JULI CARSON

Assistant Professor (PhD, 2000, MIT) is Director of the University Art Gallery, professor of MFA Critical and Curatorial Concentration, and an art historian of 20th Century American and European art.

Juli Carson is an art historian, art critic, and curator.  Since 2004 she is assistant professor in the Department of Studio Art where she teaches art theory and criticism.  She is also director of UCI’s University Art Gallery and Room Gallery, each of which hosts an annual rotation of professional and student shows.  (www.ucigallery.com) Carson also curates thematic exhibitions on contemporary art that travel internationally.  Her most recent exhibition is: Exile of the Imaginary: Aesthetics / Politics / Love hosted by the Generali Foundation in Vienna.  (http://foundation.generali.at/index.php?id=2&L=1).  She is also curator of the Room Gallery’s Emerging Artist Series, for which a single installation by a young artist is commissioned. Past contributors include: Florian Pumhösl, Adria Julia, Shana Lutker, Sharon Hayes, and Stephanie Taylor.  It is the mission of the UAG and Room Gallery to produce intellectually rigorous catalogues and brochures for each professional exhibition, serving a combined local, national, and international audience. 

Prior to joining UCI, Carson was director of Gracie Mansion Gallery from 1988-1990.  Her past curatorial projects include: Excavating Post-Partum Document: Mary Kelly’s Archive (1968-1998), Generali Foundation, Vienna (1998); Quincentenary Recollections/Resistance/Reconstructions, Hillwood Art Museum, Long Island University at C.W. Post (1993). The Auto-Erotic Object, Hunter College Art Gallery, New York City (1992); and Notes on the Margin: A Framework in Focus, Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York City (1990).

Carson’s academic research focuses on the effect that legacies of 1960s Minimalism and 1970s Conceptualism has had on a branch of contemporary art production informed by psychoanalysis. Her art criticism is widely published. She is editor of Exile of the Imaginary: Aesthetics / Politics / Love (Vienna: Generali Foundation and Walther König Press, 2007) and Paradox and Practice: Architecture in the Wake of Conceptualism (Irvine: UCI University Art Gallery, 2007). She is currently an editor of the art magazine artUS.  Her essays have appeared in scholarly anthologies as well as in Art Journal, Texte zur Kunst, Documents and October. At present she is completing a book entitled: The Conceptual Unconscious: A Poetics of Critique on contemporary critical aesthetics.

Books, book chapters, catalogue essays, and journal articles include: 

  • Exile of the Imaginary: Aesthetic, Politics, Love, (Vienna, Generali Foundation, 2007)
  • Paradox and Practice: Architecture in the Wake of Conceptualism, (Irvine: University Art
  • Gallery, 2007).
  • Ken Gonzales-Day’s Lynching in the West, (NY: Cue Art Foundation, 2006).
  • “The Jouissance of Institutional Critique,” in Institutional Critique and After, ed. John
  • Welchman, (Spring 2006).
  • “On Discourse as Monument: Institutional Spaces and Feminist Problematics,” in Museums
  • After Modernism: Strategies of Engagement, ed. Griselda Pollock, (New York:
  • Blackwell Press, 2005).
  • “Atrocity and Empathy: On Reading Virilio through Eisenman,” in artUS, (#10, Fall 2005). “Five Paragraphs on Sol LeWitt,” in artUS, (#8, Spring, 2005); “The Trouble with Fanon,” in
  • Minority Report: Challenging Intolerance in Contemporary Denmark, (Aarhus
  • Festival of Contemporary Art, Denmark, 2004).
  • “A Minimal Future? Art as Object 1958-1968,” www.collegeart.org, (Summer, 2004).
  • “Dematerialisms: The  Non-Dialectics of Yves Klein,” in Francois Perrin, Curator, Air
  • Architecture, (Los Angeles: MAK Center, 2004).
  • “1989” in Theory in Contemporary Art Since 1985, eds. Simon Leung et. al., (New York:
  • Blackwell Press, 2004).
  • “Two Walls: 1989,” Surface Tension, eds. Brandon Labelle, et. al., (Los Angeles: Errant
  • Bodies Press, 2003).
  • “On Critics, Sublimation and the Drive: The Photographic Paradoxes of the Subject,” in Art:
  • Sublimation or Symptom, ed. Parveen Adams, (New York: The Other Press, 2003).
  • “Conceptualism and the Single Work of Art,” Art Journal, (Winter 2002).
  • “A Conversation with Simon Leung,” in Proposal for the Side of the Mountain, (Los
  • Angeles, Santa Monica Museum of Art, 2002).
  • “On Discourse as Monument: The New Museum and Feminist Problematics,” in Alternative
  • Art New York,1965-85, ed. Julie Ault, (Minnesota Press, 2002).
  • “Why this Return Now?” Documents, (Spring, 2000).
  • “Mea Culpa,” Art Journal, (Winter, 1999).
  • “Excavating Post-Partum Document: A Conversation between Mary Kelly and Juli Carson,”
  • Exhibition Catalogue, (Vienna: Generali Foundation,1999).
  • “Re-Viewing Mary Kelly’s Post-Partum Document,” Documents, no. 13 (Fall, 1998). "Artforum-ismus," Texte Zur Kunst, (August, 1996).
  • "Questions of Feminism: 25 Responses," October  #71 (Winter 1995).
  • "Letter to the Editors," October  #71, (Winter 1995).

 


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