Marcia Tucker was a free-lance art critic, writer,
and lecturer living and working in Santa Barbara, California. From 1977
to 1999, she was the Founder and Director of the New
Museum of Contemporary Art, a museum located in New York City dedicated
to innovative art and artistic practice. There, she organized such major
exhibitions as The
Time of Our Lives (1999), A
Labor of Love (1996), and Bad Girls (1994), and was co-curator of
a retrospective exhibition by the Catalan artist Perejaume at the Museum
of Contemporary Art in Barcelona in 1999. She was the series editor
of Documentary Sources in Contemporary Art, five books of theory and
criticism published by the New Museum.
Ms. Tucker was Curator of Painting and Sculpture at
the Whitney Museum of American Art
from 1969 to 1977, where she organized major exhibitions of the work
of Bruce Nauman, Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell, and Richard Tuttle, among
others. She was the 1999 recipient of the Bard
College Award for Curatorial Achievement, and received the Art Table
Award for Distinguished Service to the Visual Arts in 2000. Throughout
her career she taught, lectured and published widely, both in the U.S.
and abroad.
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