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Julia Bryan-Wilson is the Doris and Clarence Malo Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at the University of California, Berkeley.[1] She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2019.[2]

Career

Bryan-Wilson received her BA from Swarthmore College in 1995 and her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 2004. In addition to teaching at the University of California, Berkeley, Bryan-Wilson has also taught at the Rhode Island School of Design, California College of the Arts, the University of California, Irvine, and at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. She also served as one of the Robert Sterling Clark Professors in the Graduate Art History department at Williams College from 2018 to 2019.[3]

Bryan-Wilson studies feminist and queer theory, modern and contemporary art, craft histories, and questions of artistic labor, as well as photography, video, collaborative practices, and visual culture of the Atomic Age.[4]

Her book, Art Workers: Radical Practice in the Vietnam War Era, was published by the University of California Press in 2009.[5] Her second book, Fray: Art and Textile Politics, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2017[6] and was awarded the 2018 Robert Motherwell Book Award by the Dedalus Foundation.[7] Fray was also awarded the Book Prize from The Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (or ASAP).[8] Bryan-Wilson's article, "Invisible Products," published in the Summer 2012 issue of Art Journal, received the 2013 Art Journal Award for Outstanding Article of the Year from the College Art Association.[9]

She is the editor of Robert Morris (October Files),[10] published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2013. With Glenn Adamson, Byran-Wilson is also the co-author of Art in the Making: Artists and their Materials from the Studio to Crowdsourcing (1st Edition),[11] published by Thames & Hudson in June 2016.

Bryan-Wilson is co-curator of Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen[12] at the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans in 2017.[13] The show traveled to the Institute for Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania in February 2019.[14]

Publications

  • Bryan-Wilson, Julia (2011). Art Workers: Radical Practice in the Vietnam War Era. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-25728-3. OCLC 313018234.
  • Bryan-Wilson, Julia (2017). Fray: Art + Textile Politics. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-07781-9. OCLC 967727523.

References

  1. ^ "Julia Bryan-Wilson". History of Art Department, University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved 2020-10-05.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. ^ "Guggenheim Foundation Names 2019 Fellows". Artforum. 2019-04-11. Retrieved 2020-10-05.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. ^ "Julia Bryan-Wilson and Mel Chen to serve jointly as Robert Sterling Clark Professors for 2018-2019 | Grad Art". gradart.williams.edu. Retrieved 2018-10-18.
  4. ^ "Julia Bryan-Wilson Professor - UC Berkeley History of Art Department". Arthistory.berkeley.edu. 2000-01-25. Retrieved 2014-02-01.
  5. ^ "Art Workers - Julia Bryan-Wilson - Paperback - University of California Press". Ucpress.edu. Retrieved 2014-02-01.
  6. ^ Fray.
  7. ^ "Professor Julia Bryan-Wilson receives the 2018 Robert Motherwell Book Award". UC Berkeley Library Update. 2018-06-12. Retrieved 2018-10-18.
  8. ^ "Announcing the ASAP Book Prize Winner". www.artsofthepresent.org. Retrieved 2018-10-25.
  9. ^ "Art Journal Award - Art Journal Open". Art Journal Open. Retrieved 2018-10-25.
  10. ^ https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/robert-morris
  11. ^ http://www.thamesandhudsonusa.com/books/art-in-the-making-artists-and-their-materials-from-the-studio-to-crowdsourcing-hardcover
  12. ^ http://cacno.org/exhibitions/abouttohappen
  13. ^ "Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen | Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans". cacno.org. Retrieved 2017-07-01.
  14. ^ "Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen - ICA Philadelphia". icaphila.org. Retrieved 2018-11-08.
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