Thursday, December 4, 2008, 5:30pm | Center for Creative Photography 108
Lecture: Haunted House: Cultural Hybridity in Contemporary American Art
Howard N. Fox is Senior Curatorial Fellow of Contemporary Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. He has organized numerous major exhibitions and authored their catalogues, including Avant-Garde in the Eighties (1987), A Primal Spirit: Ten Contemporary Japanese Sculptors (1990), Lari Pittman (1996), and Eleanor Antin(1999). He was a collaborating curator and contributing author for Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity 1900-2000 and for Tim Hawkinson, co-organized by LACMA and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Fox wrote a principal essay for the catalogue accompanying the 2006 exhibition Los Angeles 1955–1985: Birth of an Art Capital, organized by the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, and is co-curator of the current LACMA exhibition Phantom Sightings: Art after the Chicano Movement. Often focusing on issues of content and meaning in contemporary art, Fox has published and lectured widely. He was previously a curator at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., where he organized some of that museum’s first large-scale exhibitions of contemporary art. Since 2000 he has been a member of the History/Theory/Humanities Faculty of the Southern California Institute of Architecture.
