BIOBIBLIOGRAPHY ........................... Irvine/ *Dominica 1949 Harvard University 1971, A.B. State University of New York, Buffalo 1983, M.F.A., Visual Studies Workshop Professor of Studio Art and Core Faculty, Program in Women's Studies at the University of California, Irvine. Writer, artist, and curator whose work addresses issues of feminism, queer identity, cultural politics, and colonialism. Catherine Lord has worked as associate editor of "Afterimage" and Dean of the School of Art at the California Institute of the Arts. She served as chair of the Department of Studio Art, UC Irvine (1990-1995) and as Director of the UCI Gallery (1991-1996). Her critical essays and her fiction have been published in Afterimage, Art & Text, Artcoast, New Art Examiner, Whitewalls, Framework, Documents, X-tra Trepan, and Art Paper, as well as in the collections "The Contest of Meaning", "Illuminations: Women Writing on Photography from the 1850s to the Present", "Reframings: New American Feminisms in Photography", "The Passionate Camera" (forthcoming), "Hers 3: Brilliant New Fiction by Lesbians", "Space, Site and Intervention: Issues in Installation and Site-Specific Art" and "Decomposing". Her curated exhibitions include "Pervert", "Trash", "Gender, fucked" and "Memories of Overdevelopment: Phillipine diaspora in Contemporary Visual Art". She is recipient of the Frank Jewett Mather Award for Art Criticism from the College Art Association. Her work as a visual artist was included in the 1995 exhibition "Longing and Belonging", commissioned by Site Santa Fe. She's working on a text/image book titled "The Effect of Tropical Light on White Men". |
