Meet the jurors for the 2015 ISCP artist residency grant in New York

 

 

Kari Conte is a New York-based curator and writer. Since 2010, she has been the Director of Programs and Exhibitions at the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP). At ISCP, she leads residencies, exhibitions, and public programs in which she collaborates with more than a hundred artists each year. Previously, she worked at Whitechapel Gallery, London and received an MA in Curating Contemporary Art at the Royal College of Art. She has curated or organized over thirty international exhibitions, site-specific commissions and performances including contributions to the Aichi Triennale and Performa Biennial. She has given recent talks at institutions including Art in General, Bard College, Creative Time, Goethe-Institut, Independent Curators International (ICI), Ludwig Museum, Purchase College, and Sharjah Art Foundation and is the editor and an author for the monograph Mierle Laderman Ukeles: Seven Work Ballets, published by Sternberg Press in 2015.

 

 

Jessamyn Fiore is a New York based curator and writer as well the co-director of the Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark. In September 2014 she joined Rawson Projects gallery in New York City as a Partner and Director. She was the Director of Thisisnotashop, a not for profit gallery space in Dublin, from 2007-2010. She co-founded The Writing Workshop in 2007 that functioned as a collaborative forum for writers and artists. She received a Masters in Contemporary Art Theory, Practice, and Philosophy from The National College of Art and Design, Dublin, in 2009. Exhibitions curated include 112 Greene Street: The Early Years (1970–1974) at David Zwirner in New York (2011), which led to her editing the critically acclaimed, eponymous catalogue, published by David Zwirner and Radius Books (2012); a second exhibition for David Zwirner New York titled Gordon Matta-Clark: Above and Below (2013); two solo exhibitions by Clive Murphy at Kling & Bang Galleri in Reykjavik, Iceland (May 2013) and Magnan Metz Gallery, Chelsea, New York (February 2014).

 

 

Ruba Katrib is Curator at SculptureCenter in Long Island City, New York, and was previously Associate Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami. Her recent exhibitions include the group show Puddle, pothole, portal, and solo projects with David Douard, Radamés “Juni” Figueroa, Jumana Manna (all 2014), and Tue Greenfort (2013). Group exhibitions include A Disagreeable Object (2012), on the legacy of surrealism, with Anicka Yi, Pamela Rosenkranz, Camille Henrot, Ian Cheng, Sarah Lucas, and others; andBetter Homes (2013), which addressed domesticity in contemporary art, with Josephine Pryde, Martha Rosler, Carissa Rodriguez, Neil Beloufa, and others. At MOCA Miami, she organized the first comprehensive solo museum exhibitions of Cory Arcangel (2010) and Claire Fontaine (2010). Her writing has appeared in several periodicals including Artforum, Kaleidoscope, and Mousse Magazine. New publications include New Methods (MOCA, 2013), on independent artist initiatives throughout Latin America, and Inquiries Into Contemporary Sculpture — Where is Production? (co-editor) from SculptureCenter and Black Dog Publishing London, 2013.

 

 

Niels Van Tomme is a New York-based curator, researcher, and critic working on the intersections of contemporary culture, politics, and aesthetics. Currently associated with the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture at UMBC in Baltimore, he is the appointed curator of the 7th Bucharest Biennale, 2016. His exhibitions and public programs are shown at venues such as The Kitchen (New York), Värmlands Museum (Karlstad), National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC), Contemporary Arts Center (New Orleans), Gallery 400 (Chicago), and Akademie der Künste (Berlin). A Contributing Editor of Art Papers, Van Tomme publishes internationally in journals, magazines, and exhibition catalogues. His books include Where Do We Migrate To? (2011), Visibility Machines: Harun Farocki and Trevor Paglen (2014), and, most recently, Aesthetic Justice: Intersecting Artistic and Moral Perspectives (2015), co-edited with Pascal Gielen.