Christina Linden [email protected] EDUCATION Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard) Master of Arts in Curatorial Studies and Art in Contemporary Culture 2009 Thesis title: Quasi-Solid: The Rematerialization of the Art Object Thesis advisors: Johanna Burton, Franklin Sirmans New York University Bachelor of Arts in Art History, magna cum laude 2001 Minor in Studio Arts WORK EXPERIENCE Visiting Faculty, Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA, 08/2017–present Associate Curator of Painting & Sculpture, Oakland Museum of California Oakland, CA, 12/2013–07/2017 Visiting Faculty, San Francisco Art Institute San Francisco, CA 08/2013–05/2017 Independent Curator and Writer Oakland, CA 07/2010–2013 New Stanford Hospital Art Program Project Manager, Gregoire Associates Palo Alto, CA, 8/2012–12/2013 Guest Curator, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art & Kadist Art Foundation “Prospectus: Ben Kinmont” San Francisco 1/2012–5/2013 Assistant Director, Mildred’s Lane artists’ residence, pedagogical program, lecture and project series Beach Lake, Pennsylvania, 5/2012–8/2012 Exhibition and Public Programming Curator, Kadist Art Foundation “Living As Form (The Nomadic Version)” San Francisco, California, 3/2012–5/2012 Book Editor, Researcher, and Project Manager, One-Hundred Years of Kingsford Capital Point Richmond, California, 8/2011–12/2011 Advisor to MFA Candidates, Alumni Feature Writer, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA 94107 1/2011–2013 Curatorial Fellow, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504 08/2009–07/2010 Curatorial Intern for Anne Ellegood, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Washington, DC 20013 6–8/2008 Administration & Participant, Summer Emerging Curators Program, The Luggage Store Gallery Curated exhibition “Come Across” 7/13–8/04/07 San Francisco, CA 94103 3–8/2007 Assistant Gallery Director, Pierogi Leipzig Leipzig, Germany 3/2006–3/2007 Asst. to Visual Arts Department, Preparator, and Event Staff, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts San Francisco, CA 94103 3/2005–3/2006, 3/2007–8/2007 Artistic Director, Pun Pun Sustainable Living Project Chaing Mai 50150 Thailand 9/2003–3/2004 Gallery Office Manager, galerie magnusmüller Berlin, Germany 3/2002–9/2003 Gallery Assistant, Pierogi Brooklyn Brooklyn, NY 11211 2/2001–3/2002 CURATED PROJECTS 2017 “Of Dogs and Other People: The Art of Roy De Forest”, (with guest curator Susan Landauer), Oakland Museum of California, 4/2017–8/2017 + catalog 2017 “Over the Top: Math Bass & The Imperial Court SF” exhibition, Oakland Museum of California, 4/2017–8/2017 2016 “Notes From Camp: AKA Transdimensional Ghost Town Discoteque” commissioned installation by Torreya Cummings, Oakland Museum of California, opened 06/2016 2016 “Glimmer” commissioned permanent outdoor sculpture by Linda Fleming, Oakland Museum of California, installed 04/2016 2015 “UNEARTHED: Found + Made” exhibition (with Jedediah Caesar and the California Suiseki Society), Oakland Museum of California, 12/2015–4/2016 2015 “First Person Once Removed” exhibition, Pro Arts, Oakland, CA 7/2015–8/2015 2015 “Michelle Dizon: Drifting Islands” exhibition, Oakland Museum of California, 4/2015–11/2015 2015 “Marion Gray: Within the Light” exhibition, Oakland Museum of California, 2/2015–6/2015 2014 “but what you want if far away” dance performance choreographed by Phoebe Osborne, Oakland Museum of California, 11/7/2014 2014 “Judy Chicago: A Butterfly for Oakland” exhibition, Oakland Museum of California, 04/2014–11/2014 2014 “Wages for Facebook” presentation, workshop and conversation with artist and curator Laurel Ptak, Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco, 03/19 and 03/22/2014 2013 “The Indigo & the Ecstatic: A Motion to the Future” with artist Desirée Holman, farewell processional for SFMOMA building closing, San Francisco 6/2/2013 2013 “Mere Top” exhibition and screening at Royal NoneSuch Gallery, Oakland, CA 3/2013–4/2013 2012 New Stanford Hospital Art Program Project Manager, Gregoire & Associates, Palo Alto, CA 2012 “Front Tier, Back Water” video screening at Fly or Flow / Temporäre Autonome Zone, Galerie Lisa Ruyter, Vienna, Austria 10/24/2012 2012 “Prospectus: San Francisco” Ben Kinmont solo exhibition, SFMOMA Koret Visitor Education Center and Kadist Art Foundation San Francisco 9/2012– 5/2013 2012 Assistant Director for summer sessions, “Mildred’s Lane” artists’ residence, pedagogical program, lecture and project series, Pennsylvania, 5/2012–8/2012 2012 “Living As Form (The Nomadic Version),” exhibition and public programming, Kadist Art Foundation San Francisco 3/2012–5/2012 2012 “I’m Dying Up Here” evening of photography, stand up comedy, and discussion with Tammy Rae Carland, Kadist Art Foundation San Francisco, 5/23/2012 2011 “In the Common Corner of Four Rooms” Statler Waldorf Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 10/28–12/10/2011 2011 “SHOUT!” for Swords to Plowshares at Hilliard Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 5/6–6/30/2011 2011 Igor Grubic screening, conversation with Anne Walsh, Kadist Art Foundation San Francisco, 4/13/2011 2010 “About the Object” Berrie Center for Performing and Visual Arts, Ramapo College, NJ 11/03–12/08/2010 + catalog 2010 “Philippe Parreno” Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (curatorial assistant) 06/26–09/26/2010 + catalog 2010 “Jacob Robichaux” Dorsch Gallery, Miami Florida 05/07–06/05/2010 2010 “At What Moment Does Limestone Become Marble (An Evening Expedition to Kaaterskill Falls)” with Ilana Halperin, CCS Bard Beyond the White Cube series 4/3/2010 2009 “About the Object” Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, 4/19–5/24/2009 2009 “Hairpin Magic Wand” SculptureCenter, L.I.C., NY “In Practice” project with Amy Patton 1/11–3/22/09 2008 “six-years.com” (website with weekly rotating artist contributions) 10/2008–2/2010 2008 “Six-years Release” (performance event) PS122 Gallery, NY 11/21/2008 2008 “Christine Catsifas” White Columns Bulletin Board, CCS Bard 9/8–9/28/2008 2008 “Lisi Raskin: Mobile Observation (Transmitting and Receiving) Station” Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College 4/15–9/7/2008 + catalogue 2008 “Second Thoughts” Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College 3/16–5/25/2008 2008 “Soundtracks” (EAI collection video program) Park Avenue Armory NY 2/21–2/25/2008 2007 “Come Across” The Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA 7/13–7/28/2007 2006 “Crossings” exhibition, Youthbridge Initiative, Berlin 6/2006 PUBLISHED WRITING 2016 SFAQ (San Francisco Arts Quarterly), “Marion Gray” (column) November 2016. 2015 Art in America June 22, 2015 “The Way Things Go, San Francisco, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts” (exhibition review) 2014 Modern Painters “Introducing Josh Faught: Tie a Knot in It and Hang On” March 2014. 2013 Modern Painters “Transmissions” and “In Brief: San Francisco” November 2013. 2013 Daily Serving “The Best Things in Museums Are the Windows, part 2: Observations,” on the work of Harrell Fletcher for the Exploratorium, SF 2013 “Fissile Capabilities” introductory essay for book Expert Witness on the work of Daniel Small, Colpa Press 2012 “To the Other Side (On a Fact Finding Mission, I Suppose?)” essay on Chitra Ganesh for “Flickering Myths” exhibition catalogue Gallery Wendi Norris 2012 Forward for Space, Time and Architecture: Lyle/Antonucci, San Francisco: Colpa Press 2012 “Backdrop” Art Practical 4.3 / Pluripotency 2012 “Survey as Form” Art Practical 3.16 / Nomadic Tendencies 2011 “Holding Up the Sign” Art Practical 3.6 / Aliens vs. Venetians 2011 “OPENeducation; Berkeley Art Museum” Art Practical 3.1 / Shotgun! 2011 “Set for an Altered State; Lauren Marsden” Art Practical 3.1 / Shotgun! 2011 “Forward Looking: (Apocalypse Now or Later)” Fillip magazine Issue No. 15, Fall 2011 2011 “Drift at Mildred’s Lane” Art Practical 2.22 / Summer Reading 2011 “Social Works” interview with Shannon Jackson, Art Practical 2.15 / Performance: The Body Politic 2011 “A Short List: On Social Practice” Paletten No. 1 2011 “A Variation on the ‘Powers of Ten’ Futurefarmers at BAM MATRIX” Art Practical 2.12 / Legibility 2010 “Buffer Zone“ in Deep Cycle, edited by Maximilian Goldfarb 2010 “Mary Walling Blackburn, Southern Exposure” …mightbegood, Issue #154 Oct. 1, 2010 2010 Interview with Susan Miller of New Langton Arts, Art Spaces Archive Project 2010 Interview with Time & Space Ltd Hudson NY, Art Spaces Archive Project 2010 Interviews with the Guerilla Art Action Group, Art Spaces Archive Project 2010 “After That You're Sliding in Oil” in bitter, black thoughts, Blaffer Gallery, Art Museum of the University of Houston 2009 “theanyspacewhatever” Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory, Vol. 19, Issue 3, Nov. 2009 2009 “Underwater Basket Weaving” PROVENCE magazine, Issue R, Fall 2009 2009 “Brody Condon ‘Without Sun’ at Machine Project” ART LIES Fall 2009 2009 “Colby Bird: CRG Gallery” ART LIES Issue 62, Summer 2009 2009 “Winkie” (review of book by Clifford Chase) ART LIES Issue 62, Summer 2009 2009 “an (my)(your)(our) ideal(?) exhibition: an announcement” in SESSIONS: CON VERSE SENSATIONS ed. Katerina Llanes 2008 “Balloons can explode or they can just Wither” Art Voices, December 2008 2008 “Sharon Engelstein: Sunday” ART LIES Issue 59, Fall 2008 2008 “For Inclusion, Activation, Exploitation” Showroom 10: Q publication on the occasion of exhibition at Q: Hammerstrasse 133, Basel, Switzerland, June 2008 TEACHING 2017 Carnegie Mellon University, instructor: Modern Visual Culture (undergraduate seminar on the history of critical theory) 2017 San Francisco Art Institute, instructor: Why Exhibitions Matter (graduate seminar on exhibition