Valerie Cassel Oliver
Valerie Cassel Oliver is senior curator at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH) in Texas.
Oliver grew up in Houston, then attended the University of Texas at Austin and graduate school at Howard University.[1] She worked for National Endowment for the Arts from 1988 to 1995, then at School of the Art Institute of Chicago for five years directing the Visiting Artists Program.[2] In 2000, she was a co-curator of the Whitney Biennial.[3] Oliver joined CAMH in 2000 as associate curator and was promoted to full curator in 2006, then senior curator in 2010.[2]
In 2006, Oliver won a Getty Curatorial Research Fellowship.[4] In 2011, she won the David C. Driskell Prize from Atlanta's High Museum of Art,[5] a $25,000 prize recognizing contributions of an artist or scholar in the field of the art of the African diaspora.[6][7]
Exhibitions
- "Splat Boom Pow! The Influence of Cartoons in Contemporary Art" (2003)
- "Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since 1970" (2005)[8]
- "Black Light/White Noise" (2007)
- "Cinema Remixed & Reloaded: Black Women Artists and the Moving Image since 1970" (2007)[4]
- "Hand+Made: The Performative Impulse in Art and Craft" (2010)[4]
- "Benjamin Patterson: Born in the State of FLUX/us" (2010)[9]
- "Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art" (2013)[10][11][12]
- "Trenton Doyle Hancock: Skin and Bones, 20 Years of Drawing" (2014)[13]
- "Jennie C. Jones: Compilation" (2015)[14]
- "Right Here, Right Now: Houston, Volume 2" (2016)[15]
- "Angel Otero: Everything and Nothing" (2016)[16]
References
- ↑ Oliver, Valerie Cassel; Rowell, Charles Henry (2009). "Interview with Valerie Cassel Oliver". Callaloo. 32 (1): 57–64. Retrieved 31 May 2017.
- 1 2 Thomson, Steven (August 25, 2010). "New senior curator Valerie Cassel Oliver looks to add more edge to CAMH". CultureMap Houston. Retrieved 31 May 2017.
- ↑ Villarreal, Ignacio. "High Names Scholar Valerie Cassel Oliver as 2011 Recipient of the David C. Driskell Prize". ArtDaily. Retrieved 31 May 2017.
- 1 2 3 Britt, Douglas (16 August 2010). "CAMH names Valerie Cassel Oliver senior curator". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved 31 May 2017.
- ↑ "2011 Prize Winner: Valerie Cassel Oliver". www.high.org. High Museum of Art. Retrieved 31 May 2017.
- ↑ "Driskell Prize". www.high.org. High Museum of Art. Retrieved 31 May 2017.
- ↑ Cochran, Rebecca Dimling (20 May 2011). "Houston curator Valerie Cassel Oliver on Atlanta, Driskell Prize, “Atlanta Art Now”". ArtsATL. Retrieved 31 May 2017.
- ↑ Maus, Derek C.; Donahue, James J. (2014-07-07). Post-Soul Satire: Black Identity after Civil Rights. Univ. Press of Mississippi. p. 8. ISBN 9781617039980.
- ↑ Walls, Seth Colter (2 July 2016). "Benjamin Patterson: the Fluxus artist who composed with ants". The Guardian. Retrieved 31 May 2017.
- ↑ Smith, William S. (September 13, 2013). "Valerie Cassel Oliver talks Black Performance Art - Interviews". Art in America Magazine. Retrieved 31 May 2017.
- ↑ Lennard, Debra (25 November 2013). "The Radical Boundaries of African-American Performance". Hyperallergic. Retrieved 31 May 2017.
- ↑ Nguyen, Stacey (18 June 2015). "'Radical Presence' radiates spirit of contemporary black performance art". The Daily Californian. Retrieved 31 May 2017.
- ↑ Glentzer, Molly (April 25, 2014). "Trenton Doyle Hancock's drawings on view at CAMH". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved 31 May 2017.
- ↑ Sargent, Antwuan (January 10, 2016). "Sound Paintings Tell Stories of the Black Avant-Garde". Creators. Vice. Retrieved 31 May 2017.
- ↑ Glentzer, Molly (August 26, 2016). "Show of force: CAMH spotlights hometown trio in solo retrospectives". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved 31 May 2017.
- ↑ Glentzer, Molly (December 16, 2016). "Artist Angel Otero's experimental layering creates works full of dimension". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved 31 May 2017.