The New York, New York 2007 Jurors |
James Rondeau, Frances and
Thomas Dittmer Curator of Contemporary Art, The Art Institute
of Chicago
James Rondeau heads the Department of
Contemporary Art at The Art Institute of Chicago. Since
joining The Art Institute in 1998 he has organized solo
exhibitions with Stan Douglas, Marlene Dumas, Olafur Eliasson,
Thomas Hirschhorn, Mark Manders, and Shirin Neshat, among
others. Previously Rondeau was a Curator at the Wadsworth
Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, where he organized numerous
exhibitions, including The LeWitt Collection, Byron Kim, and
Pipilotti Rist. Rondeau was a commissioner and co-curator of
Robert Gober’s presentation for the United States Pavilion of
the 49th Venice Biennial, Italy in 2001, and has served as
both a curator and panelist for Art
Basel.
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Jessica Morgan,
Curator, Contemporary Art, The Tate Modern,
London
Jessica Morgan is a curator and writer based in London
where she is currently Curator, Contemporary Art, at Tate. She
has organized group exhibitions such as Common Wealth (2003)
and Time Zones (2004) at Tate Modern and the retrospective of
the late-acclaimed German artist Martin Kippenberger (2006).
Morgan curates Tate Modern’s Level 2 Gallery for which she has
developed a series of solo exhibitions of international
emerging artists including Meschac Gaba, Jan De Cock, Roman
Ondàk, Catherine Sullivan, Simryn Gill, and Brian Jungen
(2005/6). In addition, she is Curator for the next Unilever
Turbine Hall commission, which was realised by Carsten Höller in
October 2006, a group exhibition titled The World as Stage
(2007), and the first UK retrospective of the work of John
Baldessari (2009) all for Tate Modern. Morgan is chair of the
Emerging Art Monitoring Group at Tate, for which she is
responsible for proposing and acquiring international work
from the last two decades for Tate’s Collection. She is also
the Tate representative for the American Acquisition
Committee, a group of US-based supporters who annually acquire
work for the museum, and the Frieze Art Fund, a fund
established by the London-based group Outset that acquires
work for Tate at the Frieze Art
Fair.
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Steven Zevitas,
Publisher and Editor of New American Paintings
Steven Zevitas is the owner of New
American Paintings Publication and the Open Studios
Press. Mr. Zevitas received a BA in Art History
from Boston University in 1991 and an MBA from Boston
University in 1999. Steven entered the art world as
the director of a Boston-based alternative gallery space. In
1993, Zevitas became the founding editor and associate
publisher of The Open Studios Press. Under his direction the
critically acclaimed publication New American Paintings
became the leading showcase for the work of emerging and
mid-career painters from throughout the United States. In
1999, after completing his graduate degree, Zevitas purchased
The Open Studios Press from its original owner. The
company has since grown dramatically with the addition of
several new projects all of which are aimed at helping
to bring artists and art enthusiasts together. Among his
new projects are osp catalogs, which provides high-end
catalog design and production services to artists, museums and galleries, and Boston-based osp
gallery. Zevitas is actively involved in the art world as a writer, designer
and curator.
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