CURRICULUM VITAE
 
       
       
  Marcia Tucker    
  140 Sullivan Street #3    
  New York, New York 10012    
  Phone & Fax: (212) 533-4870    
  email: mtucker@nyc.rr.com    
  URL: http://www.marciatucker.com    
       
       
  Education:    
       
  1963-1969 Institute of Fine Arts, N.Y.U., New York  
    Master of Arts, 1965  
    Doctoral Studies, 1967-1969  
       
  1959-1960 École du Louvre, Paris, France  
       
  1957-1961 Connecticut College, New London, CT, B.A., 1961  
       
       
  Professional Experience:    
       
  2000      Independent writer, lecturer, art critic, stand-up comic  
       
  1977-1999 Founder and Director  
    New Museum of Contemporary Art, N.Y.  
       
  1999-present Founding Director, Emerita  
       
  1969-1977 Curator of Painting and Sculpture  
    The Whitney Museum of American Art, N.Y.  
       
  1965-1969 Editorial Associate, ArtNews, N.Y.  
       
  1961-1962 Department of Prints and Drawings  
    The Museum of Modern Art, N.Y.  
       
       
  Collections Catalogued:    
       
  1966-1969 American Painting in the Ferdinand Howald Collection  
    The Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus, Ohio,1969,  
    sponsored by a grant from the Ford Foundation  
       
  1967 Mrs. Werner Josten, N.Y. Collection Catalogue  
       
  1966-1967 Mr. and Mrs. Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Collection Catalogue  
       
  1963-1966 William N. Copley, N.Y. Curator of Collection  
       
       
  Major Exhibitions & Catalogue Essays:
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, 1977- Present

*The Time of Our Lives, July 15 – October 17,1999.

*A Labor of Love, January 20 - April 14, 1996.

"Andres Serrano: Retrospective," Andres Serrano: 1983 - 1993, January 27 - April 9, 1995 (at the New Museum), organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania (catalogue essays by Marcia Tucker, Robert Hobbs, and Wendy Steiner).

*Bad Girls, Part I: January 14 - February 27, 1994 & Part II: March 5 - April 10, 1994, (catalogue essays by Marcia Tucker, Marcia Tanner, Linda Goode Bryant, and Cheryl Dunye).

Late 20th Century Still Lifes, (the work of Manuel Pardo) February 16-April 7, 1991, (brochure essay).

*"Picture This: An Introduction to Interim," Mary Kelly INTERIM, (catalogue essays by Marcia Tucker, Norman Bryson, Griselda Pollock, and Hal Foster), 1990.

*Markus Raetz: In the Realm of the Possible, May 13-July 10, 1988.

The Other Man: Alternative Representations of Masculinity, May 8-July 12, 1987, (brochure essay).

*Pat Steir, Self-Portrait: An Installation, February 27-April 27, 1987.

*CHOICES: Making an Art of Everyday Life, February 1-March 30, 1986.

Paradise Lost/Paradise Regained: American Visions of the New Decade, U.S. Commissioner, 41st Venice Biennale, June 1984, with subsequent two-year tour in Eastern and Western Europe, sponsored by U.S.I.A. Catalogue published by U.S.I.A.

*Earl Staley: 1973-1983, March 31-May 20, 1984, (In collaboration with Linda Cathcart, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston).

Language, Drama, Source and Vision, October 8-November 27, 1983 (in collaboration with Lynn Gumpert and Ned Rifkin).

*Early Work, (Benglis, Brown, Jimenez, Stephan, Weiner), April 3-June 3, 1982, (In collaboration with Lynn Gumpert and Ned Rifkin).

*Not Just for Laughs: The Art of Subversion, November 21-January 21, 1982.

*John Baldessari, March 14-April 28, 1981, a retrospective exhibition, with catalogue co-published by University Art Galleries, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio.

The 1970s: New American Painting, organized by the New Museum for the U.S.I.A., touring Eastern and Western Europe, June 1979-April 1980.

*Barry Le Va: Four Consecutive Installations and Drawings, 1967-1978, December 16, 1978-February 10, 1979.

*Alfred Jensen: Paintings and Diagrams from the Years 1957 to 1977, March 10-April 21, 1978 (in collaboration with Linda L. Cathcart, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y.). "Mythical Vision: The Works of Alfred Jensen," exhibition catalogue published jointly by the New Museum of Contemporary Art and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery.

*"Bad" Painting, January 14-February 28, 1978.

*Early Work (Gorchov, Murray, Oppenheim, Rockburne, Shapiro), November 11-December 30, 1977.

 

 The Whitney Museum of American Art, 1969-1977

**1977 Biennial: Contemporary American Art, January 15-April 3, 1977

**Two Hundred Years of American Sculpture, March 15-September 11, 1977. "Shared Space: Contemporary Sculpture and its Environment," exhibition catalogue, 1976.

Performances: Four Evenings, Four Days, February 1976 (Terry Allen, Laurie Anderson, Laura Dean, Richard Foreman, Robert Wilson, David Gordon & Valda Setterfield, Connie Beckley, Michael Smith, Mary Overlie, and others).

**Richard Tuttle, September 11-November 16, 1975.

1975 Biennial: Contemporary American Art, January 20-April 9, 1975.

**Joan Mitchell (Retrospective Exhibition), March 6-May 5, 1975.

**Al Held (Retrospective Exhibition), October 11-December 1, 1974.

**Lee Krasner: Large Paintings, November 13, 1973-January 6, 1974.

Bruce Nauman (Work from 1965-1972), March 31-May 13, 1973; (with Jane Livingston, catalogue published jointly by Los Angeles County Museum of Art; essays by Marcia Tucker and Jane Livingston).

1973 Biennial: Contemporary American Art, January 10-March 18, 1972.

**James Rosenquist (Retrospective Exhibition), April 15-May 29, 1972.

1972 Annual: Contemporary American Painting, January 25-March 19, 1972.

**The Structure of Color, February 25-April 18, 1971.

**Robert Morris, April 9-May 31, 1970.

**Anti-Illusion: Procedures/Materials, May 19-June 6, 1969 (with James Monte).

* Catalogue published by the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
** Catalogue or monograph published by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

 

Smaller solo exhibitions organized for the Whitney Museum

Charles Garabedian, 1976
Susan Hall, 1972
Betye Saar, 1975
Jay van Everen, 1972
Dennis Ashbaugh, 1974
Jack Tworkov, 1971
Jack Whitten, 1974
Jane Kaufman, 1971
Johan Sellenrad, 1974
Rafael Ferrer, 1971
Tony Robbin, 1974
Steve Kaltenbach, 1970
Ree Morton, 1974
Ray Johnson, 1970
Joan Moment, 1974
Fred Eversely, 1970
William Allan, 1974
Alfred Jacob Miller, 1969
Gladys Nilsson, 1973
Al Loving, 1969
Joseph E. Yoakum, 1972
Nancy Graves, 1969
Italo Scanga, 1972

 

Independent Guest Exhibitions

Perejaume, "DIS-EXHIBIT," a retrospective exhibition organized for MACBA, Barcelona, 1999, with Carles Guerra (Exhibition catalogue, essays by Boris Groys, Carles Guerra and Marcia Tucker).

Twentieth-Century American Sculpture: A Northeast Region Exhibition, The First Lady’s Garden, The White House, Washington, DC, April 14-September 26, 1996.

Critical Perspectives, P.S. 1, Queens, N.Y., January 17-March 14, 1982.

1980 New Orleans Triennial Exhibition, New Orleans Museum of Art, October 3-November 16, 1980 (Exhibition catalogue).

Critical Perspective in American Art (with Sam Hunter and Rosalind Krauss), University of Massachusetts at Amherst, April 10-May 9, 1976, U.S. Entry in 1976 Venice Biennale.

Twenty-Eight Artists of the New York Avant-Garde, Saide Bronfman Centre, Montreal, Canada, 1973.

Four New York Painters, The New Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio, 1972.

The Invisible Image, The School of Visual Arts Gallery, New York, N.Y., 1970.

 

Other Catalogues and Publications

“No Title,” in The Space of Art: Buddha and the Culture of Now, ed. Jacqueline Baas and Mary Jane Jacob, University of California Press, 2005. Originally published as a white paper for “Awake: Art, Buddhism and the Dimensions of Consciousness,” on line at www.artandbuddhism.org

“No Title,” in Buddha Mind in Contemporary Art, ed. Jacquelynn Baas and Mary Jane Jacob, University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles & London, 2004.
“A Labor of Love,” in Objects and Meaning: Readings that Challenge the Norm, ed. Anna Fariello and Paula Owen, Scarecrow Press, Maryland, 2003.

Talking Visions: Multicultural Feminism in a Transnational Age, Documentary Sources in Contemporary Art, Vol. V, published by the New Museum of Contemporary Art in conjunction with The M.I.T. Press, 1998, Series editor and foreword.

"Museums Experiment with New Exhibition Strategies," The New York Times, Arts and Leisure section, Sunday, January 10, 1999.

"Questing for New Definitions of Contemporary Art," The New York Times, Arts and Leisure section, Sunday, March 29, 1998.

"Adventures in Liza Land," Liza Lou, Smart Art Press, 1997.

"A [Re]Movable Feast," Grantsmakers in the Arts, Spring 1997, Volume 8, Number 1.

"The New Museum: Documentary Sources in Contemporary Art," American Art Review, (Special Issue: The Henry Luce Foundation), February/March 1995.

"Collecting: The Strategy of Desire," a catalogue essay for the exhibition, Mettlesome & Meddlesome: Selections from the Robert J. Shiffler Collection, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1994.

"A Moment in Reverse," The Hamburger Monument against Fascism by Jochen and Esther Gerz, Verlag Gerd Hatje, Germany, 1994

Condensed version of a presentation delivered at The Contemporary Museum, Hawaii, on July 25, 1993, ARTbeat, November 1993.

Different Voices: A Social, Cultural, and Historical Framework for Change in the American Art Museum, Project Director. Introductory essay, “Who’s on First? Issues of Cultural Equity in Today’s Museums,” by Marcia Tucker, Association of Art Museum Directors, New York, 1992.

Out There: Marginalization and Contemporary Cultures, Documentary Sources in Contemporary Art, Vol. IV, published by the New Museum of Contemporary Art in conjunction with The M.I.T. Press, 1990, Series Editor and foreword.

Discourses: Conversations in Postmodern Art and Culture, Documentary Sources in Contemporary Art, Vol. III, published by the New Museum of Contemporary Art in conjunction with The M.I.T. Press, 1990, Series Editor and foreword.

"Common Ground," Museum News, July/August 1990.

"Nancy Dwyer Makes Trubble," Artforum, November 1989.

"Women Artists Today: Revolution or Regression?" Making Their Mark: Women Artists Move into the Mainstream, Maidenform, Inc., 1989.

"Equestrian Mysteries: An Interview with Deborah Butterfield," Art in America, June 1988.

"The Painted Equation: An Artist’s [Alfred Jensen] Rendering of Nature’s Laws," The Sciences, March/April 1988.

Blasted Allegories: An Anthology of Writings by Contemporary Artists, Documentary Sources in Contemporary Art, Vol. II, published by the New Museum of Contemporary Art in conjunction with The M.I.T. Press, 1987, Series Editor and foreword.

"Not Just for Laughs: The Art of Subversion," SF Camerawork Quarterly, March 1987.

PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE: Photographs by Daniel Faust, Amanda Means, Andres Serrano, Susan Unterberg, and Carrie Mae Weems, 1986.

Art After Modernism: Rethinking Representation, Documentary Sources in Contemporary Art, Vol. I, published by the New Museum of Contemporary Art in conjunction with David R. Godine, 1984, Series Editor and foreword.

"An Iconography of Recent Figurative Painting: Sex, Death, Violence and the Apocalypse," Artforum, Summer 1982.

"Terry Allen (on everything)," Artforum, October 1982.

"The Ring: ‘A Story which Swallows its Own Tale,’" Terry Allen, exhibition catalogue, The Nelson Gallery/Atkins Museum, Kansas City, Missouri, 1981.

"An Interview with Jack Tworkov," Jack Tworkov, Paintings 1950-1978, Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, Scotland, 1979.

"Mythical Vision: The Work of Alfred Jensen," Alfred Jensen: Paintings and Diagrams from the Years 1957-1977, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y., 1978.

"Cultural Irony," (Charles Garabedian, H.C. Westerman, Jim Roche), Critical Perspectives in American Art, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1976.

Introduction, Heavily Tattooed Men and Women, compiled by Spider Webb, McGraw Hill, Inc., N.Y., 1976.

Preface, Art Talk: Conversations with Twelve Women Artists, by Cindy Nemser, Charles Scribner & Sons, N.Y., 1975.

Guest Editor, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Arts Journal, (New York/California Issue), No. 10, March/April, 1976.

"Bypassing the Gallery System," Ms. Magazine, February 1973.

"Pat Steir: ‘The Thing Itself, Made by Me,’" Art in America, January/February, 1973.

"The Anatomy of a Brush Stroke: Recent Paintings by Joan Synder," Artforum, May 1971.

Robert Morris, Praeger Books, Inc., N.Y., 1970.

"PheNAUMANology," Artforum, December 1970. Reprinted in "Bruce Nauman," Hayward Gallery, London: 1998.

American Painting in the Ferdinand Howald Collection, Catalogue Raisonné, The Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus, Ohio, 1969.

 

Teaching Positions

2005-2006, Distinguished Visiting Professor, Otis college of art and Design,
Los Angeles, CA

2003-2005, Graduate Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

Fall 2004, Batza Professor of Art and Art History, Colgate University

Spring, 2003 - present, Bard Center for Curatorial Studies.

Spring, 2002 Distinguished Visiting Professor, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.

Fall, 1999 Visiting professor, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, R.I. (Graduate course)

Summer, 1999 Maine College of Art, Portland, ME. (Graduate course)

1977 Columbia University Graduate School of the Arts and Sciences, New York, N.Y.

1969-1973 The School of Visual Arts, New York, N.Y.

1967-1968 City University of New York, Graduate Center, New York, N.Y.

1966-1968 University of Rhode Island, Kingston, R.I.

 

Guest Lectures and Panel Discussions (Partial List)

Atlanta College of Art
Baltimore Museum of Art
Banff Centre of Fine Arts, Alberta, Canada
Bard College
Brandeis University
Chicago Art Institute
City University of N.Y; Brooklyn College; Graduate Center ; Lehman College
Columbia University
Connecticut College
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
Cornell University
Denver Art Museum, 2002, 25th Anniversary Keynote Speaker
Detroit Institute of the Arts
Florida International Museum, Miami, Fla., Critic’s Lecture Series, 2003
Fordham University
Fresno State University
Guggenheim Museum
Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY
I.C.A. Boston
I.C.A. Philadelphia
Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis, 2004
Kansas City Art Institute
La Jolla Museum of Art
Maine College of Art
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Memphis College of Art
Metropolitan Presidents Association
Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
Mills College, California
Minneapolis College of Art and Design
Minnesota State University, Moorhead, MN, 2003
Montana State University
Museum of American Folk Art
Museum of Fine Art, Houston
Museum of Fine Art, Virginia
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Nelson Atkins Museum, Kansas City
New School for Social Research
Philadelphia College of Art and Design
Rhode Island School of Design
Sacramento State University
San Francisco Art Institute
San Francisco Museum of Art
San Francisco State University
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Seattle Art Museum
Site Santa Fe, New Mexico
Smithsonian Institution
Southern Rim Conference, Appalachia State University
State University of New York; Purchase; Stony Brook; New Paltz
The Brooklyn Museum
The Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT
University of California; Berkeley; Chico; Davis; San Diego; Santa Barbara
University of Colorado, Boulder
University of Florida, Gainesville
University of Illinois, Bloomington; Chicago; Normal
University of Kentucky, Lexington
University of Massachusetts
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
University of Northern Illinois
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Vassar CollegeWNYC, Studio 360: Special Guest on “Fleeting,
     Jetty, Decasia,” with Kurt Andersen, 08/02-03
Wellesley College
Wright State University, Ohio
Yale University

 

International Lectures and Panels

La Caixa, Barcelona, Spain

École des Beaux Arts, Paris, France

Agency for Cultural Affairs, Tokyo, Japan

International Art Conference, Athens, Greece

Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel

Colloquium in Arts Education, Sao Paulo, Brazil

 

Affiliations

International Art Advisory Committee, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati,
Ohio, 2003 – present

Awake: Art, Buddhism and the Dimensions of Consciousness, Steering Committee, 2002

Jerome Foundation, Minneapolis, Board of Directors, 1999 - present

International Association of Art Critics, 1999 - present

Arts & Business Council, Inc., New York Advisory Committee member, 1994.

étant donnés, Advisory Committee Member (French-American Endowment for Contemporary Art), 1993 – 1997.

Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest International Artists, Advisory Panel, 1993.

The American Federation of Arts, Exhibition Committee Member, 1992-1998.

College Art Association, Honorary Committee, 1992.

Rockefeller Foundation, Mexico/U.S.A. Fund for Culture, Mexico City & New York City, Advisory Committee Member, 1992-1993.

American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, Fine Arts Advisory Committee Member, 1991-present.

The Andy Warhol Foundation, New York, advisory panelist, 1991.

Association of Art Museum Directors

(Chair, External Affairs Committee, 1989-90; Trustee, 1990-1995; Secretary, 1992-1994; member, 1986-1999).

Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities

(Chair, Museum Merit Aid, Museums panel review, 1988).

Rockefeller Foundation, New York, advisory panelist, 1987.

American Federation of Museums, Advisory Board, 1990-1995.

New York State Council on the Arts, Visual Arts Panel, 1984 – 1987.

Department of Cultural Affairs, New York, Percent for Art Panelist.

 

Honors

Art Table Award for Distinguished Service to the Visual Arts, 2000

Bard College Award for Curatorial Achievement, 1999

Honorary Doctorate, Atlanta College of Art, 1997

Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, French Government, 1997

Connecticut College Medal, 1994

CityArts Award for "Making a Difference Through the Arts," 1994

Asian Cultural Council Fellowship Award, Nov. 1989

Penny McCall Foundation Award (for dedication to the arts), 1988

Skowhegan Governors Award for Lifetime Service to the Arts, 1988

Honorary Doctorate, San Francisco Art Institute, 1983

Phi Beta Kappa

 

Selected Articles (1977-present) about Marcia Tucker

Martina Pachmanova, Innocent Beauty: Feminism and the Power of Visuality, One Woman Press, Prague, 2001 [12 interviews with American art historians, curators, and artists who deal with gender issues in visual culture (Linda Nochlin, Natalie Kampen, Jo Anna Isaak, Mira Schor, Kaja Silverman, Martha Rosler, Amelia Jones, Susan Suleiman, Alice Jardine, Carol Duncan, Marcia Tucker, Janet Wolff).

"Meet Miss Mannerist," ARTtalk, by Lucy Lethbridge, ArtNews, Summer 2000, p. 31.

"Private Lives," by Randy Kennedy: "After a Life in Art, a Quest for the Art of Life," The New York Times, September 30, 1999.

aRUDE, Regine Basha (interview), Number 10, 1998, "Doyen of the New Museum."

ArtNews, May, 1998, "The New New Museum."

Crain’s New York Business, April 20 –26, 1998, "Mastering the Art of Pragmatism."

Artforum, William Harris, "Marcia Plan," December, 1997.

Paper, Victoria Pederson, "The New Museum’s New Look," December, 1997.

ArtNews, Kay Larson, "We’ve Come a Long Way. . . Maybe," March, 1997.

New York, Edith Newhall, "Art for Argument’s Sake," March 24, 1997

Mirabella, June, 1994, "Ladies Who Launch."

Sculpture, Suzanne Ramljak (interview), November-December 1993.

Art Papers, Anne Barclay Morgan (interview), May/June 1993.

Connecticut College Magazine, Kristi Vaughan (interview), March - April 1993, Vol. 2, No. 5, "The Art of Influence."

The New York Times, Celia McGee, January 15, 1993, Profile.

Artweek, Marcia Tanner (interview), April 23, 1992, "A conversation with Marcia Tucker."

Art Papers, (interview), March/April 1991, "Who Speaks for the Artist?"

Arte Factum, Ronald van de Sompel (interview), September, 1991.

Newsweek, Peter Plagens, December 31, 1990, "Censorship."

Contemporanea, Roslyn Bernstein (interview), October 1990.

ArtNews, by Patricia Failing, May 1989, "Gloom at the Top."

ArtNews, by Lisbet Nilson, October 1988, "Coming of Age."

Town and Country, by Suzy (Aileen Mehle), September 1988, "Quintessential Women."

New York Woman, by Deborah Michel, October 1987, "A Change of Art."

The New Art Examiner, by Eleanor Heartney, December 1985, "Can the New Museum Buck the 80s?"

Vogue Magazine, by Kay Larson, August 1985, "Marcia Tucker, The Art of Mothering."

The Christian Science Monitor, April 1985, excerpt from the dedication speech by Marcia Tucker for the Albert and Vera List Visual Arts Center at M.I.T., "Contemporary Art: Of What Use is It?"

The Houston Chronicle, by Patricia Johnson, January 1985, "New Museum’s Tucker Keeps Art in Step with Today."

Town and Country, by Marion Wood, September 1984, "MoMA’s Children."

Vantage Point, by Robert Storr, September/October 1984, "The New Museum, an Interview with Marcia Tucker."

Philadelphia Inquirer, by Steven Salisbury, April 11, 1984, "She’s in the Artworld, But Not of It."

The New Yorker, by Calvin Tompkins, December 26, 1983, "The Art World Alternatives."

Beaux Arts Magazine, December 1983, "Le New Museum de Marcia Tucker."

The New York Times, by Michael Brenson, November 25, 1983, "Art People."

Republic Scene, by Sara Longacre, November 25, 1983, "The New Museum."

The Christian Science Monitor, by Theodore F. Wolff, October 31, 1983.

ArtNews, October 1983, "The New Museum’s New Museum."

Vanity Fair, September 1983, "Bad Girl Makes Good: Marcia Tucker."

The New York Times, by Grace Glueck, July 21, 1983, "Two Museums Add Balance to SoHo."

New York Newsday, by Robert Atkins, July 3, 1983, "For Emerging Artists, a Nervy Showcase."

Art Papers, by Julia A. Fenton, January/February 1982, "Interview: Marcia Tucker."

Artworkers News, by David Troy, December 1980, "The New Museum as Kunsthalle."

Ocular Magazine, Fall Quarter 1980, "Interview: Marcia Tucker."

Arts Quarterly, New Orleans, Louisiana, October/November 1980, "1980 Triennial: An Interview with Juror Marcia Tucker, Director, the New Museum."

Staten Island Advance, by Elaine Boise, March 30, 1980, "Better Friend Hath No Artist: Thank the New Museum."

The Villager, by Elaine Blair, February 19, 1979, "The New Museum Just Doesn’t Say ‘NO.’"

Art Journal, Spring 1978, College Art Association, "The New Museum: A Forum for Dialogue, Controversy, and Visual Provocation."

Art in America, by Robert Olson, November/December 1977, "Brave New Museum."

Vogue Magazine, by Barbara Rose, November 1977, "New Space for New Art."

The New York Times, by Grace Glueck, June 3, 1977, "Art People."

Ms. Magazine, April 1977, "On the Arts."

 

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