Sheryl Conkelton

Sheryl Conkelton is an art historian, curator and writer based in Philadelphia, where her most recent curatorial project, the world in my street, a web-based exhibition, is currently viewable at www.newurbanimaginaries.org. She was director of Exhibitions and Public Programs at Tyler School of Art, Temple University (2004-09), and has held senior curatorial positions at the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Conkelton has organized numerous exhibitions, among them the inaugural five-site international biennial The Graphic Unconscious (co-curator, 2010), Phil Collins: assume freedom (2005), An International Legacy: Selections from the Collection of the Carnegie Museum of Art (2003), Uta Barth, In Between Places (2000), Coming to Life, the Figure in American Art 1955-1965 (1998), Annette Messager (1995). She has published widely, authoring a number of books including Lewis Baltz: Prototypes, Tract Houses and New Industrial Parks near Irvine, California (RAM/Steidl/Whitney Museum of American Art, 2005); Northwest Mythologies, The Interactions of Mark Tobey, Morris Graves, Kenneth Callahan and Guy Anderson (with Laura Landau, University of Washington, 2003); and Frederick Sommer, (Clio Press, 1995). She has contributed to journals, exhibition catalogues and other publications, among them Collapse (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 2002), Deep Storage: An Arsenal of Memory (P.S. 1, New York/ Prestel, Munich, 1998), Fotografia del Siglo XX (Fundacio Caixa, Barcelona, 1992), and the forthcoming Grove Encyclopedia of American Art.

Conkelton has lectured extensively at museums, universities and cultural institutions in North America, Europe and Japan, and has taught at Moore College of Art and Design, the University of Washington, UCLA, and California State University, Los Angeles. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including grants from Pew Charitable Trust, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Peter Norton Family Foundation, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, France.

*Photo by: Raymond Gendreau