Nohl Jurors
Each year, the Nohl Fellows are selected by a panel of recognized visual arts professionals working outside the four-county area.
On Thursday, October 27, 2011 there will be an informal reception welcoming this year’s jurors at UWM’s Institute of Visual Arts (Inova), 2155 N. Prospect Ave., Milwaukee, WI 53202. The reception begins at 6 pm, and the jurors will give a talk about their institutions and curatorial interests beginning at 6:30 pm. This event is free and open to the public.
Xandra Eden is Curator of Exhibitions at the Weatherspoon Art Museum and Adjunct Faculty in Art History at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (2005- ). Her recent thematic exhibitions include Persona: A Body in Parts; Our Subject is You (co-curated with Lee Walton); The Lining of Forgetting: Internal and External Memory in Art and Uneasy Nature. Eden has organized solo shows of the work of Allora & Calzadilla, Janine Antoni, Dike Blair, Christian Jankowski, Judy Pfaff, Dario Robleto, and many others. She is currently working on Global Borders/Zones of Contention (2012) and a solo exhibition of the work of Diana Al-Hadid (2013). Eden has held positions at the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Women and Their Work Gallery, and was Assistant Curator at The Power Plant, Toronto from 1999-2005. Eden holds an MA from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College and a BFA in Studio Art from SUNY Purchase. http://weatherspoon.uncg.edu/
Tumelo Mosaka is the Curator of Contemporary Art at the Krannert Art Museum, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois. He has curated OPENSTUDIO 2011, LIDA ABDUL 2011, Baggage Allowance 2010 with Pamela Z, BIKERIDERS: Danny Lyon 2010 and On-Screen: Global Intimacy 2009, at the Krannert Art Museum. Prior to this, he was the Associate Curator of Exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum where he curated the exhibitions Infinite Islands: Contemporary Caribbean Art 2007, Passing/Posing: Kehinde Wiley 2004 and was co-curator of Open House: Working in Brooklyn 2004. He also organized the presentation of Petah Coyne 2008 and co-organized @ Murakami 2008 and Alexis Rockman’s monumental mural Manifest Destiny 2004 at the Brooklyn Museum. Previously, he worked for Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, South Carolina where he co-curated the exhibition Evoking History 2000-02. Mosaka has organized several national and international exhibitions for other institutions such as the National Center for Afro-American Arts 2004, and St. Louis Contemporary Art Museum 2003. Mosaka was born in Johannesburg, South Africa and currently lives and works in Champaign, Illinois.
Elizabeth Thomas is Phyllis Wattis MATRIX Curator at Berkeley Art Museum, where she directs the museum’s acclaimed MATRIX series of contemporary projects by international artists, including recent and upcoming exhibitions with Silke Otto-Knapp, Desiree Holman, Futurefarmers, Jill Magid, Emily Roysdon, Brent Green, Ahmet Ogut, Omer Fast, Mario Garcia Torres, Martha Colburn, Tris Vonna-Michell, Trevor Paglen, Tomas Saraceno, and Allison Smith among others. Previously, she was an independent curator and writer based in Pittsburgh, PA, organizing The Believers, a collaboration with Nato Thompson at MassMoCA, North Adams, MA; The 'F' Word at The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; and Empathetic at Temple Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia. As Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at Carnegie Museum of Art, she worked intensively on the 2004-5 Carnegie International, as well as overseeing a series of project exhibitions with artists such as Cory Arcangel/Paper Rad, Edgar Arceneaux, Jesse Bransford, Omer Fast, Christian Jankowski, Zon Ito/Ryoko Aoki, and Paul Wood/John Harrison. She also served as curatorial fellow at the Walker Art Center, was a founding editor of the Chicago arts and culture magazine, TenbyTen, and was program coordinator at the Washington Project for the Arts. She received her MA in Modern and Contemporary Art History, Theory and Criticism from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and her BA in Anthropology and Art History from George Washington University, DC. Ms. Thomas has written for numerous catalogues and publications, and lectures often to audiences in museums, universities, and other public venues, and teaches at California College for the Arts, San Francisco. She has served as nominator or jurist for many national awards and grants, including Creative Capital, Anonymous Was a Woman, and the Heinz Endowments, among others. She recently received a Warhol Foundation Curatorial Research Grant to study sites all around the world whose engagement with exhibition, production, and research related to contemporary practice provide models for the rethinking of the solo project-based model of MATRIX.
Past Jurors
2010
Sheryl Conkelton, art historian/curator/writer, Philadelphia
Nathan Lee, critic/curator, New York
Lucía Sanromán, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
2009
Jennie C. Jones, artist, New York
Toby Kamps, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
Barbara Wiesen, Gahlberg Gallery, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, Illinois
2008
Eva Gonzalez-Sancho, FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon, France
Valerie Mercer, Detroit Institute of Arts
Laurel Reuter, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks
2007
Clara Kim, REDCAT, Los Angeles
Ingrid Schaffner, ICA, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Hamza Walker, Renaissance Society, Chicago
2006
Dominic Molon, MCA Chicago
Alma Ruiz, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Nadine Wasserman, independent curator, New York
2005
René DeGuzman, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
Nato Thompson/MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts
Jane Simon, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art
2004
Patricia Hickson, Des Moines Art Center
Habib Kheradyar, POST, Los Angeles
Sue Spaid, independent curator, Cincinnati
2003
Lorelei Stewart, Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois-Chicago.
Tim Peterson, Franklin Art Works, Minneapolis
Barbara Hunt, Artists Space, New York
For further information:
Polly Morris
Lynden Sculpture Garden
2145 W. Brown Deer Rd.
Milwaukee, WI 53217
(414) 446-8794
pmorris@lyndensculpturegarden.org