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Curriculum Vitae Anja Chávez Education Ph.D.
Art History, University of Bonn, Germany. 1994 Dissertation: Nicolas de Staël. Die späten Werke École Normale Supérieure, Paris. 1991-1992 Université de Paris - Sorbonne IV, Paris. 1991-1992
M.A.
Art History, University of Bonn, Germany. 1990
Employment 2008- present Curator of Contemporary Art at The Warehouse Gallery and SUArt Galleries, Syracuse University, NY 2003-08
Curator of Contemporary Art / Curator of Exhibitions, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, MA
2003
Interim Associate Curator of Exhibitions, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College
2001-02
Independent Curator
2000-01
Assistant Curator, Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
1996-2000
Curator of Collections, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA
1995-96
Curatorial Assistant, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich (Germany)
Curatorial Activities The Warehouse Gallery, Syracuse University Curator: Winter 2012 ecoarttech: wilderness 24/7. (Main Gallery/Window Projects) Fall 2012
Senga Nengudi. (Window Projects) Jeffrey Einhorn: Blue Suede
Spring 2012
Noriko Ambe: Inner Water. (Window Projects) Chaz Griffin: The History of Silence
Winter 2012 Deng Guo Yuan; (Window Projects) Elisabeth Meyer: Black Night/White Night Fall 2011
Colorfornia – New Forms in West Coast Street Art; (Window Projects) Oscar Garces
Spring 2011
Kueng Caputo: The Quadrangular Cloud. (Window Projects) Stephanie Rozene: The Politics of Porcelain
Winter 2011 Rigo23: Taté Wikikuwa Museum: North America, 2024; (Window Projects) Tom Huff: Oil is Why Fall 2010
Cui Fei: (Window Projects) Neil Chowdhury: Waking From Dreams of India.
Spring 2010
Jesse Stiles: Automatic Speleology
Winter 2010 Alyson Shotz: Drawing Through Space; (Window Projects) Lynette K Stephenson: This Confederacy of Dunces Fall 2009
Marco Maggi: American Ream; (Window Projects) Nathan Cordero: This is Not Site Specific
Summer 2009 Xiaowen Chen: Spectacle and Xiaowen Chen: 100 Last Names Spring 2009
Andrew Deutsch & Stephen Vitiello: Sound Scores: Paper, Wood and Glass; (Window Projects) Marion Wilson: Museum of the City of Lost and Found
Davis Museum and Cultural Center at Wellesley College Coordinating Curator: Fall 2008
Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body.
Spring 2006
On the Edge: Chinese Contemporary Artists Encounter the West.
Fall 2003
Two and One: Printmaking in Germany, 1945-1990
Curator: Spring 2006
Xu Bing: Any Opinions?
Fall 2005
Aaron Noble
Spring 2005
Ghada Amer: The Reign of Terror
Fall 2005
Valery Koshlyakov: The Clothing of Space
Fall 2004
Lawrence Weiner: PRIMARY SECONDARY TERTIARY
Fall 2004
Infinite Possibilities: Serial Imagery in 20th-Century Drawings
Spring 2004
Steve McQueen
University Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Guest Curator: Spring 2003
I Dreamt Your House was a Line: Pedro Cabrita Reis
Fitchburg Art Museum Guest-curator: Spring 2002
New England/New Talent: 6th Biennial Exhibition
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Curator: Spring 2001
Fifth Year 2001
Spring 2001
Traveling Scholars
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Curator: Winter 2001 Maud Morgan Prize Exhibition Winter 2001 Collection Highlights: Color-Field Painting Summer 2001 Collection Highlights: Contemporary 1970s-80s Fall 2000
Christian Boltanski: Reflexion
Fitchburg Art Museum Curator: 1999-2001 Founders of the Western World: The Greeks and the Romans 1999-2001 African, Aboriginal and Oceanic Art from the William Teel Collection 1999–2002 Asian and Oceanic Art from the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem 1999
Early American Modernism – Recent Acquisitions. Winter
1998
16tth-century Flemish Prints from the Collection. Fall
1998
Art and Society: European Prints from the Collection. Summer
1998
Depicting American: Thomas Hart Benton’s Works on Paper. Spring
1998
“Conway & Pratt Projects, Inc.” Excerpt from As a Dream That Vanishes: A Meditation on the Harvest of a Lifetime (Josh Dunbar Living Memorial). Fall
Coordinating Curator: 1997
Etruscan Splendors from Volterra in Tuscany. Winter
1997
Renewal and Metamorphosis: Russian Photographers from the Late Soviet Era to the 1990’s. Winter
Co-Curator: 1997
Emerging Image: Photographs by Massachusetts College of Art Graduates. Summer
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich (Germany) Curator: 1995-96
Ernst Geitlinger (1895–1972) (show traveled to Ingolstadt and Neu-Ulm)
Coordinating Curator: 1995-96
The Colorful Life: Vasily Kandinsky in the Lenbachhaus
1995
Mit dem Auge des Kindes (The Innocent Eye. Children’s Art and the Modern Artist), (show traveled to Kunstmuseum Bern), Summer
Acquisitions The Warehouse Gallery, Syracuse 2011
Kueng Caputo, Chairs. Donation by the artists
2009
Marco Maggi, HOTBED (ORANGE), site-specific installation and Ken Solomon/Marco Maggi, D-REAMS (2008), video. Donation by the artists
Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley 2008
Marco Maggi, Landmark, 2007, Pencil on clayboard. Donation
2006
K.P. Brehmer, An Example of Coming to Terms with the Past (Stamp Album Page with Hitler-Overprints[Beispiel einer Bewältigung der Vergangenheit (Albumblatt mit Hitlerüberdrucken)]), 1967/69, Plastic foil on wooden stretcher. Purchase
2006
Aaron Noble, Luna, 2005, Print. Purchase
2005
Valery Koshlyakov, Series: Dionysos Ikonos II, 2004, Postcard and acrylic on cardboard. Sculpture. Purchase
2004
Otto Piene, Sky Art (1969). Portfolio of 25 lithographs (Publisher: Tamarind Press, Los Angeles). Donation
2004
Manfred Butzmann, Postcard Selections, (1980-1995). Offset prints. Purchase
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 2001
Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons. Nesting IV (2000), polaroid. Purchase
2001
Shellburne Thurber, Abandoned Mill House: Room with fireplace and
disintegrating brick (1998), chromogenic print. Purchase Fitchburg Art Museum 1996-98 Oscar F. Bluemner. Buddha ‘Sunrise’ (1924), watercolor. Purchase Morgan Russell. Synchromy (Eidos), 1922-23, oil on canvas. Purchase Joseph Stella. Untitled (Palm and Sun), 1940, watercolor. Purchase Joseph Stella. Full Moon, Barbados, 1940, oil on canvas. Purchase Ambrose Webster. Cactus, 1925, oil/canvas. Donation Etruscan Bucchero pesante oinochoe, 550 B.C. Donation
Teaching 2006
Text and Image in Contemporary Art, Visiting Lecturer, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
2003
Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and Van Gogh, Art Institute of Boston, Boston.
2001-2 Fifth Year Seminar, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 2001
Guest lecture, Transition or Rupture: German Art of the 1980s and 1990s, German Department, Wellesley College, November
Grant Writing, Support and Awards 2012
Central New York Community Foundation support for the publication of the gallery guide #19 ecoarttech: wilderness 24/7 Visual and Performance Arts (VPA) at Syracuse University, funds for the 2012-2013 exhibitions Pro Helvetia-Swiss Arts Council support for Kueng Caputo: The Quadrangular Cloud; Department of Design, Syracuse University support for Kueng Caputo
2011
Visual and Performance Arts (VPA) at Syracuse University, funds for exhibition Colorfornia: New Forms in West Coast Street Art Private donors, funds for artist-in-residence program
2010
Syracuse University Humanities Center, the Native American Studies Program; PAL Project; and the Community Folk Art Center funds for Rigo 23: Taté Wikikuwa Museum: North America: 2024 Private donor, funds for Rigo 23: Taté Wikikuwa Museum: North America: 2024
2009
Private donor, funds for Alyson Shotz: Drawing Through Space Marco Maggi’s Hotbed (Orange) donated
2007
Marco Maggi’s Landmark (2007) purchased through private funds (donor)
2006
Private donor, funds for Xu Bing’s Any Questions?
2006-7 Xu Bing: Any Questions? 1st prize for the Best Installation or Single Work of Art in a Museum (New England) International Art Critics Association 2005
Davis Fund for Russian Studies for exhibition by Valery Koshlyakov
2004
British Council funds for exhibition by Steve McQueen
2004-5 Steve McQueen. 2nd prize for the best monographic show, International Art Critics Association 2003
Goethe Institute (Boston), funds in support of German Experimental Film Series
1999
Museum Loan Network (Implementation Grant) to research, exhibit and display works of art from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Harvard University Art Museums, and the Peabody Museum
Select Publications Catalogs •
Sculpture Today: A Conversation with Alyson Shotz, exhibition catalog with an essay by Katie Stone Sonneborn. Derek Eller Gallery: New York 2009, pp. 63-69
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“Introduction,” Infinite Possibilities: Serial Imagery in 20th Century Drawings. Wellesley: Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, 2004, VIII-X
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“Interview with René Block / Interview mit René Block,” Two and One: Printmaking in Germany, 1945-1990/Druckgrafik in Deutschland (1945-1990). Wellesley: Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, 2003, 79-81; 169-172
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Two and One: Printmaking in Germany, 1945-1990/Druckgrafik in Deutschland (1945-1990). Edited by Anja Chávez. Wellesley: Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, 2003
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“The Program.” Fifth-Year 2001. Boston: School of the Museum of Fine Arts
2001 •
The Colorful Life: Vasily Kandinsky in the Lenbachhaus. Edited by Anja Chávez
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Mit dem Auge des Kindes (The Innocent Eye. Children’s Art and the Modern Artist). Edited by Anja Chávez.
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“Zur divergenten Bildsprache Ernst Geitlingers.” Ernst Geitlinger (1895-1972). Munich: Lenbachhaus, 1995, pp. 49–53
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Ernst Geitlinger (1895–1972) (1995-1996 Munich, Ingolstadt, Neu-Ulm). Edited by Anja Chávez. Munich: Lenbachhaus, 1995
Curatorial Essays 2012
“The Body as Resource” (Gallery Guide #18).n.p. The Warehouse Gallery: Syracuse “A Void: Noriko Ambe’s Inner Water” (Gallery Guide #17). n.p. The Warehouse Gallery: Syracuse
2011
“Deng Guo Yuan: Ink Painting in the 21st Century” (Gallery Guide #16), n.p. The Warehouse Gallery: Syracuse “The Persistent Power of Art” (Gallery Guide#15), n.p. The Warehouse Gallery: Syracuse “Smart, Functional, Aesthetically Engaging, and Funny: Kueng Caputo’s Quadrangular Cloud” (Gallery Guide #14), n.p. The Warehouse Gallery: Syracuse
2010
“Hosting/Becoming an Imaginary Museum,” in Rigo 23: Taté Wikikuwa Museum: North America, 2024 (Gallery Guide #13), n.p. The Warehouse Gallery: Syracuse “Tracing the Origin,” in Cui Fei (Gallery Guide #12), n.p. The Warehouse Gallery: Syracuse “Automatic Performance,” in Jesse Stiles: Automatic Speleology (Gallery Guide #11), n.p. The Warehouse Gallery: Syracuse
2009
“Technology and the Handmade,” Alyson Shotz: Drawing Through Space (Gallery Guide #10), n.p. The Warehouse Gallery: Syracuse “Reading with No Hope of Being Informed, in Marco Maggi: American Ream (Gallery Guide #9), n.p. The Warehouse Gallery: Syracuse
“Between East and West,” in Xiaowen Chen: Spectacle and Xiaowen Chen: 100 Last Names (Gallery Guide #8), n.p. The Warehouse Gallery: Syracuse “Interview with Andrew Deutsch and Stephen Vitiello,” in Andrew Deutsch & Stephen Vitiello: Sound Scores: Paper, Wood, Stone and Glass (Gallery Guide #7), n.p. The Warehouse Gallery: Syracuse.
Articles and Contributions 2008
“Sculpture Today: A Conversation with Alyson Shotz,” in Sculpture Magazine (November), vol. 27. No. 9, pp. 24–29.
2005
“Broodthaers - Boltanski - Huyghe. Referential Strategies and the Absent Artist,” in L'Art Français et Francophone depuis 1980: Contemporary French and Francophone Art. Edited by M. Bishop and C. Elson (Amsterdam/New York, NY: Editions Rodopi (Faux Titre 269), pp. 141-152.
2006
“A Dialogue with Carsten Höller: Architecture.” In A Sculpture Reader: Contemporary Sculpture since 1980. G. Harper and T. Moyer (Eds.) with an introduction by K. Wilkin, Seattle: University of Washington Press, pp. 202-209.
2003
“A Dialogue with Carsten Höller: Architecture.” Sculpture Magazine (March), vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 35-41.
2001
“Traveling Scholars,” Preview MFA Boston, p. 5
2001
“2000 Maud Morgan Prize.” Preview MFA Boston, p. 18
2000
“Collection Highlights: Color-Field Painting.” Preview MFA Boston, p. 9
1999
“Loans as Textbooks.” Museum Loan Network News 1998–99. Cambridge: MIT, p.12
1996
Nicolas de Staël. Die späten Werke. Weimar (Thüringen): Verlag und Datenbank für Geisteswissenschaften.
Lectures and Presentations Forthcoming: 2013 (April 14-16) Addressing Diversity in 21st-Century Nonprofits: Engaging New Audiences through Art Exhibitions and Programs (Chair/Lead Facilitator Panel Discussion during New York State’s Museums in Conversation. Conference. Syracuse, NY) 2012
“Disaster, Memory, and Art Making.” Organizer and moderator, round-table
discussion. (March) 2011
“The Role of the University Museum in the 21st Century: The Warehouse Gallery at Syracuse University.” Taipei Contemporary Art Center, (June)
2010
“Installation Art.” Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing (June)
2008
“A Conversation with Alyson Shotz, “New York ArtTable (June) “A Conversation with Tseng Yu-Chin,” Location One, NY (June)
2007
“The Role of New Media.” Presentation at International Opportunities in the Arts Conference (TransCultural Exchange), Boston (April)
2005
“Christo and Jean-Claude’s The Gates, Project for Central Park, New York City, for DMCC’s Friends of Art, New York City (February) “The 54th Carnegie International,” Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh for DMCC’s Friends of Art, Pittsburgh, PA (March)
2004
“A Conversation with Steve McQueen” Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA (March)
2002
Contemporary Art in New England, Chair, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA (April)
2001
“Traveling Scholars, a Conversation with Omer Fast and Naoko Osakada, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Broodthaers - Boltanski - Huyghe. Referential Strategies and the Absent Artist, International Colloquium on Art in France and the Francophone World since 1980. University of Dalhousie, September
Professional Affiliations 2004-present
Member of ArtTable
1997-present
College Art Association
1996-present
American Association of Museums
2008-11
Board member, TransCulturalExchange, Boston
Other Professional Activities 2012
Juror, Philip Abel Purchase Prize, Hamilton College, May
2011
Curatorial residency. Bamboo Culture International, Taipei, Taiwan. Summer
2010
Curatorial residency. Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China. Summer
2010
Visiting critic and Lecturer. Cazenovia College, Cazenovia, NY, April
2009
Juror, Syracuse Arts and Crafts Festival, July Portfolio reviewer. Transmedia Studies, Syracuse University, October Portfolio reviewer. Transcultural Exchange, Boston, MA, February
2008
Visiting curator/critic. Invitation from the Director of Cultural Services, Délégation générale du Québec to Montreal, Canada. Spring Guest-curator. Location One, New York, January Portfolio reviewer. Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA, May
2007
Juror, Cambridge Arts Council, Cambridge, November
2005
Visiting Critic, Boston University, 2005
2004
Visiting Critic, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston
2001
Visiting Critic, Rhode Island School of Design Juror, Helen Blair Sculpture Award, Massachusetts College of Art Juror, ARTSWORCESTER Biennial, Worcester, MA Visiting Critic, School of the Museum of Fine Arts
2000-1 Fifth Year Coordinator, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 2000
Boltanski − public discussion with the artist, Museum of Fine Art, Boston. Fall
1998
Visiting Critic, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth