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Elaine A. King is a Professor of the History of Art & Critical Theory, in the College of Fine Arts Carnegie Mellon University. King has been a museum director, curator, and is a professor of the history of art, museum practices, as well as critical theory. After the upheaval of the Robert Mapplethorpe controversy she became the Museum Director of the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati. During this time she experienced first hand a spectrum of practices that bordered on the unethical. She holds a Certificate of Arts Appraisal from New York University. Elaine King is currently the guest curator for the Mari Mater O'Neill retrospective for the Museum of Art Puerto Rico scheduled to open in September 2006. Her interview with the co-directors of the Venice Biennale 05 appears in the summer issue of Sculpture Magazine and her interview with Barry Le Va appears in the Fall issue. This summer she will be giving a paper at the Popular Culture International Conference in Wales on the art of Tony Oursler and she was invited to speak on the A Global Cultural Tapestry: Museums in a After Post Present, at the Third International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities at the Cambridge University, England.
Furthermore she was a Senior Research Fellow at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery in 2000 working on a project titled, Portraits in the USA: 1960-2000.that will result in a book and exhibition. She also was awarded a Short-term Research Fellow in 2002, to continue her portrait research King has been the Executive Director and Chief Curator of the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, as well as the Director and Curator of the Carnegie Mellon Art Gallery. She has organized a wide range of one-person exhibitions and catalogues for such artist, Barry Le Va, Martin Puryear, Elizabeth Murray, Mel Bochner, Nancy Spero, and Robert Wilson. In addition, she has curated a wide range of group exhibitions including Light Into Art: Photography to Virtual Reality, New Generations, New York, Chicago, The Figure As Fiction, Abstraction Today, Drawing in the Eighties, and Art In the Age of Information. She is a freelance critic who writes for Sculpture, Art on Pape, Grapheion, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, and the Washington Post. King has been the guest curator several times for the Hungarian Graphic Arts Biennial in Gyor between 1993-2005.
Allworth Press books written by Elaine A. King:
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