Linda Norden

Faculty, Center for Curatorial Studies

Biography: Independent curator, writer, and art historian. B.A., Brown University; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. candidate, Columbia University. Research fellow (1992–94) and faculty (1994–98), Center for Curatorial Studies and Art in Contemporary Culture; visiting professor in art history (1994–95), Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture. Associate curator of contemporary art, Harvard University Art Museums (1998–06). Exhibition projects include Landmark Pictures: Ed Ruscha, Andreas Gursky, Bernd and Hilla Becher (1999), Beyond Decorum: The Photography of Ike Ude (with Lauri Firstenberg, 2000), John Wesley: Love’s Lust (2001), Tadashi Kawamata: Boston Project: Plan in Progress (2001), Extreme Connoisseurship (2001–02), Pierre Huyghe: This is not a time for dreaming (with Scott Rothkopf, 2004), and Sharon Lockhart: Pine Flat (2006), Harvard University Art Museums;
cocurator, Ed Ruscha’s “Course of Empire,” Whitney Museum of American Art (2005); selector and curator, UK New Contemporaries (2007); Equal that is to the real itself, Marian Goodman Gallery (2007); adviser, 2008 Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art. Commissioner, U.S. Pavilion, 2005 Venice Biennale. Publications include Pierre Huyghe (with Scott Rothkopf, 2008), Show and Hide: Reading Sarah Sze (2007); catalogue essays on Cecily Brown, Eva Hesse, Sharon Lockhart, Claes Oldenburg, and Cy Twombly; articles in Artforum, Artlies, and Parkett.

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