Research Catalogue

I currently serves as the Andrew W. Mellon Curator for Resaarch and director of the Integrated Arts Research Initiative at the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas. Previously, I served as the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow for the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. I received an MA and PhD as an Arts and Sciences Fellow from Emory University’s Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts and an MA in Visual and Critical Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. I have taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Emory University, Georgia State University, the University of Memphis, and as an Artist-Teacher for the Vermont College of Fine Arts. Curatorial work has focused almost exclusively on installation and public intervention, from alternative, grassroots venues to museum, commercial and municipal exhibition spaces. Past projects have been reviewed by Art Papers, Art in America, ARTnews, Contemporary (UK), Public Art Review and Sculpture magazine, among others. I served for five years on the editorial advisory board for Art Papers magazine, recently guest edited a special issue on Participatory Research for Visual Methodologies, and am currently co-editing "Inhabiting Cultures," a special issue of the Journal of American Studies. I am a founding member of the idea collective, John Q, whose projects explore public intervention, queer memory, and archival practices. Most recent publications include the chapter "Collecting Social Things" in the volume Rhetoric, Social Value, and the Arts (Palgrave Macmillan 2017) and an interview with artist Suzanne Lacy in Art & the Public Sphere (2017).