ROBERT THOMAS COZZOLINO [email protected] | 612-870-3130 EDUCATION 2006 Ph.D University of Wisconsin-Madison Dissertation: “Every picture should be a prayer: the art of Ivan Albright.” 2000 MA Art History, University of Wisconsin-Madison 1994 BA History of Art and Architecture, University of Illinois at Chicago CURRENT PROJECTS Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art (curator, catalogue author, 2021) Projects in development on Milton Avery, Gregory Gillespie and Roger Brown. EMPLOYMENT 2016-present Patrick and Aimee Butler Curator of Paintings, Minneapolis Institute of Art 2004-2016 Senior Curator and Evelyn and Will Kaplan Curator of Modern Art, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia (PAFA). Hired as Assistant Curator in September 2004; Associate Curator, March 2006; Curator of Modern Art, December 2007; Senior Curator, July 2011; Evelyn and Will Kaplan Curator of Modern Art, November 2014. Left February 2016. Oversaw department and exhibition budgets ranging from $1.5 million to $50,000; supervise 4-6 staff members. EXHIBITIONS CURATED AT MIA 2018-19: New to Mia: Art from Chicago; Without Boundaries: Fiber Sculpture and Paintings by Women with Nicole LaBouff); Kunin Collection Focus: Philadelphia Modernism; Kunin Collection Focus: Bob Thompson; New to Mia: Paintings of all shapes and sizes 2017-18: George Morrison in Focus (with Jill Ahlberg Yohe) 2016-17: American Modernism: Selections from the Kunin Collection (ongoing multi-part series); gradual rehang of modern and American paintings galleries. EXHIBITIONS CURATED AT PAFA 2017: Surrealism and Subversion: The Art of Honoré Sharrer (with Melissa Wolfe). 2016-17: World War I and American Art (with Anne Knutson and David Lubin). 2015-16: Seachange: Abstraction in Norman Lewis’s Time; Collection Focus: Dot-Dash-Dissolve. 2015: Rock, Paper, Scissors: Drawn from the JoAnn Gonzalez Hickey Collection (with PAFA students); Tiny but Mighty (with Jodi Throckmorton); Collection Focus: Bartlett, Ryman, Tuttle (with Jodi Throckmorton). 2014-15: Peter Blume: Nature and Metamorphosis; David Lynch: The Unified Field. 2014: Eldzier Cortor: Theme and Variations; Summer Shuffle: Contemporary Art @ PAFA Remixed; In With the New! Recent Gifts on Paper. 2013: Hidden Treasures Unveiled: Watercolors (with Anna O. Marley). 2012-13: The Female Gaze: Women Artists Making their World; Samuel F. B. Morse’s The Galleries of the Louvre: A New Look (with Anna O. Marley). 2012: Of, To, and From Ray Yoshida; PAFA and Dr. Barnes; The Modernist City; After Tanner: African-American Artists Since 1940. Cozzolino, Robert Thomas 2 2011: Abstract Expressionism and its Discontents; Pictures of the Body; Anatomy/Academy (with Anna O. Marley and Julien Robson); Oliver Grimley: Menagerie; "How 'ya gonna keep 'em down on the farm after they've seen Paree?". 2010: Narcissus in the Studio: Artist Portraits and Self-Portraits; Jasper Johns: Flag; American Art Starts Here: PAFA Refreshed and Reloaded (with Anna O. Marley); Summer Surprises (with Julien Robson); Push, Press, and Pull: Prints Since 1960 (with Julien Robson). 2009: Elizabeth Osborne: The Color of Light; Communion with Nature: Paintings by William Gannotta (memorial exhibition). 2008-09: George Tooker: A Retrospective (with Marshall Price). 2008: Peter Saul: A Retrospective (venue curator); Jacob Lawrence’s Hiroshima; Reverberations: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Bank of America Collection; Spot Check: Academy Contemporary; Harnett, Peto, and their Accomplices: Trompe l’oeil Paintings from the Collection. 2007: This Place is Ours! Recent Acquisitions at the Pennsylvania Academy. 2006: Villa America: American Moderns 1900-1950 (venue curator); Art in Chicago: Resisting Regionalism, Transforming Modernism. 2005: Light, Line and Color: American Works on Paper 1765-2005; Vik Muniz: Remastered. 2003-2004 Writer and researcher, Princeton University Art Museum Researcher for West to Wesselmann: American Drawings and Watercolors in the Princeton University Art Museum and contributed to catalogue. 2001-2003 Guest Curator, Elvehjem Museum of Art (now Chazen Museum of Art), University of Wisconsin-Madison. Curated: With Friends: Six Magic Realists 1940-65 (2005); Dudley Huppler: Drawings (2002). 1998-2001 Teaching Assistant, Art History, University of Wisconsin-Madison Taught Ancient to Medieval and Renaissance to Modern surveys (seven consecutive semesters). Guest lecturer for many undergraduate and graduate courses. 1998-2000 Curatorial Assistant, Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin Researcher for Wildeworld: The Art of John Wilde (1999-2000) and Makers and Users: American Decorative Arts, 1630-1810, from the Chipstone Collection (1999). 1997-2004 Arts Writer, Isthmus Publishing Co., Madison, Wisconsin Wrote over eighty articles on the arts for alternative weekly newspaper. 1993-1997 Curatorial Assistant, Art Institute of Chicago Researcher for Ivan Albright (1997), Claude Monet: 1840-1926 (1995), and Bruce Goff: Architecture for the Continuous Present (1995). Curated works on paper and working methods sections of Ivan Albright retrospective (1997). 1993-1997 Assistant Archivist, Ryerson and Burnham Archives, Art Institute of Chicago Curated: Bruce Goff: Selections from the Archive (1995); Selections from the Ivan Albright Archives: 1897-1983 (1997); and Every Picture Should Be A Prayer: The Notebooks of Ivan Albright (1997). Cozzolino, Robert Thomas 3 PUBLICATIONS In progress: “Wait – Is it Ok to see this?” Curatorial intervention for Archives of American Art Journal (Fall, 2019). In progress: Tom Uttech Early Work (New York: Phil Alexandre Gallery, 2019). In progress: Dyani White Hawk (Reno: University of Nevada Art Museum, 2019). In progress: “Processional,” in Laura Joseph, ed. Harriet Bart: Abracadabra and Other Forms of Protection (Minneapolis: Weisman Art Museum and the University of Minnesota Press, 2020). At press: Essays on Benny Andrews, Barnett Newman, Jim Nutt, Faith Ringgold, Peter Saul, May Stevens, and William Weege. Melissa Ho, ed. Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965 to 1975 (Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2019). “George Tooker, Highway (1953),” in Katherine Bourguignon and Peter John Brownlee, ed. Handbook of the Collection (Chicago: Terra Foundation for American Art, 2018). Art in Chicago: A History from the Fire to Now (co-editor with Maggie Taft and contributor; University of Chicago Press, 2018). “Seeding the Ground: Chicago Encounters Surrealism,” in Janine Mileaf, ed. A Home for Surrealism (The Arts Club of Chicago, 2018). “The Sorceress in the Center of Everything,” in Dan Nadel, ed. Gertrude Abercrombie (New York: Karma, 2018). “A Terrifying and Ecstatic Reality,” Jane Lund: My Life’s Work So Far (Impress: 2018). Fred Stonehouse (Milwaukee: Tory Folliard Gallery, 2018). “’Certainly not casting stones’: Honoré Sharrer’s Religious Imagery,” in Surrealism and Subversion: The Art of Honoré Sharrer (Yale University Press, 2017). World War I and American Art (PAFA and Princeton University Press, 2016). Ed./co- author. Guest editor for special section of of Panorama 2, 2 (Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art, Fall, 2016). http://journalpanorama.org/issues/fall-2016-2-2/ “Myself before the war: John Wilde’s Early Work,” in John Wilde, the Early Work (Milwaukee, Tory Folliard Gallery, 2016). “Ivan Albright, letter to Earle Ludgin,” in Mary Savig, ed. The Art of Handwriting (Archives of American Art and Princeton Architectural Press, 2016). Cozzolino, Robert Thomas 4 “Surrealism, Wisconsin Style,” in Bats, Babes and Broccoli: Wisconsin Magic Realists (Mongerson Gallery, 2016). “Guardian,” in Pat Traub, New Work (New York, Gallery Henoch, 2016). “Magic Realism and Modernism,” in Thomas Fransioli (New York: Hirschl & Adler Galleries, 2015). “Parallel Worlds,” in Far Out Females: Mid-Century Chicago Surrealism (Mongerson Gallery, 2015). “Horace Pippin, Sunday Morning Breakfast (1943),” in Twentieth Century African-American Art from the Merrill C. Berman Collections (New York: Alexandre Gallery, 2015). Rosalyn Drexler: Vulgar Lives (New York: Garth Greenan Gallery, 2015). Peter Blume: Nature and Metamorphosis (PAFA/University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014). Ed./co-author. David Lynch: The Unified Field (PAFA/University of California Press, 2014). “Inner Cosmos,” in Sylvia Fein: Surreal Nature (Oakland: Krowswork Gallery, 2014). “Christina Ramberg,” in Dan Nadel, ed. What Nerve! Alternative Figures in American Art from 1960 to the Present (Museum of Art/RISD, 2014). “The Haunted Woods,” in Tom Uttech: New Paintings (Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI, 2014). “Bernard Perlin and the State of Modern Painting at Mid-Century.” Record of the Princeton University Art Museum (2012-13), 58-73. “Medieval/Modern: Gothic Impulses in American Modernism,” in Joyce Robinson, ed. A Gift from the Heart: The James and Barbara Palmer Collection (State College, PA: Palmer Museum of Art, 2013). “PAFA and Dr. Barnes: Modernism in Philadelphia.” American Art 27, 3 (Fall 2013): 20-26. “EWWWWWW! AAAHHHH! AAWOOOOOOO! (Ray Yoshida’s Specimens),” in Karen Patterson, ed. Ray Yoshida: The Open Eye (John Michael Kohler Art Center, 2013). “Questions for Karl Wirsum,” in Karl Wirsum (New York: Derek Eller Gallery, 2013). Astrid Bowlby: Everything (University of Southern Maine Art Galleries, 2013). Subconscious Eye: John A. Kurtz, Paul Lamantia, and Bruce Thorn (Chicago: Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, 2013). Cozzolino, Robert Thomas 5 The Female Gaze: Women Artists Making their World (PAFA/Hudson