Cornelia Butler

Cornelia H. "Connie" Butler (born 1 February 1963) is an American museum curator. She is currently Chief Curator at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles.[1] From 2006-2013, she served as the The Robert Lehman Foundation Chief Curator of Drawings at the Museum of Modern Art (New York City). Prior to that, she was a curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) from 1996-2005. Butler also held curatorial positions at the Neuberger Museum of Art (Purchase, New York), Artists Space (New York City), and the Des Moines Arts Center (Iowa).[2] Her multimedia exhibition WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution dealt with international feminist art of the 1970s.[3] Butler is a 1980 graduate of Marlborough School,[4] and a 1984 graduate of Scripps College.[5]

Exhibitions

2014: with Luis Pérez-Oramas, Lygia Clark: The Abandonment of Art, 1948-1988 [6]

2012-2013: Alina Szapocznikow: Sculpture Undone, 1955–1972 [7]

2010-2011: with Catherine de Zegher, On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century [8]

2010: with Klaus Biesenbach and Neville Wakefield, Greater New York [9]

2009: Paul Sietsema [10]

References

  1. "Connie Butler appointed as Chief Curator and Aram Moshayedi as Curator". Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  2. "Multiple Feminisms Lecture: Cornelia Butler". Kemper Art Museum. Washington University in St. Louis. March 20, 2011. Retrieved 3 August 2012.
  3. "About Cornelia (Connie) Butler". Stanford University. Retrieved 3 August 2012.
  4. "A well-drawn career" (PDF). The Ultra Violet (Marlborough School) 36 (6). May 5, 2006.
  5. "Notable Scripps Alumnae". Scripps College. Retrieved 3 August 2012.
  6. Smith, Roberta (May 15, 2014). "See Me. Feel Me. Maybe Drool on Me. Lygia Clark’s Many Twists and Turns, at MoMA". Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  7. "Alina Szapocznikow: Sculpture Undone, 1955–1972".
  8. Meltzer, Eve (September 2011). "On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century" (141).
  9. Smith, Roberta (May 27, 2010). "Take Me Out to the Big Show in Queens". The New York Times. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  10. Johnson, Ken (January 7, 2010). "Spirals of Self-Reflection, Made by Methods Mysterious". The New York Times. Retrieved 8 March 2015.