EDUCATION
Courtauld Institute of Art
2007–2008:
MA, History of Art
Advisor: Mignon Nixon
Dissertation: Glenn Ligon Revisits Warhol: Presence and Absence in Painting, Archive and Video
University of Chicago
2002–2005:
BA, Art History
Advisor: Darby English
Thesis: Andy Warhol’s Portraits: Instant Celebrity Study Abroad: Paris, France, 2003
AWARDS
2008: Distinction, MA, Courtauld Institute of Art, London
2007: Peter Jay Sharpe Foundation Scholar, Courtauld Institute of Art, London
2004: Art History Travel Grant, Andy Warhol Museum, University of Chicago
CURATORIAL WORK EXPERIENCE
2022: Chief Curator, Andy Warhol Museum
2017: Milton Fine Curator of Art, Andy Warhol Museum
2016: Associate Curator, Andy Warhol Museum
2014: Assistant Curator, Andy Warhol Museum
2016: Participating Curator, Gagosian Gallery & Museo Del Novecento, Milan
2013: Programs Associate, Director’s Office, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
2009: Assistant to Deputy Director/Chief Curator, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
2009: Interpretative Guide Fellow, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
EXHIBITIONS
2022: Andy Warhol’s Social Network: Interview, Television, Portraits
2022: Marisol and Warhol Take New York, Pérez Art Museum, Miami
2021: Marisol and Warhol Take New York, Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh
2019: Kim Gordon: Lo-Fi Glamour
2018: Devan Shimoyama: Cry, Baby
2017: Adman: Warhol Before Pop
2017: Andy Warhol: Sixty Last Suppers, Gagosian Gallery, Novecento Museum, Milan
2017: Andy Warhol Pop Art Icon, La Moneda Cultural Center, Santiago, Chile
2017: Firelei Báez: Bloodlines
2016: Andy Warhol: My Perfect Body
2016: Michael Chow: Voice for My Father
2015: Pearlstein, Warhol, Cantor: From Pittsburgh to New York
2015: Andy Warhol / Ai Weiwei
2014: Chuck Connelly: My America
2014: Keeping It Green, Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Group Exhibition, IUP
2014: Screen Memories, Point Park University
TEACHING
2018: Carnegie Mellon School of Art, Visiting Scholar; Taught Critical Studies and MFA Thesis Seminar Part I; Served as Visiting Critic for MFA studio reviews
2017: Carnegie Mellon, School of Art, Visiting Scholar, MFA Thesis Seminar Part II; Guest critic for the 2017 final MFA thesis reviews
2006–2005: Teaching Assistant, France, Gap, Les Hautes-Alpes, English curriculum for elementary students
WRITING
Edited Catalogues
2021: Marisol and Warhol Take New York, Andy Warhol Museum
2018: Devan Shimoyama: Cry, Baby, Andy Warhol Museum
2016: Andy Warhol My Perfect Body, Andy Warhol Museum
Essays
2021: “Marisol and Warhol an Influential Friendship.” In Marisol and Warhol Take New York. exh. cat. (Pittsburgh: Andy Warhol Museum, 2021), 14-23.
2019: “The Identity Trap: Nydia Blas, Lydia Panas, Eva O’Leary, and Brendan George Ko.”
In Radial Survey, exh. cat. (Pittsburgh: Silver Eye Center for Photography, 2019).2019: “If these Bodies Could Talk.” In Kim Gordon: Lo-Fi Glamour, exhibition brochure.
(Pittsburgh: Andy Warhol Museum, 2019).2018: “Exploring the ‘Self’ in Self-Portraiture.” In Devan Shimoyama: Cry, Baby, exh. cat (Pittsburgh: Andy Warhol Museum, 2018), 10-19.
2018: “Warhol’s Confession: Love, Faith AIDS.” In Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again, exh. cat. (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 2018), 84-94.
2018: “Love on the Margins: Making a Case for Jon Gould and Andy Warhol.”
In Contact Warhol: Photography Without End, exh. cat. (Stanford: Cantor Center for the Arts, Boston: MIT Press, 2018), 156-167.2018: “Andy Warhol: From the Polaroid and Back and Again,” Gagosian Quarterly, (Winter 2018), 96-104.
2017: “Andy Warhol’s Sixty Last Suppers,” Gagosian Quarterly, (Summer 2017), 80-91. 2016:
2016: “Warhol’s Beauty Problems.” In Andy Warhol: My Perfect Body, exh. cat. (Pittsburgh: Andy Warhol Museum, 2016), 8-16.
2015: “The Masked Figure: New Work by Philip Pearlstein.” In Pearlstein, Warhol, Cantor: From Pittsburgh to New York, exh. cat. (Pittsburgh: Andy Warhol Museum, 2015), 54-56.
2014: “Chuck Connelly: My America.” In Pittsburgh Biennial, exh. cat. (Pittsburgh: The Andy Warhol Museum and Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, 2014).
Reviews
2011: “Glenn Ligon. New York, Los Angeles, & Fort Worth,” The Burlington Magazine, (July 2011), 153.
SPEAKING
2022: The Andy Warhol Diaries, documentary series, Netflix
2021: Curator’s Insights: with Franklin Sirmans on Jean-Michel Basquiat, The Warhol
2021: Curator’s Insights: with Michael Herman on Jean-Michel Basquiat, The Warhol
2021: Curator’s Insights: Reflections on Warhol with Hilton Als, The Warhol
2020: Online series for Warhol books, The Warhol
2019: The Whitney “Warhol After Pop” symposium at the New School, NYC
2019: Radial Survey, Silver Eye Center for Photography, symposium
2018: The Artist Up Close: Devan Shimoyama, Cry, Baby, opening talk
2017: “Warhol’s Confession” at La Moneda Cultural Center, Santiago, Chile
2016: Dialogue with Blake Gopnik, Andy Warhol My Perfect Body opening talk
2016: Dialogue with Douglas Crimp, book talk, Before Pictures
2015: Dialogue with Philip Pearlstein, From Pittsburgh to New York opening
JUROR / CRITIC
2015 – 2019
Guest Critic: MFA Integrative Study, Carnegie Mellon School of Art
Juror: Silver Eye Center for Photography Fellowship Award
Juror: Pittsburgh Arts Festival Exhibition
Juror: Heinz Endowments & Pittsburgh Foundation Regional Artist Grants
Juror: Hamiltonian Gallery, Washington DC
Juror: Will’s Creek Exhibition: One Cubed
Juror: Buffalo Society of Artists 125th Anniversary Catalog Exhibition
INTERNSHIPS & FELLOWSHIPS
2004 – 2007
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Curatorial Intern, (Escultura Social: A New Generation of Art from Mexico City with Julie Rodrigues Widholm)
Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago(Lily Martin Spencer acquisition; Maurice Prendergast exhibition with senior curator Betsy Kennedy)
Chicago Botanic Garden, Art Collection Assistant
Art Institute of Chicago, Jeff Metcalf Fellow, Prints and Drawings, (Collection research with Martha Tedeschi)
COMMUNITY
2019: Curatorial Mentor: Brew House Association and Gallery
2016: Board Member: Radiant Hall, Artist Studio