TEXTBIOGRAPHY

Janet Kraynak



BIOBIBLIOGRAPHY
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Janet L. Kraynak
New York/ *USA 1965

1985/86
Middlebury College School
Florence, Italy

1987
B.A. (Art History)
Vassar College
Poughkeepsie, NY

1990-93
Ph.D. Program in Art History
The Graduate Center
City University of New York

2001
Ph.D. (History & Theory of Art)
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology
Cambridge/MA

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
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1997-2001
Center For Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson/NY
Whitney Museum of American Art, Dept. of Education, New York

1993/94
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Teaching Fellow, Cambridge/MA

PUBLICATIONS
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Forthcoming 2003
"Please Pay Attention Please: Bruce Nauman's Words: Interviews and Writings" (book in progress). M.I.T. Press

Forthcoming 2002
"Into the Light and Loop", Documents 21 (Fall)
"Matthew Buckingham", Hudson Valley Project, exhibition catalogue, vol. 1 (Spring)

2001
"Travelling in Do-Ho Suh's World", in: "Do-Ho Suh", exhibition catalogue, Korean National Pavilion, Venice Biennial, Korean Culture and Arts Foundation, Seoul

2000
"Tom Friedman", Documents 18, Summer 2000, pp. 34 - 37
"Julia Margaret Cameron's Women and Another Girl Another Planet", Documents 15, Spring/Summer 1999, pp. 51 - 55

1998
"Diana Thater", Documents 14, Winter 1998, pp. 33 - 38
"Rirkrit Tiravanija's Liability", Documents 13, Fall 1998, pp. 26 - 40
"A Play of One Act", Documents 12, Spring 1998, pp. 37 - 41

1997
"Pagan Stories: The Situations of Narrative in Recent Art", exhibition brochure, Apex Art C. P., New York
"Bruce Nauman at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg", Frieze (Sept./Oct.)

1995
"The Italian Metamorphosis", Flash Art (Jan./Febr.)

CONFERENCES & LECTURES
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2001
"Initial Public Offerings", a conversation with artists Chan Schatz on the social and artistic impact of digital technologies. Whitney Museum of American Art
"Performance in Question", Panel co-chair (with Frazer Ward), College Art Association Annual Conference, Chicago

1997
"The Severed Image: Bruce Nauman's Photographic Principle", College Art Association Annual Conference, New York

1996
"The Voice of Criticism", panel. Organizer, speaker and moderator for panel discussion on the status of critical discourse in contemporary art, New York
" 'Death As Possibility: On the Writing of Eva Hesse', Interdisciplinary Approaches to Visual Culture", University of California, Berkeley

CURATORIAL
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Advisory Committee for the exhibition "Work Ethic", curated by Helen Molesworth, Baltimore Museum of Art (scheduled to open in 2003)
Co-curator (with Margaret Sundell), "Re-Drawing the Line in Film and Video", Art in General, New York, Oct. 2000
"Pagan Stories: The Situations of Narrative in Recent Art", Apex Art Curatorial Program, New York 1997

COMMITTEES
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1999 - present
Editorial Board. Documents magazine

1998 - present
Advisory Board. Apex Art Curatorial Program, New York