Jenni Sorkin (PhD candidate in the History of Art Department at Yale University) will speak about the exhibition, Dark Continents, and related ideas.
Jenni Sorkin is a PhD candidate in the History of Art Department at Yale University. She is a 2008-2009 American Council of Learned Studies/Luce
Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellow. She was the 2004 recipient of the Art Journal
Award and a 2007 graduate research grant from the Center for Craft, Creativity
and Design at the University of North Carolina, Hendersonville. Her writing has
appeared in the New Art Examiner, Art Monthly, NU: The Nordic Art Review, Modern
Painters, and Third Text. She writes regularly for Frieze magazine, and has been
a visiting critic at Ohio University, The Yale School of Art, and the School of
Visual Arts. From 2002-2004, she was the Research and Project Coordinator for
WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, originating at LA MOCA in 2007. Recent
publications include contributions to exhibition catalogs for the Fashion in
Film Festival (London, 2008), the Ceramics Research Center at the Arizona State
University Museum (Tempe, 2009), the Textile Museum of Canada (Toronto, 2008)
and the journal Critical Matrix: The Princeton Journal of Women, Gender, and
Culture.
