EDUCATION
Yale University, New Haven, CT
Ph.D., Department of the History of Art, 2001, M.A., 1996
Thesis: The Visual Idea: Photography in Conceptual Art

California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
M.F.A., Photography, 1993

Harvard College, Cambridge, MA
B.A., magna cum laude, 1990
Combined concentration: Visual and Environmental Studies, English and American Literature

COLLECTIONS
The Collection of Artist's Books, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Special Collections Library, Duke University, North Carolina
The Collection of Artist's Books, The National Art Library, London

ARTIST'S BOOKS
Art Theory Made Me Cry , 1995 Distributed by Printed Matter, New York.
Selected as "Pick of the Issue" by JAB: The Journal of Artist's Books , Spring, 1997.
Obsessive Love , 1994 Distributed by Printed Matter, New York.

SELECTED CRITICAL AND ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
"Enigmatic Spectacle: Key Strategies in Contemporary Staged Photography." Role Models:
	Feminine Identity in Contemporary American Photography (exh. cat.) New York and Washington: Scala and National Museum of Women in the Arts, 2008.
"Introduction." Karen Knorr Fables , Paris: Filigranes, 2008, p. 6-11.
"Alexandra McGlynn: Lost in Play," Source 54 (Spring 2008), p. 10-11.
"Why Art Photography?" Source 53 (Winter 2008), p. 22-29.
"Crooked Photography: Pictorialism and Surrealism 2007." In Fotografi i Focus , Malmö: fotografi
	i focus, 2007.
"Idris Khan: The Collapsed Archive." Source 49 (Winter 2007), p. 46-47.
"What Lies Beneath." Frieze 101 (September 2006) p.177-179.
"Stilled." Source 47 (Summer 2006), pp. 64-65.
"Karen Knorr Fables." Portfolio 42 (December 2005), p. 12-13.
"Adam Fuss: Medium as Muse." Source 45 (Winter 2005), p. 58-59.
"Malerie Marder: The State of Contemporary Desire." Source 44 (Autumn 2005), p. 54-55.
"Edwin Zwakman." Source 43 (Summer 2005), p. 50-51.
"The Photograph as Contemporary Art" Source 42 (Spring 2005), p. 62-63.
"Ori Gersht." Source 41 (Winter 2004), p. 46-7.
"Hannah Starkey: Art's Best Tricks" Source 40 (Autumn 2004), p. 44-5.
"Boyd Webb, Botanics ." Source 39 (Summer 2004), p. 58.
"Robert Davies, The Poetry of Experience ." Source 39 (Summer 2004), p. 54.
"Olivier Richon: Still Life and Allegory." Portfolio 39 (June 2004), p. 40-6.
"Clare Richardson, Harlemville ." Source 38 (Spring 2004), p. 68.
"Edgar Martins, Black Holes and Other Inconsistencies ." Source 36 (Autumn 2003), p. 68.
"Critical (in) Practice," Afterimage , vol. 29, no. 4 (January/February, 2002).
Entries on Michael Asher, Victor Burgin, Peter Fischli & David Weiss, and Mike Kelley in Tom and
	Sara Pendergast, eds., Contemporary Artists , 5th edition. London and New York: St. James Press, 2001.
"Tate: Model for the 21 st Century Mega-museum," X-tra , vol 3, no. 3 (Summer 2001), p. 16-21.
"Grrrls, Gurls, Gyrls." Catalogue essay for an exhibition co-curated with Martin Kruck. New Haven,
	Connecticut: Untitled (Space) Gallery, 2001.
"Contemporary Prints and Drawings Acquired in Honor of Richard S. Field." New Haven,
	Connecticut: Yale University Art Gallery, 2000.
"An Heirloom: Interpreting a Gilded Age Tortoiseshell Locket." In Jules David Prown and Kenneth
	Haltman, eds., American Artifacts: Essays in Material Culture . East Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State University Press, 2000, p. 213-227.
"Dial 'P' for Panties: Narrative Photography in the 1990s." Afterimage, vol. 27, no. 4
	(January/February 2000), p. 9-12.
"The Photographic Idea: Reconsidering Conceptual Photography." Afterimage , vol. 26, no. 5
	(March/April 1999), p. 8-10.
"Document and Fiction in the Work of Carrie Mae Weems." Art and Design , no. 51, p. 70-75.

SELECTED TALKS AND CONFERENCE PAPERS
"Photography and Social Media," introduction to a study day chaired by Lucy Soutter at the
	London College of Communication, October 2008.
"Recent Trends in British Art Photography," A seminar presentation at the Malmö Konsthall as part
	of the Fotografi i Focus festival, Malmö Sweden, March 2007
"Post-Studio Art School: The Impact of Conceptual Art and Conceptual Artists on Art Education," a
	panel chaired by Lucy Soutter at the College Art Association Conference, Boston, February, 2006.
"The College Art Association Conference Made me Cry," A lecture/performance delivered as part
	of the panel "Play, Pleasure and Perversion: Insubordinate Refusals of Discipline in the Practices of Art and Theory," chaired by Simeon R. Hunter at the College Art Association Conference, Atlanta, February 2005.
An ongoing series of lectures at The Royal Academy Schools, on contemporary American artists
	including Matthew Barney (November 2004); Philip Guston (April 2004); Laura Owens ("The Politics of Decorative Eclecticism," January 2004); John Currin ("Masculinity and Bad Taste", October 2003); Carroll Dunham ("Fouling the Nest: Abstraction vs. Figuration," February 2003); and Mike Kelley ("Abjection and Ecstasy," May 2002).
"Douglas Huebler's Visual Provocation: Creative Thinking in the Undifferentiated Field," A lecture
	given as part of a conference organised by Mark Godfrey, coinciding with an exhibition of Huebler's work at the Camden Arts Centre, March 2002.
"Community vs. Context in the Reception of Eleanor Antin's Retrospective," delivered as part of
	the panel "Re-viewing 1970s and 1980s Feminist Art Practices in the 1990s: Three Major Exhibitions on Judy Chicago, Eleanor Antin and Martha Rosler," at the College Art Association Conference, Chicago, March 2001.
"Understanding Minimal & Conceptual Works on Paper," gallery talk presented with exhibit
	"Contemporary Prints & Drawings Acquired in Honor of Richard S. Field," Yale University Art Gallery, Spring 2000.
"Confrontations with Early Video Art," gallery talk presented in conjunction with exhibit "Animating
	the Static: Experiments in Video 1965-1980", Yale University Art Gallery, Winter, 1998.
"The Los Angeles Thing," slide lecture/performance on Los Angeles Art and its contemporary
	cultural context, presented in collaboration with Scott Lyall, at U.K. arts institutions including The Institute of Contemporary Art, London; Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow; and Goldsmiths College, London.
"Richard Prince and the Latent Symbolism of Photographic Postmodernism," presented at
	Berkeley Symposium of Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Visual Arts, The University of California, Berkeley, Spring 1993.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE 
Royal College of Art, London
Tutor, Critical and Historical Studies (since Autumn 2008)

Sotheby's Institute, London
Visiting Lecturer, MA in Photography (since Summer 2008)

London College of Communication, London
Senior Lecturer, Photography, School of Media (Spring 2004-Autumn 2008)

Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College, High Wycombe
Senior Lecturer, Fine Art , Faculty of Design (Autumn 2002-Winter 2004)

Yale University, New Haven, CT
Lecturer, The History of Photography: A Practical Darkroom Course (Spring 2000)

The State University of New York, Purchase
Lecturer, The History of Photography (Autumn 1998)

Vivian Horan Fine Art , New York, NY
Gallery Assistant (1995)
Researched, documented and installed works of modern art.

The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, New York, NY
Tour Guide/Gallery Assistant (1993-95)
Researched and presented interactive tours of European and American decorative art exhibitions.

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