University Director

S UMMARY RESUME

J OSEPH D. KETNER II

The Henry and Lois Foster Chair in Contemporary Art, Distinguished Curator-in-Residence

Emerson College

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Boston, MA 02116

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EDUCATION

-Certificate in Museum Management, 1997. J. Paul Getty Leadership Institute for Museum

Management, Museum Management Institute. University of California, Berkeley.

-M.A. 1980 History of Art, Indiana University, Bloomington (1977-1980).

-B.A. 1977, Indiana University, Bloomington. Major in Art History.

PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS

-The Henry and Lois Foster Chair in Contemporary Art, Distinguished Curator-in-Residence,

Emerson College, Boston (9/08-present).

-Chief Curator, Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin (6/05-8/08).

-The Henry and Lois Foster Director, The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, MA (9/98-5/05).

-Director (4/89-7/98), Curator (10/82-4/89), Washington University Gallery of Art, St. Louis.

-Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Art History, Washington University, St. Louis (1995-8).

-Curator, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Indiana (10/79-10/82).

A WARDS, APPOINTMENTS, AND DISTINCTIONS

-Research Visit Grant to Germany, Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD), 2011

- Research Fellow, Zero Foundation, D sseldorf, 2010

- Research Scholarship Grant to Germany, Gerda Henkel Stiftung, D sseldorf, 2010

- Art History Fellowship Committee, American Council of Learned Societies, Luce Foundation, 2010-12

-Merit Award, HOW Magazine Design Awards, 2010 for Act / React: Interactive Installation Art

(Milwaukee Art Museum, 2008). Curated by George Fifield. Organized by Joseph Ketner.

-Best Gallery Show of 2008, Boston Globe, for Erwin Redl FADE: A Light Installation (Emerson

College, Boston, 2008)

-Curatorial Research Grant, Etant donn s, AFFA, Paris 2007

-General Services Administration, Arts in Architecture Peer Reviewer, 2006-

-Luce Visiting Scholars Fellowships, Luce Foundation, Brandeis University, 2003-2006

-Best Monographic Museum Show in 2002, International Association of Art Critics, Boston Chapter, for

Roxy Paine: Second Nature (The Rose Art Museum, 2002)

-First Prize, Exhibition Catalogue, 1997, American Association of Museums for Art & Science:

Investigating Matter, Photographs by Catherine Wagner (Washington University Gallery of Art)

-Second Prize, Museum Book, 1995, American Association of Museums for A Gallery of Modern Art

-Outstanding Academic Book for 1994, Choice magazine (American Library Association) for The

Emergence of the African-American Artist: Robert S. Duncanson, 1821-1872

-Accreditation Visiting Committee Member, American Association of Museums, 1994-2012

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EXHIBITIONS AND ART PROJECTS CURATED OR ORGANIZED

Jackson Pollock s Mural in American Art (2015-16). Organize international tour for the University of Iowa

Art Museum. Curator, David Anfam.

Alexander Dorner: Art and Consequences. Documentary film on Weimar period German museum director,

who actively promoted modern art and was forced into exile during the National Socialist period. Peter

Frumkin, director; Ines Katenhusen, Leibniz University Hanover, and Joseph Ketner, Emerson College,

executive producers. Forthcoming, 2014.

Image Machine: Andy Warhol and Photography (2012-2013). The Cincinnati Center of Contemporary Art;

The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University.

Robert S. Duncanson: Ante-bellum African American Artist. (September December 2012). Ira Wallach Art

Gallery, Columbia University, New York.

Yoon Lee, Confluence, Mirrored/John Powell, Text Walk, 2012. (May 12, 2012-). 300-foot long digital

mural by Yoon Lee and interactive light/text installation by John Powell, Emerson College, Boston.

Paramount Urban Screen: Jim Campbell, John Craig Freeman, Brian Knep, Bruce Pearson, John Powell

and Erwin Redl (October 2011-May 2012). 3-story LED Wall, Washington St., Emerson College, Boston.

Experimental Television (October 3-December 2, 2011, March 2-April 20, 2012), Emerson College, Boston.

Aldo Tambellini: Black Zero (October 1- November 1, 2011). Chelsea Museum, New York.

Otto Piene: Proliferation of the Sun, 1967. June 18, 2011, Moderna Museet, Stockholm; September 18,

2010, Zero Foundation, D sseldorf. Assist artist with hand-painted slide projection performance.

Otto Piene, Sky Art Event, May 7, 2011. M.I.T. 150th Anniversary Celebration, organized by M.I.T.

Museum. On collaborative team to produce Sky Art event.

Robert S. Duncanson: The Spiritual Striving of the Freedmen s Sons (May 1 October 30, 2011).

Thomas Cole Historic House, Catskill, New York.

Aldo Tambellini: The Black Films. (February 18 April 15, 2011) Emerson College, Boston.

Bruce Conner: Apparitions. (October 8 November 19, 2010). Emerson College, Boston.

William Kentridge and Robin Rhode. (October 2 December 11, 2009). Emerson College, Boston.

Andy Warhol: The Last Decade. Milwaukee Art Museum (September 26, 2009 January 3, 2010); the

Museum of Modern Art, Fort Worth (February 15 May 15, 2010), the Brooklyn Museum (June 19

September 12, 2010), and the Baltimore Museum of Art (October 17, 2010 January 9, 2011).

Act / React: Interactive Installation Art (October 4, 2008 January 11, 2009). Milwaukee Art Museum.

Curated by George Fifield. Organized and coordinated by Joseph Ketner.

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Erwin Redl FADE: A Light Installation (September 26-November 30, 2008). Emerson College, Boston.

Elusive Signs: Bruce Nauman Works with Light. Milwaukee Art Museum (2006-8). Indianapolis

Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami; Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington;

Musee d'art contemporain, Montreal; Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; San Diego Museum of

Contemporary Art.

Yun-fei Ji: The Empty Cities. Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis (1-3/04); Pierogi 2000, Brooklyn,

New York (5-6/04); Curated exhibit for The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University (9-12/04).

Co-Existence: Contemporary Cultural Production in South Africa. The Rose Art Museum (1-6/03);

South Africa National Gallery (SANG), Cape Town (9-12/03); Co-curated by Pamela Allara, Brandeis

University, Marilyn Martin, Director, Iziko Museums of South Africa.

Roxy Paine: Second Nature. The Rose Art Museum (4-6/02); Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston

(10/02-1/03); SITE Santa Fe, NM (4-7/03). De Pont Foundation of Contemporary Art, Tilburg, The

Netherlands (9-12/03). Co-curated with Lynn Herbert, CAMH.

Stephen Antonakos: Time Boxes 2000, with Richard Artschwager, Daniel Buren, Sol LeWitt, and Robert

Ryman. The Rose Art Museum (1-3/00).

Bruce Pearson: A New Visual Language. The Rose Art Museum (8-10/99); Gallery of Art, Johnson

County Community College, Overland Park, KS (11-12/99).

The Dual Muse: The Writer as Artist, the Artist as Writer. Washington University Gallery of Art (11-

12/97). Organized exhibit, curated by William Gass and Cornelia Homburg, Washington University.

Art & Science: Investigating Matter, Photographs by Catherine Wagner. Washington University Gallery

of Art (9-11/96); International Center of Photography, New York (3-6/97); University Art Museum,

California State, Long Beach (11-12/97). Organized exhibit, curated by Cornelia Homburg.

Lifting the Veil: Robert S. Duncanson. Cincinnati Art Museum/Taft Museum, Cincinnati (9-11/95);

Washington University Gallery of Art (1-3/96); Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX (4-6/96); Clark

Atlanta University Art Gallery (6-9/96), as part of Atlanta Olympic Games.

Bruce Nauman: Light Works. Washington University Gallery of Art (1/29 3/21/93).

The Crossing of Borders and the Creation of Worlds: The Art of Howard Jones. Washington University

Gallery of Art (10/93). Catalogue with essay by Professor Udo Kultermann.

Newton Harrison and Helen Mayer Harrison. Washington University Gallery of Art (1-3/92).

The Columbus of the Woods: Daniel Boone and the Myth of Manifest Destiny. Washington University

Gallery of Art (1-3/92). Organized exhibit, curated by J. Gray Sweeney.

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Carl F. Wimar (1828-1862): Chronicler of the Missouri River Frontier. Washington University Gallery

of Art (1-3/91); Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth (4-8/91).

Architectural Ceramics: Eight Concepts. Washington University Gallery of Art (3-4/85); American

Craft Museum, New York (5-8/85). Curated by Michael Rubin.

Jean Dubuffet: Forty Years of His Art. David and Alfred Smart Gallery, University of Chicago (10-

12/84); Washington University Gallery of Art (1-3/85).

The Beautiful, the Sublime, and the Picturesque: British Influences on American Landscape Painting.

Washington University Gallery of Art (2-4/84).

Photographs by Photorealists. Fort Wayne Museum of Art (1/82); Cleveland Museum of Art (2/82).

Hartigan: Thirty Years of Painting, 1950-1980. Fort Wayne Museum of Art (2-3/81); Georgia Museum

of Art, Athens (3-4/81); and the Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina (5-7/81).

PUBLICATIONS: Books, Catalogs, Essays and Articles

Zero and the New Artistic Conception in Postwar European Art. In progress.

Andy Warhol. Focus Series. London: Phaidon Press Limited, 2013.

Image Machine: Andy Warhol and Photography. Exhibition catalogue. N rnberg: Verlag f r moderne

Kunst, 2012.

Against the Mainstream: Howard Wise and the New Artistic Conception of the 1960s, in Howard Wise:

Exploring the New. Exhibition catalogue. Berlin: Moeller Fine Art, 2012.

Struggles, many and great, Antiques, v. CLXXVIII, no. 6 (November 2011), pp. 108-115.

Electromedia, in Aldo Tambellini: Black Zero. Exhibition catalogue. Chelsea Museum. New York: The

Boris Lurie Foundation, 2011), pp. 35-47.

Robert S. Duncanson: The Spiritual Striving of the Freedmen s Sons. Exhibition catalogue. New York:

Thomas Cole Historic House, 2011.

Mackazine, in Heinz Mack s Mackazine II, with additional text by Dieter Honisch. Exhibition catalogue.

New York: Sperone Westwater Gallery, 2011.

"Otto Piene: Sky and Beyond," Art New England, 31, 3 (April/May 2010), pp. 7-9.

Andy Warhol: The Last Decade. With essays by Bruno Bischofberger, Keith Haring, Keith Hartley,

Julian Schnabel and Gregory Volk. Exhibition catalogue. Munich, New York: Prestel Verlag, 2009.

Elusive Signs: Bruce Nauman Works with: Light. Additional essays by Janet Kraynak and Gregory

Volk. Exhibition catalogue. Milwaukee, WI: Milwaukee Art Museum, 2006.

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Roxy Paine: Second Nature. Exhibition catalogue. Houston: Museum of Contemporary Art and The

Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, 2002. Additional essays by Gregory Volk and Lynn Herbert.

Helmut and Inge Krumbach and Joseph D. Ketner. Der Siegburger Indianermaler Carl Wimar (1828-

1862). Siegburg, Germany: Rheinlandia Verlag, 2000.

A Gallery of Modern Art at Washington University in St. Louis. St. Louis: Washington University

Gallery of Art, 1994.

The Emergence of the African-American Artist: Robert S. Duncanson, 1821-1872. Columbia, Missouri:

The University of Missouri Press, 1993.

"Daniel Boone as Icon: The Columbus of the Woods," Chronicle of Higher Education (4 March 1992):

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Rick Stewart, Joseph D. Ketner, and Angela Miller. Carl F. Wimar: Chronicler of the Missouri River

Frontier. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum in association with Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1991.

"An African-American in Paris," Journal of Art (Rizzolli) 4, no. 2 (February 1991): 18.

Joseph D. Ketner and Michael J. Tammenga. The Beautiful, The Sublime, and The Picturesque: British

Influences on American Landscape Painting. St. Louis: Washington University Gallery of Art, 1984.

"Robert S. Duncanson (1821-1972): The Late Literary Landscape Paintings," The American Art Journal

XV, no. 1 (Winter 1983): 35-47.

The Continuing Search of Grace Hartigan." Artnews 80, no. 2 (February 1981): 128-129.

PUBLIC LECTURES AND CONFERENCES

An Enclave of African American Artists in Antebellum Cincinnati: James P. Ball and Robert S.

Duncanson, September 13, 2012. Ira Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York.

The Light Paints: Otto Piene and the Problem of Painting in Postwar European Art, November 17,

2011. The List Center for the Visual Arts, MIT.

TV in Postwar German Art (April 28, 2011). Goethe Institut, Boston. Symposium, RECORD>AGAIN!

40 Years of Video Art in Germany, Part 2, with Judith Barry, Ute Meta Bauer, and Gregory Williams.

Jackson Pollock s Mural (April 1, 2011). University of Iowa Museum of Art, Collector s Circle lecture.

From the Avant-garde to Pop: Otto Piene, Aldo Tambellini, and Andy Warhol s Multi-Media

Installations. Leopold Hoesch Museum, D ren, Deutschland, 7/21/10; International Kepes Society,

International Symposium, Reflections/Refractions, Pecs, Hungary, 7/30/10.

Who is Andy Warhol? Lecture, Milwaukee Art Museum, 9/23/09; Museum of Modern Art, Fort Worth,

2/9/10; Brooklyn Museum, 6/19/10; Baltimore Museum of Art, 10/15/10.

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Zero: Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration. Symposium at Milwaukee Art Museum, 3/22/08. Organized and

moderated symposium on German Art group, Zero, with Heinz Mack, Otto Piene, and Udo Kultermann.

Visiting Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholars Chair, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, 3/2007.

Elusive Signs: Bruce Nauman Works with Light. Museum of Contemporary Art, N. Miami, 10/14/06.

Fictions: New Narratives in Contemporary Photography. The Burke Distinguished Alumni Lecture,

Indiana University, Bloomington, 10/22/02.

A Defining Generation: Then and Now, 1961-2001. Symposium to inaugurate the Lois Foster Wing at

The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University with Al Held, Sam Hunter, James Rosenquist (9/01).

What is Modern Art? Collegiate School (New York City) Second Annual Colloquium, Keynote

Address, 2/9/01. Colloquium with Maxwell Anderson, Amy Newman, and Frank Stella.

The Spiritual Striving of the Freedmen s Son: Robert S. Duncanson. Lecture. Thomas Cole House,

Catskill, NY 4/11; Taft Museum, Cincinnati 10/04; National Gallery, Canada, 2/97; Clark Atlanta

University, 9/96; Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, 4/96; Cincinnati Art Museum, 9/95; Saint Louis

Art Museum, 2/94; Mercantile Library, St. Louis, 11/93; Webster University, St. Louis, 2/93.

Revolution to Renaissance: African-American Art from 1776-1920. Symposium, Washington University,

3/96, with Steven Jones, independent historian; Juanita Holland, University of Maryland; Theresa

Leininger-Miller, University of Cincinnati; Judith Wilson, Yale University.

Carl Wimar's Missouri River Expeditions (3/6/91), The St. Louis Mercantile Library.

The Saint Louis Art Museum. Lecture Abduction, Rape, and Redemption on the American Frontier:

Carl F. Wimar's Abduction of Daniel Boone's Daughter (1853), (11/30/88).

Cincinnati Art Museum. Symposium, Robert S. Duncanson, with Lynda Hartigan, National Museum of

American Art, and James O. Horton, George Washington University (4/23/88).

Midwest Art History Society. Thomas Cole's Aqueducts Near Rome (1832), in session, Important

Recent Acquisitions of Midwest Museums. Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota (4/8/88).

American Culture Association. Robert S. Duncanson and Landscape Painting in Canada, in session, Art

in Canada and the U.S.A. Montreal, Canada (3/26/87).

The Taft Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio. The Belmont Murals of Robert Duncanson, to inaugurate the

Connoisseurs Series at the Taft Museum (2/4/86).

Midwest Art History Society. Robert S. Duncanson, in session, American Art, Vernacular and Elite.

University of Iowa, Iowa City (3/31-4/2/83).

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