CATHERINE LORD
Professor (MFA in Photography/Visual Studies
Workshop
Program 1983, State University of New York at Buffalo),
is also Core
Faculty member in the Program in Women's Studies. She
is a writer,
artist, and curator whose work addresses issues of cultural
politics,
including disability, queer identities and feminism,
cultural
politics, and colonialism. Before joining UCI, She was
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 from 1990-1995 and was Director of the UCI Gallery
from 1991-1996.
Her critical essays and fiction have been published
in Afterimage; Art
& Text; Artcoast; New Art Examiner; Whitewalls;
Framework; Documents;
X-Tra; Radical Teacher; GLQ; Trepan; Art Journal and
Art Paper. Her
work is also included 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, 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: Philippine
Diaspora in
Contemporary Visual Art. Her work as a visual artist
was included in
the 1995 exhibition Longing and Belonging, Site Santa
Fe. Her book,
The Summer of Her Baldness, the script of an involuntary
cyber
performance occasioned by a diagnosis of breast cancer,
is forthcoming
from the University of Texas Press. She has received
fellowships and
awards from the New York State Council on the Arts;
the Humanities
Research Institute of the University of California;
the Royal Botanic
Gardens at Kew; the Norton Family Foundation; the Andy
Warhol
Foundation; the Banff Centre for the Arts; Creative
Capital; and the
Rockefeller Center for Arts and Humanities at Bellagio.
She was also
the recipient of the Frank Jewett Mather Award for Art
Criticism from
the College Art Association. She is currently working
on a text/image
book titled, The Effect of Tropical Light on White Men.
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