Marta Kuzma
Marta Kuzma | |
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| Born | June 21, 1964 (age 60) |
| Education | Barnard College (BA) Middlesex University (MA) |
| Known for | Dean of Yale School of Art |
Marta Kuzma (born June 21, 1964[1]) is a curator, art theorist, and educator. In 2016, she became Dean of the Yale School of Art and is the first woman to serve in that role since the school was founded in 1869.[2][3][4]
Biography
[edit]Marta Kuzman holds a B.A. in Art History and Political Economics from Barnard College and an M.A. in Aesthetics and Art Theory from the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Middlesex University, London.[4]
Academic career
[edit]She was previously the vice chancellor and rector of the Stockholm Royal Institute of Art since 2014.[5] Prior to her tenure at the Royal Institute of Art, Kuzma also served eight years as director of the Office for Contemporary Art Norway. In this role, she curated OCA's contribution to the Venice Biennial with the projects "The Collectors: Elmgreen & Dragset" (2009), "The State of Things" (2011), and "Beware of the Holy Whore: Munch and the Dilemma of Emancipation" (2013).[6] She was also the founding director of the Soros Center for Contemporary Art in Kyiv, Ukraine, the artistic director of the Washington Project for the Arts, in Washington, D.C., and was head of international exhibitions program at International Center of Photography in New York. In 2004, she co-curated Manifesta 5 with Massimiliano Gioni in San Sebastian, Spain and in 2012 and she was a curator for Documenta (13).[7][8][9]
References
[edit]- ^ "VIAF".
- ^ Pogrebin, Robin (February 9, 2016). "Robert Storr Is Stepping Down as Dean of Yale University School of Art". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved March 8, 2017.
- ^ "Marta Kuzma is the First Woman to be Named Dean of Yale School of Art". artforum.com. Retrieved March 8, 2017.
- ^ a b Cummings, Mike (February 9, 2016). "Renowned curator Marta Kuzma named dean of Yale School of Art". YaleNews. Retrieved March 8, 2017.
- ^ Bourriaud, Nicolas (November 2015). "Revisiting the Educational Turn (How I Tried to Renovate an Art School), by Nicolas Bourriaud / ArtReview". artreview.com. Retrieved March 8, 2017.
- ^ "Marta Kuzma". Yale School of Art. Retrieved July 9, 2019.
- ^ "Manifesta 10 Plays Down Concerns About Russia". Retrieved March 8, 2017.
- ^ documenta13. "dOCUMENTA (13) - dOCUMENTA (13)". d13.documenta.de. Archived from the original on March 6, 2015. Retrieved March 8, 2017.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "Manifesta 5. Curators". August 25, 2007. Archived from the original on August 25, 2007. Retrieved March 8, 2017.
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