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Scott A. Sherer Scott A. Sherer Department of Art and Art History, The University of Texas at San Antonio, One UTSA Circle, San Antonio, TX 78249 [email protected]; Office: 210-458-4402; Cell: 210-241-3937; Fax: 210-458-4356 Education Ph.D., 2002, Studies in Discourse and Society, Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Dissertation: The Aesthetics of Cruel Embodiment. Research in art, architectural, and film history, theory, and criticism; cultural studies and comparative literature; gender and sexuality studies. Research focused on the intersections of cultural/political theory with visual and performative representations of embodiment and gender and sexual identity. M.A., 1993, Art History, University of Kentucky, Lexington. Thesis: The Politics of Photography: Garry Winogrand Knows? & Shows? which “Women are Beautiful.” Research in art history, emphasizing feminist perspectives in criticism and the study of artists’ roles in society, museum training, American history and poetry, printmaking and artist’s bookmaking. B.A., 1987, Architecture, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. Thesis project exhibit, 1987. Drawing, design, and painting in group exhibits, 1984-87. Course work in architecture, fine arts, urban studies, social sciences, languages, and literatures. The Architectural Association School of Architecture, London, England, 1986. Course work in architecture, art history, and photography. Languages Spanish, reading, writing, and conversational fluency. French, reading, writing, and conversational fluency. Research Interests Modern and postmodern visual art, performance, literature, and intellectual history; Curatorial practices; Histories of civil rights, sexuality, and gender; Theoretical and lived constructions of space; Historiography and the social and cultural roles of institutions Teaching Experience § Art History Associate Professor, Department of Art and Art History, University of Texas at San Antonio, Fall 2008-present. “Embodiment and Representation,” graduate section, Spring 2013, Spring 2011 “Contemporary Art,” Fall 2012 “Survey of Modern Art,” Summer 2012, Summer 2011 “Seminar in Research Methods and Writing,” graduate section, Fall 2011, 2010, Fall 2009 and Fall 2008. “Cultural Difference and Postmodern Critique,” graduate section, Spring 2010. “Art Gallery and Museum Internship,” range of undergraduate and graduate students, Fall 2012, Summer 2012, Fall 2011, Summer 2011, Spring 2010, Fall 2009, Summer 2009, Spring 2009, Fall 2008. “Primitivism to Globalism,” graduate section, Spring 2009. Assistant Professor, Department of Art and Art History, University of Texas at San Antonio, Fall 2006-Summer 2008. “Critical Theory in the Arts,” graduate section, Spring 2008, Spring 2007. “Gender and Sexuality in the Arts,” Fall 2007. “Art Gallery and Museum Practices,” graduate section, Fall 2007. “Art Gallery and Museum Internship,” undergraduate and graduate sections, Fall 2007. Assistant Professor (tenure track), Division of Art History, School of Art, Kent State University, Fall 2001-Summer 2006 “Late Modern Art since 1940,”one (u/g) combined section, Summer 2006; graduate section, Spring 2006; two undergraduate/graduate (u/g) combined sections, Spring 2006, Fall 2005; one (u/g) combined section, Summer 2005, two (u/g) combined sections, Spring 2005, Fall 2004; undergraduate section Sherer, 2 Kent-Stark, Spring 2004; two (u/g) combined sections, Fall 2003, Spring 2003, Fall 2002; separate u and g sections, Spring 2002; two (u/g) combined sections, Fall 2001. “Critical Issues in Contemporary Art,” graduate seminar, Fall 2005. “Individual Investigation,” individual studies advisor, four graduate students, Spring 2006; five undergraduate students Fall 2005; one graduate student and one undergraduate Spring 2005; one graduate student Fall 2004; one graduate student Summer 2004; three graduate students, Fall 2003; one undergraduate Fall 2002; two undergraduates Spring 2003. “Women’s Studies Senior Project,” advisor, Fall 2005. “Smithson’s Legacies in Theory and Practice,” undergraduate/graduate workshop integrating art history and studio practice, team taught with Don Harvey, Spring 2005. “Film and Photography in Western Art,” undergraduate/graduate combined sections, Spring 2005. “Gender and Sexuality in the Arts,” undergraduate/graduate combined section, Fall 2004 and Fall 2002. “Late Modern Art since 1940,” graduate seminar, Fall 2003. “Critical Theory in Visual Culture,” u/g advanced workshop-seminar, Spring 2003. “Modern and Contemporary Art Workshop, New York City,” collaboration with Professors Isabel Farnsworth and Paul O’Keeffe, Spring 2003. “Honors Project: Critical Theory and Subjectivity,” individual Honors Project advisor, Spring 2003. “Learning from an Exhibition: My Reality, Contemporary Art and the Culture of Japanese Animation,” workshop series in collaboration with Dr. Lisa Safford, Hiram College, and Dr. Kevin Concannon, University of Akron, and staff of Akron Art Museum; Akron Art Museum, Fall 2002. “History of Photography,” u/g combined section, Spring 2002. “Body Art: Postmodernity, Embodiment, and Representation,” u/g combined section, Fall 2001. Instructor, Department of Art, University of Kentucky, Lexington “Modern Art II: Twentieth Century Art,” Summer 1997. “Renaissance Through Modern Art,” Summers 1994, 1995, 1996. § Undergraduate Studies Assistant Professor (tenure track), Division of Art History, School of Art, Kent State University, Fall 2001-2006 “University Orientation,” Fall 2004. § Cultural Studies Visiting Assistant Professor, Critical Theory and Cultural Studies, MFA Program, Maine College of Art, Portland “Philosophies of Embodiment,” Summer 2001. Instructor, Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota “Gay Men and Homophobia in American Culture,” Spring 1996, Fall 2000, Spring 2001. “Sexualities: From Perversity to Diversity,” Spring 1998, Fall 2000. “Reading Culture: Theory and Practice,” Fall 1999. “Discourse and Society I: Reading Culture,” Fall 1995, Spring 1996. “Discourse and Society,” Winter and Spring 1995. Instructor, Honors Division, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota “Sexuality and Cultural Power: Queer Theory and Practice in Everyday Life,” Winter 1996. Research Assistant, “Introduction to Visual Cultures,” Prof. John Archer, University of Minnesota, Summer 1999. Research Assistant, “Reframing Suburbia,” McKnight Faculty Fellowship, Professors John Archer, CSCL, and Katherine Solomonson, Department of Architecture, University of Minnesota, Fall 1997, Winter 1998. Research Assistant, “Enlightenment History of Sexuality,” Graduate School Faculty Research Grant, Professor Gary Thomas, University of Minnesota, Fall 1994. Teaching Assistant, Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota “Cinema and Ideology,” Spring 1994. “The Body and the Politics of Representation,” Winter 1994. “Gay Men and Homophobia in the Modern West,” Fall 1993. Sherer, 3 § English Instructor, Department of English, University of Kentucky, Lexington “Intermediate Writing,” Spring 1997. “Writing II,” Spring 1997. “Writing I,” (two sections), Fall 1996. Curatorial and Arts Programming Experience Director, UTSA Art Gallery and Satellite Space, Department of Art and Art History, UTSA, Fall 2006-present. § Exhibitions 31K Portraits for Peace: Diego Huerta curated by Claudia Zapata, exhibition manager, Satellite Space, Blue Star Complex, San Antonio, September, 2012. Alien Contexts: Mexico and the US, exhibition curator, UTSA Art Gallery, San Antonio, September-November, 2012. New Art/Arte Nuevo: San Antonio 2012, juried exhibition coordinator, UTSA Art Gallery, San Antonio, June- August, 2012. Sky Patterson: Swimming Pool, exhibition curator, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, May-August, 2012. Margins, curated by Larry Graeber, exhibition manager, UTSA Art Gallery, June-August, 2011. XIANG Yaping: The Traditional and the Modern in Chinese Landscape Painting, exhibition curator, UTSA Art Gallery, May 2011. Steve Reynolds: Serial Investigations in Sculpture curated by Catherine Lee, exhibition manager, UTSA Art Gallery, January-February, 2011. Breakthrough! 20 Years After German Unification: Critical Perspectives of Berlin Artists, exhibition manager, UTSA Art Gallery, San Antonio, October-November 2010. Today’s China: Images Speak to the World, exhibition manager, UTSA Art Gallery, San Antonio, September- October, 2010. New Art/Arte Nuevo: San Antonio 2010, juried exhibition coordinator, UTSA Art Gallery, San Antonio, June- August, 2010. The Tradition of Trabajo Rústico: Fantasies in Cement, exhibition co-curator with Patsy Pittman Light and Kent Rush, Southwest School of Art & Craft, San Antonio, May 2010. Globalization and War—The Aftermath: Works by Malaquias Montoya, exhibition manager, UTSA Art Gallery, San Antonio, March-April, 2010 Intense Concentration, exhibition curator, UTSA Art Gallery, San Antonio, January-February, 2010. Far Places Close: Photographic Essays of South Asia, exhibition curator, UTSA Art Gallery, San Antonio, September-October, 2009. Building Vernacular Imaginations: Paho Mann and Libby Rowe, exhibition curator, Satellite Space, Blue Star Complex, San Antonio, September 2009. Benito Huerta: Shock & Awe, exhibition curator, UTSA Art Gallery, San Antonio, July-August, 2009. Apparatus, exhibition curator, Satellite Space, Blue Star Complex, March 2009. The Culture Series, exhibition curator, in association with Marcia Gygli King: Forty Years, a collaboration
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