Dan Cameron has been Senior Curator
at the New Museum since 1995. He oversees
the activities of the Curatorial Department,
which include exhibitions, catalogs,
and the collection.
An art critic and curator based in New
York since 1979, Cameron has published
over two hundred fifty texts on art
in various international publications,
including Artforum, Parkett, Frieze,
and Flash Art. He has
contributed to numerous museum catalogues
for such institutions as the Royal Academy
of Art, London; San Francisco Museum
of Modern Art; Hirschhorn Museum and
Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; Stedelijk
Museum, Amsterdam; and Carnegie Museum
of Art, Pittsburgh. As an independent
curator, Cameron has organized large-scale
exhibitions of contemporary art at several
major venues, including “Art and its
Double” (Fundacio ‘la Caixa,' Barcelona,
1986); ‘Aperto,' Biennale di Venezia
(1988), “Cocido y Crudo” (Centro Renia
Sofia, Madrid, 1994-95), “Threshold”
(Fundação de Serralves,
Oporto, 1995); and “Theory of Leisure”
(Coleccion Jumex, Mexico City, 2002).
He was most recently curator for the
8 th International Istanbul Biennial,
September-November 2003.
Since joining the New Museum in 1995,
Cameron has organized or co-organized
exhibitions over two dozen exhibitions,
including Carolee Schneemann: Up
to and Including her Limits (Nov
1996 – Jan 1997); Unland: Doris
Salcedo (Mar-Jun 1998); Dancing
at the Louvre: Faith Ringgold's French
Collection and Other Story Quilts
(Oct 1998 – Jan 1999); Fever: the
Art of David Wojnarowicz (Jan-Jun
1999), Cildo Meireles (Nov
1999 – Mar 2000), Pierre et Gilles
(Sep 2000 – Jan 2001), Paul
McCarthy (Feb-May 2001); William
Kentridge (Jun –Sep 2001); Living
inside the Grid (Feb-Jun 2003);
and Jose Antonio Hernandez-Diez
(Jul-Sept 2003).
Cameron has also lectured at museums
and universities around the world, served
on numerous grant and fellowship panels,
and is a board member of several committees,
including the Acquisitions Committee
of the art collection for Fundacio ‘la
Caixa,' Barcelona.
Jeffrey
Deitch
Jeffrey Deitch has been involved with
several of the Deste Foundation's best
known exhibition projects, such as Cultural
Geometry, Artificial Nature, Post Human,
and Everything That's Interesting Is
New. He has been active as an art writer,
exhibition organizer, and art dealer
and advisor since 1973. During the 1980s
he co-founded and managed Citibank's
Art Advisory Service. Through the mid
1990s he worked as an art advisor and
independent curator. He was one of the
team of curators for the Aperto section
of the 1993 Venice Biennale. In 1996,
he began Deitch Projects, a New York
gallery specializing in ambitious artist's
projects. The gallery has been influential
in the new convergence of art, music,
fashion and design.
Alison
M. Gingeras
Alison M. Gingeras has been curator
for contemporary art at the Musée
national d´Art moderne, Centre
Pompidou, Paris since 1999. She has
organized several artists´ projects,
including the installation of Thomas
Hirschhorn´s Skulptur Sortier
Station at the Stalingrad Metro
station in Paris (2001) and several
exhibitions including Dear Painter,
Paint Me: Painting the Figure since
late Picabia and Daniel Buren´
s Le Musée qui n´existait
pas at the Centre Pompidou (2002).
She regularly contributes to a diverse
range of publications and periodicals
including Parkett, Artforum, and Vogue.
She is also the author of numerous exhibition
catalogues and books, including publications
on Jeff Koons, Franz West, Maurizio
Cattelan, and Peter Friedl as well as
Phaidon´s volume on recent painting
entitled Vitamin P (2002)
and Routledge´s essay collection
entitled French Theory in America
(2001). Her forthcoming projects
for 2004 are the monograph on photographer
Guy Bourdin (Phaidon Press), the upcoming
exhibitions at the Centre Pompidou of
Urs Fischer and Kristin Baker, as well
as two public projects in Paris with
Piotr Uklanski and Thomas Hirschhorn.
Massimiliano
Gioni
Curator and art critic, Massimiliano
Gioni (1973) is the artistic director
of the Trussardi Foundation in Milan
, and one of the curators of Manifesta
5 ( San Sebastian , Spain , 2004).
He has curated various exhibitions among
which: Short Cut - Elmgreen and Dragset;
If I Had You - Darren Almond; Yesterday
Begins Tomorrow. In 2003, for the 50th
edition of the Venice Biennial, he curated
"The Zone," a new pavillion
for young Italian contemporary art.
In New York , with Maurizio Cattelan
and Ali Subotnick, Massimiliano Gioni
runs the Wrong Gallery, a no profit
space that has presented works and special
projectes by, among others: Tomma Abts,
Pawel Althamer, Phil Collins, Martin
Creed, Sam Durant, Cameron Jamie, Paul
McCarthy and Jason Rhoades, Elizabeth
Peyton, Tino Sehgal and Lawrence Weiner.
Former US editor of Flash Art magazine,
Massimiliano Gioni has written extensively
on contemporary art, publishing his
articles in Parkett, Flash Art and Carnet.
His most recent monographic essays include:
Maurizio Cattelan (Phaidon, London);
Anna Gaskell (Yvon Lambert, Paris-New
York); Christian Jankowsky (Museum für
Gegenwartskunst, Basel); Katarzyna Kozyra
(Silvana, Milan); Alex Katz (Silvana,
Milan); Collier Schorr (303 Gallery,
New York); Simon Starling (Hammer Museum,
Los Angeles); Patrick Tuttofuoco (Name,
Milan).
With Cattelan and Subotnick, Gioni edits
the visual magazine Charley and holds
a regular column in Domus magazine.
Nancy
Spector
Nancy Spector is Curator of Contemporary
Art at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
in New York , where she has organized
the exhibitions: Matthew Barney:
The Cremaster Cycle , Moving
Pictures , Felix Gonzalez-Torres,
Robert Rauschenberg: Performance, and
Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated):
Art from 1951 to the Present. For
the Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin , she
has worked with Andreas Slominski, Hiroshi
Sugimoto, and Lawrence Weiner on newly
commissioned exhibition projects. She
has coordinated the Guggenheim's biannual
Hugo Boss Prize since its inception
in 1996. She served as an Adjunct Curator
for the 1997 Venice Biennale and was
a co-organizer of the first Berlin Biennial
in 1998. A critic and essayist, she
has lectured and published widely on
issues in contemporary culture, contributing
to books on Luc Tuymans, Roni Horn,
Douglas Gordon, and Maurizio Cattelan,
among others. Most recently she served
as a co-author for Cream
3 (2003).
