Catherine Lord
Catherine Lord (born 1949) is an American artist, writer, curator, social activist, professor, and scholar exploring themes of feminism, cultural politics, and colonialism. In 2010, she was awarded the Harvard Arts Medal.[1]
Early life and education
[edit | edit source]Born in Dominica, she attended a British boarding school in Barbados. When she was 13, she moved to Iowa with her family.[1]
While attending Radcliffe College, where she majored in English, she worked as a research assistant at the Schlesinger Library. She earned her Master of Fine Arts degree in photography and the history of photography at the Visual Studies Workshop, an artists' organization allied with the State University of New York at Buffalo. Lord also edited Afterimage, a journal of photography, film, and video.[2]
Work
[edit | edit source]Her work includes The Effect of Tropical Light on White Men and the "text/image project".[3][4] She edited the catalogue for an exhibition of lesbian art, "All but the Obvious".[3]
Curated work
[edit | edit source]Lord has curated a number of exhibitions, including: "Pervert", "Trash", and "Gender, fucked",[5] and "Memories of Overdevelopment: Philippine Diaspora in Contemporary Visual Art."[where?][3]
Published work
[edit | edit source]Lord published an experimental narrative, The Summer of Her Baldness: A Cancer Improvisation, in which she shares her experience of gender during chemotherapy.[6]
Film
[edit | edit source]In 2021, she was one of the participants in John Greyson's experimental short documentary film International Dawn Chorus Day.[7]
Academic career
[edit | edit source]For seven years, Lord served as dean of the school of art at the California Institute of the Arts. From 1990 to 1995, she was the chairman of the art department at UC Irvine. From 1991 to 1996, she was the director of the UCI Gallery at that institution.[3] She currently teaches at the Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College.
Gallery exhibitions at UCI
[edit | edit source]From October 3 to November 7,[clarification needed] "And 22 Million Very Tired and Very Angry People" was an installation by Carrie Mae Weems. In the winter quarter, January 7 to February 4,[clarification needed] "Convergence: Eight Photographers" was organized by Deborah Willis, curator of the Schoenberg Center of Black American Art in New York. It showcased black artists' perspective.[2]
Awards
[edit | edit source]In 2008, she was named the Shirley Carter Burden Visiting Professor of Photography at Harvard University. In 2010, she received the Harvard Arts Medal.[1]
Fellowships
[edit | edit source]Lord has received many fellowships. They include the New York State Council on the Arts, the Humanities Research Institute of the University of California, the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, the Norton Family Foundation, the Andy Warhol Foundation, the Creative Capital Foundation, the Durfee Foundation, the Rockefeller Center for Arts and Humanities, the California Community Foundation and Anonymous Was a Woman.[3]
Panels
[edit | edit source]At the Exquisite Acts & Everyday Rebellions: 2007 CalArts Feminist Art Symposium, Lord spoke on the panel "Strategies for Contemporary Feminism".[8]
Further reading
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- The conceptual translation Sa Calvitie, Son Colibri: Miss Translation (L’une Bevue)
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