-art-and-its-metoo-moments _Alptraum,Lux “There is Life After Campus Infamy,” The New York Times, 21 July 2018. ​ ​ https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/21/style/campus-sex-women-exposure.html _Crowder, Jenna :“Language at the Edge of Legibility: Aliza Shvarts at Artspace New Haven,” Temporary ​ Art Review, 28 June 2018. http://temporaryartreview.com/language-at-the-edges-of-legality-aliza-shvarts-at-artspace-new-haven ​ _Olunkwa, Emmanuel “Interview: Aliza Shvarts,” Artforum, 18 June 2018. ​ ​ https://www.artforum.com/interviews/aliza-shvarts-talks-about-her-exhibition-at-artspace-in-new-haven-connecticut-75730 _Vogel, Wendy: “Going Viral: Aliza Shvarts’s Daring Performance Work,” Mousse Magazine, Issue 64 ​ ​ (Summer 2018). _Fusco, Coco: "Learning the Rules of the Game," Texte Zur Kunst, 109 (March 2018): 108-127. ​ ​ _Plackis-Cheng, Paksy :Women of Impact (Santa Barbara, CA: Impactmania, 2018). ​ ​ _Kachel, Andrew: "Aliza Shvarts," Out of Order Magazine (Summer 2017): 257-267. ​ ​ _T. Nikki Cesare Schotzko, Learning How to Fall: Art and Culture After September 11 (New York: Routledge 2015). ​ ​ _Grahovac, Ana: “Aliza Shvarts’s Art of Aborting: Queer Conceptions and Reproductive Futurism,” Studies in the Maternal, 5(2), ​ ​ 1-19. www.mamsie.bbk.ac.uk/articles/abstract/10.16995/sim.17/ _Doyle, Jennifer :Hold it Against Me: Difficulty and Emotion in Contemporary Art (Durham: Duke University ​ ​ Press, 2013). _Friedlander, Jennifer: “Representing Uncertainty: Aliza Shvarts's Unseen Yale Art Project,” Resolutions 3: Global Networks of ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Video, ed. Ming-Yuen Ma and Erika Suderburg (University of Minnesota Press, 2012): 235–40. ​ ​ ​ _Hall Hagan, Lisa :“A performance ethics of the ‘real’ body: the case of Aliza Shvarts and ‘Untitled [Senior Thesis], 2008,” Performing Ethos, 2:1 (2012). ​ _Candelario, Rosemary :Abortion Performance and Politics, CSW Update, UCLA Center for the Study of Women (2012): ​ ​ https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7sv5h222 _Roach, Joseph: “Deep Play, Dark Play: Framing the Limit(less),“ The Rise of Performance Studies: ​ Rethinking Richard Schechner’s Broad Spectrum, eds. James Martin Harding and Cindy Rosenthal (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, ​ 2011): 275-283. _Steiner, Wendy: The Real Real Thing: The Model in the Mirror of Art (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2010). ​ ​ _Lambert-Beatty, Carrie:“Make-Believe: Parafiction and Plausibility”, October No. 129 (Summer 2009): 51-84. Cambridge, MA: MIT ​ ​ University Press.

EDUCATION

2014 - 2019 PhD, Performance Studies, New York University, NYC 2014 - 2015 Whitney Independent Study Program, Critical Studies, NYC 2010 - 2014 MPhil, Performance Studies, New York University, NYC 2009 - 2010 MA, Performance Studies, New York University, NYC 2004 - 2008 BA, English Literature and Fine Art (Sculpture), Yale University, New Haven, CT Summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa (2007) ​

RESIDENCIES 2019 Triangle Arts Association. Brooklyn, NY 2014 Art&Law Program. Dir. Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento. Fordham Law School, NYC 2008 PRAXIS Mohave Performance Residency. Dir. Ron Athey and Julie Tolentino. Joshua Tree, CA 2005 RISD/Yale University Pont-Aven Painting Residency. Dir. Robert Reed. Pont-Ave

PUBLICATIONS

Peer-Reviewed Articles

“Living Labor: Between Marxism and Performance Studies,” Special Issue: Living Labor, guest edited by Aliza Shvarts and Joshua ​ ​ ​ Lubin-Levy, Women and Performance, a journal of feminist theory (February 2017). London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis. ​ ​ “Nonconsensual Collaborations: Notes on a Shared Condition,” Special Issue: A Gun for Every Girl, guest edited by Trista Mallory, Jen Kennedy, and Angelique Szymanek The Journal of Feminist Scholarship (Spring 2017). MA: University of Massachusetts, ​ ​ Dartmouth Press. “Troubled Air: SunnO)))’s Metal Maieutic”. Special Issue: The Haptic, guest edited by Rizvana Bradley, Women & Performance, a ​ ​ ​ journal of feminist theory, Vol. 24, No. 2-3 (2014): 203-219. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis. ​ “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Rape Kit,” Extensions: The Online Journal of Embodiment and Technology, Issue 6 ​ ​ ​ ​ (October 2011). Republished in Feminist and Queer Information Studies Reader, eds. Patrick Keilty and Rebecca Dean ​ ​ (Sacramento: Litwin Press, 2013).

Catalogue Essays MoMA Highlights: 350 Works from the Museum of Modern Art, various entries. MoMA, NYC (forthcoming ) ​ “Lady Lumps.” The Rational Dress Society: Cultural Uniform. Art in General. Brooklyn, NY. ​ ​ ​ ​ “Telling Aporiai.” Kinetics of Violence: Alexander Calder and Cady Noland. Venus Over Manhattan. NYC. ​ ​ “Glynn Nash.” Alternate Routes: Queer Artist Fellowship. The Leslie-Lohmann Museum of Gay and ​ ​ Lesbian Art, NYC (June 2018). “Alienation, too, has its uses” (co-written with Begum Yasar). Adrian Piper (Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2017). Lévy Gorvy, NYC. ​ ​ “Atomic Time: On Karin Schneider’s Black Paintings.” Situational Diagram, Ed. Karin Schneider and Begum Yasar (Berlin: ​ ​ Sternberg Press, 2016). Lévy Gorvy, NYC. “On Sabotage.” Bodies Burning at the Edges (with Kiki Smith, Jacolby Satterwhite, Robert Montgomery, and Thomas Beale). ​ ​ Curated by Sarah Victoria Bothwell Fels and Jonah King. Leroy Neiman Gallery. Columbia University, NYC (October 2015).

Other “Doom Donkey: Mick Barr’s Drone of Information and The Rainbow Supremacy,” Black Metal Rainbows: Queer Metal Anthology. ​ ​ ​ ​ eds. Daniel Lukes and Stanimir Panayotov) (forthcoming) “How does it feel to be a fiction?” Critical writing in conjunction with Public Opinion Laboratory/Andrew Lampert: Faked/Out). ​ ​ Recess, NYC (2017). “KANNON/CANON” (liner notes for studio album). Kannon. SunnO))) (Southern Lord: November 2016). ​ ​ “Black Wedding,” Special Issue: Polyphony. ed. Jarrett Earnest, The Brooklyn Rail (Brooklyn, February 2015). ​ ​ http://www.brooklynrail.org/2015/02/criticspage/black-wedding “Fatherfucker,” SALT: Contemporary Art and Feminism Magazine, Issue 7: Heterophobia (London: Montez ​ ​ Press, 2014). “The Con,” TDR/The Drama Review, Summer 2014, Vol. 28, No. 2 (T222): 2-3. Cambridge: MIT University Press. ​ ​ ​ “A seam that sutures the biological to the aesthetic,” Special Issue: Non-Reproduction: Politics, Ethics, Aesthetics, Studies in the ​ Maternal, Vol. 1, Issue 6 (2014). Birkbeck University of London. http://www.mamsie.bbk.ac.uk/ ​ ​ “On Intimacies and Writing Histories of Performance: An Interview with Amelia Jones,” Oratures Vol 1 ​ ​ (2013), Performance Studies NYU. 200 Women. (New York: Limited edition zine produced by Cage with Andrew Roth Gallery for ​ the New York Art Book Fair at MoMA PS1, 2013). “Figuration and Failure, Performance and Pedagogy: Reflections Three Years Later,” Women & ​ Performance, a journal of feminist theory, Vol. 21, No. 1 (2011): 161-168. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis. Excerpted in ​ ​ Whitechapel Documents in Contemporary Art: Practice, eds. Marcus Boon and Gabriel Levine (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2018) ​ “Shvarts Explains [...],” The Yale Daily News, April 18 2008. ​ ​ http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2008/apr/18/shvarts-explains-her-repeated-self-induced/ “The Ming Period,” My Little Red Book. ed. Rachel Kauder Nalebuff (New York: Twelve, 2009): 43-45. ​ ​

TEACHING The Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC (2015-present) Joan Tisch Teaching Fellow Learning Series Lectures: The Whitney Biennial: A History of Reinvention and Contention, 1932-present (2019) ​ Why Warhol Now? (2018) Utopian Aesthetics from Andy Warhol to Laura Owens (2017-2018) ​

Critical Utopianism from Yoko One to Jimmie Durham (2017) ​ This Space: Art and Nationhood (2017) ​ PARTICIPATION/OCCUPATION/BELONGING (2017) ​ Seminars: I Shot Andy Warhol: Labor, Feminism, and the Problem of Spectacle (2019) ​ Critical Looking: Codes and Choreographies (2018-present) Critical Looking: Borders and Belonging (2018) Critical Looking: The Aesthetics and Politics of Display (2017-18) Critical Looking: Gendered Subjects (2017-18) Critical Looking: Art and Politics (in conjunction with the 2017 Whitney Biennial) (2017) On Expanded Cinema (in conjunction with Dreamlands) (2016) Institutional Critique, the Prison Industrial Complex, and Andrea Fraser’s Down the River (2016) ​ ​ Thematic Gallery Tours: No One Exists Alone: Queer Belonging (2017-present) ​ Intersections: Race and Gender in American Art (2018) ​ Queer Protest: No Idle Gesture (2018) ​ Queer Bodies: LGBT Perspectives in the Whitney’s Permanent Collection (2016) ​ Lecturer, The Whitney Independent Study Program: Guest Seminar, “Off Scene,” The Whitney Independent Study Program (2018)

The New School, NYC (2016-present) Part-time Assistant Professor, Parsons School of Design, Fine Arts (MFA Program) Courses: Critical Thinking 1 and 2 (2015-present); Performing Off-Scene (Fall 2019) Part-Time Assistant Professor, School of Art and Design History and Theory (BFA Program) Courses: Performance Art and Theory (Spring 2016). Part-Time Assistant Professor, Eugene Lang College (BA/MA Program) ​ ​ Courses: Race and Radicalism in Contemporary Art (Spring 2016); Postwar Art and Theory (Fall 2016)

Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY (2017-present) Visiting Assistant Professor, Performance and Performance Studies Courses: Special Topics in Cultural Studies: Queer Performance and Politics (Fall 2018) ​ ​ ​ ​ Visiting Assistant Professor, Fine Arts Courses: Fine Arts Seminar III (Fall 2017) ​ ​ Guest Lecturer, Sculpture III (Prof. Analia Segal) Workshop: Performing Objects (2016) ​ ​

Justice-in-Education Initiative, Heyman Center, Columbia University, NYC (2017-present) Guest Lecturer, Rose M. Singer Center, Rikers Island Seminars: Power and Portraiture (2017); Art and Protest (2018) ​ ​ ​ ​

Arts Research Cooperative, Los Angeles, CA (2018-present) Founding Faculty (with Maura Brewer and Trista Mallory) The Arts Research Cooperative [ARC] is an LA-based interdisciplinary summer residency program invested in supporting a range of non-material, discursive and research-based art practices

New York University, NYC (2014-2015) Part-Time Assistant Professor, Performance Studies (undergraduate major Course: Race and Performance (Fall 2015) Teaching Assistant, New York University, Department of Social and Cultural Analysis Course: Religion, Sexuality, and American Public Life (Prof. Ann Pellegrini, Spring 2015) Teaching Assistant, NYU, Performance Studies (MA Program) Course: Introduction to Performance Studies (Prof. André Lepecki, Summer 2014)

Barnard College at Columbia University, NYC (2014) Teaching Assistant, Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Course: Critical Approaches to Social and Cultural Theory (Prof. Neferti Tadiar, Fall 2014)

SELECTED TALKS, CONFERENCES, AND SYMPOSIA 2019 “Do Art Schools Need Trigger Warnings?” (invited panellist). College Art Association Conference. NYC 2018 “The Museum as a site of Resistance” (invited panellist). New England Museum Association Conference. Stamford, CT 2018 Roundtable Discussion with Robert Post, Yale Law School, Artspace, New Haven, CT 2018 Beyond Parafiction (artist talk), Digital and Interdisciplinary Practice, CUNY, NYC 2018 “Banners Project: Workshop,” Ely Center for Contemporary, New Haven, CT 2017 The Practical Past: Intergenerational Feminisms (roundtable with Mary Kelly, Renee Green, Emily Apter, and Trista Mallory), ​ ​ Mitchell-Innes & Nash, NYC 2017 Propagate: Art Pedagogies Retreat Teach-in (with Jennifer Gonzalez, T.J. Demos, John Weber, and others), Institute of the ​ ​ Arts and Sciences at UC Santa Cruz / SFMoMA, San Francisco, CA 2017 Glitch Girls: Screening and discussion with Jen Liu and Aliza Shvarts. James Gallery, NYC ​ 2017 In the Last Instance (roundtable with Avram Finkelstein, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, and Joshua Lubin Levy), Artist Space, ​ NYC th 2017 “Consent/Dissent: A talk by Aliza Shvarts and Emma Sulkowicz,” The 8 ​ Floor at the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation, ​ NYC 2016 Perpetual Inventory: Round-table discussion with Karin Schneider and Begum Yasar. Lévy Gorvy Gallery, NYC ​ 2016 “Tom Friedman’s A Curse” (paper presentation). [Image Here], Harvard University, Cambridge, MA ​ ​ ​ ​ 2016 “Panel Discussion: Artists and Scholars in Conversation” (moderated by Carrie Lambert-Beatty), Prosthetic Realities, Fake ​ ​ ​ Truths, and True Lies in Colombian Contemporary Art, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard ​ University, Cambridge, MA th 2016 “A Curse: Between Concept and Conception” (keynote address). Magic: Between Embodiment and Ontology. 7 ​ Annual ​ ​ Emerging Scholars Conference, Department of Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University, Montreal, Canada ​ 2015 “Workshop: On Sabotage” (with Silvia Federici, Lise Soskolne/W.A.G.E, Melanie Gilligan, and Marina Vishmidt), WE (not I): ​ Meetings, Talks, and Readings, Artists Space, NYC ​ 2015 “Parafictions and Performance” (discussion with Jeremy Hutchison and Barbara Browning), The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, NYC 2015 ”Appropriated Autobiography” (discussion with Maura Brewer and Marisa Williamson), The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, NYC 2015 “Queens of Welfare/Pawns of Capital: Reframing welfare debates through archives, public discussion, and brunch” (roundtable with Frances Fox Piven, Silvia Federici, Mimi Abromowitz, Premilla Nadesen, and Arlen Austin), Abrons Arts Center. NYC 2014 “FRIDAY SESSION: Emma Sulkowicz, Zoe Ridolfi-Starr, and Aliza Shvarts in Discussion” (roundtable organized by Sondra Perry), Columbia University Art School, NYC 2014 Living Labor: Marxism and Performance Studies Graduate Student Conference (conference co-organized with Joshua ​ ​ ​ Lubin-Levy), Keynote addresses by Fred Moten and Sianne Ngai, Performance Studies, NYU, NYC 2014 “Black Wedding” (artist talk), Object Lessons (instructor: Jarrett Earnest), Bruce High Quality Foundation University, NYC ​ ​ 2014 “Black Capitals: Contracts and Consent” (paper presentation), American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, ​ NYU, NYC 2013 “Witches and Donkeys: The Female Laboring Animal” (paper presentation), Performance Studies International #19: Now and ​ Then: Performance and Technology. Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA ​ th 2013 “Bad Faith Feminism” (panel co-convened panel with Kara Jesella and Amalle Dublon), 12 ​ Annual Cultural Studies ​ ​ Association Conference: Beyond Disciplinarity. Columbia College. Chicago, IL ​ th 2013 “Contracting Consent” (paper presentation), Rethinking Work: 15 ​ Annual Conference of the Marxist Reading Group, ​ ​ University of Florida, Gainesville, FL th 2013 “Plenary Panel: Social Media and Self Narrative” (roundtable), 25 ​ Annual English Graduate Student Conference: The Open: ​ ​ Decoding Exposure. Brooklyn College, NY ​ 2011 “Figuration and Failure” (artist talk), XXXtreme Performance Studies. Bruce High Quality Foundation University, NYC ​ ​ 2010 Guest Commentator (on rapper Kanye West’s “performance art” music video Runaway), MTV.com. ​ ​