ALEX BACON [email protected] EDUCATION 2020 [anticipated] PhD, Art & Archaeology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ − Dissertation: “ ‘Frank Stella and a Crisis of Nothingness’: The Emergence of Object Art in America, 1958-1967” 2009 MA, Art & Archaeology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 2007 BA, with Highest Honors, History of Art, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI − Thesis: “Punks, Skinheads, and Dandies: Matrices of Desire in Gilbert & George” CURRENT ACTIVITIES 2017 Curatorial Associate, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ − Public art commissions around campus. Curator of programming at Bainbridge House, a contemporary art space operated under the aegis of the museum. 2017 Contributing Writer, Artforum.com − Critic’s Picks and 500 Word statements by artists including Carmen Herrera and Doug Wheeler 2012 Contributing Writer, The Brooklyn Rail − Numerous long form artist interviews for the Brooklyn Rail, including Francesco Clemente, James Turrell, and Jacob Kassay. Also reviews and feature articles. 2012 Ad Reinhardt Catalogue Raisonné Project − Ad Reinhardt Foundation. First volume, on black paintings from the 1960s, anticipated 2019. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (PAST) 2017 Nominating Committee, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, Artist Awards 2015-17 Nominating Committee, Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grant 2014 Visiting Critic, AKV/St Joost Academy, Den Bosch, The Netherlands 2014-15 Visiting Critic, Residency Unlimited, Brooklyn, NY 2014 Judge, Wynn Newhouse Awards 2013 Writer-in-Residence, The Miami Rail 2013 Co-founder, with Harrison Tenzer, Curatorial Projects, The Brooklyn Rail 2013 Visiting Critic, Graduate Department of Painting, Rhode Island School of Design 2008 Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Intern, Department of Painting & Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, New York 2007 Curatorial Intern, Princeton University Art Museum EDITED VOLUMES Editor, Solange Pessoa (New York and Sao Paulo: Circle Books and Editora Cobogo, 2020). Editor, with Barbara Rose, Special Ad Reinhardt Centennial Issue, The Brooklyn Rail (December 2013-January 2014). Editor, with Hal Foster, Richard Hamilton (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2010). SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (BOOKS, EXHIBITION CATALOGUES, AND ACADEMIC JOURNALS) “The Dwan 10 Exhibition,” Ad Reinhardt: Art is Art and Everything Else is Everything Else (Madrid: Fundación Juan March, forthcoming 2020). “Landscape of Objects: Reflections on Jordan Nassar’s The Sea Beneath Our Eyes,” Jordan Nassar: The Sea Beneath Our Eyes (Tel Aviv: Center for Contemporary Art, forthcoming 2020). “The Black Paintings,” Ad Reinhardt (New York: David Zwirner Gallery, forthcoming 2020). “Image and Surface: Joe Zucker’s Painterly Process,” Joe Zucker (London: Thames & Hudson, 2019). Walter Darby Bannard: 1959-1962 (Miami: Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, 2019). “Interview,” In Marina Adams. (New York: Salon 94, 2019). Black Hole. Art and Materiality from Informal to Invisible (Bergamo: GAMeC, 2018). “Ayan Farah’s Alchemical Research,” Catalog #19 (Eberdingen-Nussdorf: KUNSTWERK Sammlung Klein, 2018). “American Art, Made In Germany: Gary Kuehn, 1967-1969,” Gary Kuehn: Il diletto del praticante (Bergamo and Milan: GAMeC and Mousse Publishing, 2018). “The Ethics of Martin Barré,” Martin Barré (New York: Matthew Marks Gallery, 2018). “Ted Stamm: Wooster Paintings,” Ted Stamm (New York: Lisson Gallery, 2018). “Transmissions,” Contingencies: Arte Povera and After (New York: Luxembourg & Dayan, 2017). “James Bishop,” “Francesco Clemente,” and “James Turrell,” in Jarrett Earnest and Lucas Zwirner, eds. Tell Me Something Good: Artist Interviews from the Brooklyn Rail (New York: David Zwirner Books, 2017). “Stanley Whitney,” Lisson: 50 Years (London: Lisson Gallery, 2017). “Interview,” Mary Corse (New York: Inventory Press, 2017). “Michael Steiner,” Serielle Formationen: Frankfurt 1967 (Berlin: Daimler Art Collection, Berlin 2017). “Peter Joseph: Perception Condensed,” Peter Joseph (New York: Lisson Gallery, 2017). “Niele Toroni’s Extendibility,” Niele Toroni (New York: Swiss Institute, 2017). Michael Staniak (St Louis: Contemporary Art Museum, St Louis, 2017). “Optical Overspray,” Roy Colmer (New York: Lisson Gallery, 2017). “Rodolfo Aricò and the Architectonics of Perception,” Rodolfo Aricò (London: Luxembourg & Dayan, 2016). “Stanley Whitney, Call-and-Response,” Stanley Whitney: Radical Times (London: Lisson Gallery, 2016). “Al Held’s Cognitive Abstraction,” Al Held: Black and White Paintings (New York: Cheim & Read, 2016). “Erik Lindman: Blanks,” Erik Lindman: Blanks (Paris: Almine Rech Gallery, 2015). “Landon Metz and the Legacy of Color Field Painting,” Landon Metz (Milan: Mousse Publishing, 2015). “A Note on Simon Hantaï vis-à-vis Paul Cézanne,” Simon Hantaï: Blancs (New York: Paul Kasmin Gallery, 2015). “ ‘More than two dimensions but short of three’: Frank Stella’s Picture Building, 1967 to the Present,” Frank Stella: Shape as Form (New York: Paul Kasmin Gallery, 2015). “Josiah McElheny’s Visionary Modernism,” Josiah McElheny Paintings (New York: Andrea Rosen Gallery, 2015). “Richard Pousette-Dart’s Luminous Geometry,” Richard Pousette-Dart (New York: Pace Gallery, 2014). “The Ether Around Us,” Jean-Baptiste Bernadet: Studies for Sunsets (New York: Karma, 2014). “Industrial Aesthetics: Zak Kitnick’s Steel Shelving Sculptures,” Zak Kitnick (Shapco, MN: Wusthof Press in collaboration with Clifton Benevento and Ribordy Contemporary, 2014). “Francis Alÿs: Green Line (Sometimes Doing...),” in Kelly Baum, ed. Nobody’s Property: Art, Land, Space, 2000-2010 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010). “Punks, Skinheads, and Dandies: Matrices of Desire in Gilbert & George,” in Henry Rogers, ed. The Art of Queering in Art (Birmingham, U.K.: ARTicle Press, 2007). SELECTED ARTICLES “Avery Singer,” KALEIDOSCOPE #35 (fall/winter 2019/20). “Christodoulos Panayiotou on Emma Kunz: Interview.” Artforum.com. April 2019. “In Conversation with Robert Grosvenor.” The Brooklyn Rail. March 2019. “Critics’ Pick: K.r.m. Mooney.” Artforum.com. January 2019. “Keith Sonnier: Interview.” Artforum.com. July 2018. “Book Review: Almost Nothing: Observations on Precarious Practices in Contemporary Art.” caa.reviews. May 2018. “Rita McBride, 500 Words.” Artforum.com. February 2018. “Review: Douglas Huebler: Works from the 1960s.” Art in America. January 2018. “Agenda New York: Lewis Stein at Essex Street.” Mousse. December 2017-January 2018. “Doug Wheeler, 500 Words.” Artforum.com. May 2017. “Critics’ Pick: David Novros.” Artforum.com. May 2017. “Carmen Herrera, 500 Words.” Artforum.com. October 2016. “Surface, Image, Reception: Painting in a Digital Age.” Rhizome. May 2016. “In Conversation with Larry Bell.” The Brooklyn Rail. March 2016. “In Conversation with Mary Heilmann and David Reed.” The Brooklyn Rail. July 2015. “Elaine Cameron-Weir: In Conversation with Alex Bacon.” SFAQ. June 2015. Interviewed by Jarrett Earnest, “Who’s Afraid of the New Abstraction?” SFAQ. August 2014. “Think Harder: An exchange between David Ostrowski and Alex Bacon.” The Brooklyn Rail. June 2014. “In Conversation with Jacob Kassay.” The Brooklyn Rail. December 2013. “In Conversation with James Turrell.” The Brooklyn Rail. September 2013. “In Conversation with Francesco Clemente.” The Brooklyn Rail. May 2013. “The Diagnostic Essay,” a response to Irving Sandler’s questionnaire “Art Criticism Today.” The Brooklyn Rail. December 2012. LECTURES “Painting’s Minor Present.” Conference Presentation. Painting Politics. Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki: Auckland, New Zealand. July 27, 2019. Invited lecture in conjunction with Walter Darby Bannard: 1959-1962. Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami. Miami, FL. May 10, 2018. “The Review Panel.” Panelist. Brooklyn Public Library. Brooklyn, NY. February 6, 2018. Invited lecture in conjunction with Hanne Darboven: Cultural History, 1880-1983. Dia Art Foundation: New York, NY. June 24, 2017. “History and Uses of Materials.” Invited lecture. Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki: Auckland, New Zealand. May 3, 2017. Organizer and moderator. “Material Concerns in Current Practices.” Three part panel series, hosted by the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation: New York, NY. February-April, 2017. Panel discussion with Norman Rosenthal and Landon Metz. Moderator. Paul Kasmin Gallery. New York, NY. March 29, 2016. “Brushes.” Panelist. New Museum. New York, NY. September 3, 2015. “Landon Metz and the Legacy of Color Field Painting.” Conference presentation. Natural Disasters, Free Speech, and the Death of Painting. Contemporary Art Museum, St Louis. April 11, 2015. “A Panel on Painting.” Panelist. Hunter College, New York, NY. March 25, 2015. Moderator of a panel related to the exhibition, 173 E 94th St. / Chaussée de Waterloo 550. Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY. December 10, 2014. “Do You Follow? Art in Circulation.” Panelist. Rhizome and the Institute of Contemporary Art, London. October 15, 2014. “Robert Irwin’s Theory of Painting.” Conference presentation. Hidden Forces?—Painting in the ’60s and ’70s. Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main. June 14, 2013. “ ‘Pure Plastic Spirit’: Optical Abstraction and Giacomo Balla’s Iridescent Interpenetrations.” Invited Lecture, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI. May 22, 2013. “Robert Irwin’s Theory of Painting.” Conference presentation. A Symposium on the History of Art Presented by The Frick Collection and the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University. Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, New York, NY. April 20, 2012. “The Politics of Surface: