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The 2010 ARTIST OF THE MONTH CLUB was curated by the following:
LISA ANASTOS
Lisa Anastos is the CEO and Co-Founder of ARThood, a new social networking website dedicated to the art world. Ms. Anastos is a passionate advocate of the arts and is a Founding Board Member of Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND), a Board Member of Creative Time, and an Advisory Board Member of the Parrish Art Museum. Additionally, Ms. Anastos is an enthusiastic supporter of the Watermill Arts Center and the Whitney Museum of Art, especially the Whitney Contemporaries and the Artists Council.MARK BEASLEY
Mark Beasley is a curator, writer and artist based in New York. Currently a curator for Performa, hepreviously worked at the New York based public art organization Creative Time. His recent projects include the first public art quadrennial Plot/09: This World & Nearer Ones; Hey Hey Glossolalia: exhibiting the voice, and Javier Tellez critically acclaimed film A Letter on the Blind. As an independent curator he organized the international touring show Electric Earth: Film and Video from Britain, for the British Council; Infra thin Projects with Book Works, London and Sudden White (after London), at the Royal Academy of Art. Between 2004-2005 he was the Stanley Picker Research Fellow in Fine Art at Kingston University, London and has contributed articles and essays to numerous exhibition catalogues, radio plays and journals including Dot Dot Dot, Art Forum and frieze. He is represented by MOT International gallery in London. He received his BA Hons in Fine Art from Bath University, UK and an MA in Curating Contemporary Art from the Royal College of Art, London.BENGALA
Matrimonial art collective. Co-founder of AMC.CHRISTOPHER EAMON
For eleven years Christopher Eamon was curator of the internationally respected Pamela and Richard Kramlich Collection in San Francisco, guiding acquisitions and curating exhibitions that contextualized the collection’s holdings. Exhibitions include Silent Treatment and Bill Viola: The Crossing both at the Aspen Art Museum, 1999, “Video Acts: Single-Channel Works from the Collections of Pamela and Richard Kramlich and New Art Trust” at PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York and ICA London, 2002-2003, and “Beyond Cinema: the Art of Projection, 1963-2005” at the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum for Contemporary Art in Berlin, 2006. More Recently, his exhibitions “A Rictus Grin” (Summer 2008) and “Accidental Modernism” (January 2008), combined historical and contemporary works in diverse media. In 2005 Eamon conceived and edited Anthony McCall: the Solid Light Films and Related Works published by Northwestern University Press, Evanston IL and Steidl, Germany. More recent publications include writings on film and video art from 1950 to 1980 in the Tate’s Film and Video Art (Tate Publishing, 2009) and an anthology on the history and significance of projected images in art from the 18th Century to present entitled Art of Projection, co-edited with artist Stan Douglas (Hatje Cantz, 2009). Eamon is curating an upcoming exhibition of contemporary Eastern and Central European post-conceptual art that will take place at the Bronx Museum of the Arts in 2010.JENS HOFFMAN
Jens Hoffmann Mesén (born 1974 in San José, Costa Rica) is a writer and curator of exhibitions. He has worked as a curator since 1997 and is currently the Director of the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco where he also directs the Capp Street Project artists-in-residency program. From 2003 to 2007 he was the Director of Exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. He has curated over 30 exhibitions internationally since the late 1990s. Most recently he was co-curator of the 2nd San Juan Triennial, Puerto Rico, 2009 and is currently co-curating, with Harrell Fletcher, the People's Biennial, to be held in 2010 at five US museums, organized by Independent Curators International in New York. In 2009 Hoffmann founded The Exhibitionist: A Journal for Exhibition Making. He was nominated by the Menil Collection in Houston for the Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement in 2008.ANTHONY HUBERMAN
Anthony Huberman is a curator and writer based in New York. He is a Curatorial Advisor at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Adjunct Professor at Hunter College, and co-founder of The Steins.TERENCE KOH
Terence Koh rose to prominence in the mid 1990s under the nom de plume asianpunkboy, for his eponymous website and “art-porn” zines. His sprawling body of work, which includes paintings, photographs, sculptures, drawings, and performances, quickly drew a large following in the queercore underground and in the larger art world. A collaborator with artists such as Larry Clark, Dan Colen, Bruce LaBruce and Banks Violette, Koh’s work has been exhibited internationally including participation in the 2004 Whitney Biennial. Since “killing off” asianpunkboy in 2003, he has concentrated on producing large, roomsized installations and performances, often utilizing everyday objects, His website kohbunny.com is updated regularly with a mixture of his drawings, photographs, writing and art. In 2005 he opened an exhibition space in New York, Asia Song Society, along with gallerist Javier Peres. Koh lives and works in Beijing, New York and Berlin, and is represented by Peres Projects, Los Angeles Berlin.RENÉ MORALES
René Morales is Associate Curator at Miami Art Museum. His recent projects at MAM include the exhibitions Space as Medium and Objects of Value. Prior to coming to Miami, Morales co-organized several exhibitions at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum in Providence, RI.RISA NEEDLEMAN
New York-based curator. co-founder of AMC.BOB NICKAS
Bob Nickas is an independent critic and curator based in New York. He has organized more than seventy exhibitions since 1984, and served as Curatorial Adviser at PS1 Contemporary Art Center in New York from 2004 to 2007. Among his many exhibitions at PS1 are Lee Lozano: Drawn From Life — 1961-1971; William Gedney — Christopher Wool: Into the Night: Stephen Shore: American Surfaces; Wolfgang Tillmans: Freedom From The Known, and The Painted World. He collaborated with Cady Noland on her installation for Documenta IX in 1992; contributed a section to Aperto at the 1993 Venice Biennale, An Essay on Liberation; and served on the curatorial teams which organized the 2003 Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France, and Greater New York 2005, PS1/MoMA . His book, Live Free or Die: Collected Writings 1985-1999, was published in 2000 by les presses du réel. In 2002/03, he bought works of art as a specific project over the course of a year, later documented in Collection Diary (JRP/Ringier, 2004). A new collection of essays and interviews, Theft Is Vision (JRP/Ringier), was published in 2008. His writing has appeared in Afterall, Artforum, and Purple, and he has contributed to many books, monographs, and catalogues — including essays on Peter Hujar, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, On Kawara, Olivier Mosset, Yayoi Kusama, and Jules de Balincourt. His new book, Painting Abstraction, has just been published by Phaidon. Nickas's most recent project is a record label, From the Nursery. The first release, a full-length limited edition pressed on white vinyl, with original cover artwork by painter David Ratcliff, is the debut album from Orphan, a grunge metal duo from Brooklyn. The next releases are XXX Macareña, a trio comprised of Tony Conrad, Jutta Koether, and John Miller, which is in collaboration with Primary Information, and a 12-inch EP by the Melvins, with cover artwork by Steven Parrino.AMY OWEN
Amy Owen is Director of Exhibitions at Artists Space. She was previously Exhibitions Associate and Publications Coordinator at Independent Curators International (iCI). Recent curatorial projects include Facts on the Ground at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (2007) and Other Certainties at the New York Center for Art and Media Studies (2008). Owen received her MA in Curatorial Studies from Bard College.ERIC C. SHINER
Eric C. Shiner is the Milton Fine Curator of Art at The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh. His scholarly focus is on the concept of bodily transformation in postwar Japanese photography, painting and performance art. Shiner was an assistant curator of the Yokohama Triennale 2001, Japan's first ever large-scale exhibition of international contemporary art, and the curator of Making a Home: Japanese Contemporary Artists in New York at Japan Society in 2007. He is an active writer and translator, a contributing editor for Art AsiaPacific magazine, and was most recently adjunct professor of art history at Cooper Union, Pace University and Stony Brook University.
