Lynn Zelevansky
Lynn Zelevansky | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Pratt Institute, New York University |
| Known for | Curator |
Former Henry J. Heinz II Director of the Carnegie Museum of Art, Lynn Zelevansky (born 1947) is an American curator currently based in New York City. While Curatorial Assistant at MoMA (1987-1995), Zelevansky curated “Sense and Sensibility: Women Artists and Minimalism in the Nineties” (1994), that institution’s first all-female exhibition.
Early Life
Zelevansky earned a BFA from Pratt Institute and an MA from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University in 1987.
Curating Career
During graduate school, Zelevansky co-curated exhibitions for Pratt Institute and Camerawork. Following graduate school, Zelevansky joined MoMA’s Department of Painting and Sculpture as a curatorial assistant and remained there until 1995. In addition to curating “Sense and Sensibility, she curated eleven other MoMA exhibitions, including solo exhibitions for Vito Acconci, Ad Reinhardt, Robert Ryman, Houston Conwill, Cildo Meireles, Guillermo Kuitca, Suzanne Lafont, and Gabriel Orozco. Between 1995 and 2009, Zelevansky worked at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, where she became Department Head in 2000, and then Terri and Michael Smooke Curator in 2004. During this period, she curated the first-ever survey of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, who was named the world’s most “beloved living artist” in 2015. While at LACMA, Zelevansky also organized solo exhibitions for Pablo Picasso, Diego Rivera, Robert Therrien, and Keith Edmier and Farrah Fawcett, plus seven group exhibitions. In 2009, Zelevansky became Henry J. Heinz II Director of the Carnegie Museum of Art, where she remained until 2017. While there, she organized exhibitions for Hélio Oiticica and Paul Thek.
Recurring collaborators
Publication history
| Book Title | Essay Title | Date | Publisher | ISBN Number |
| BCAM/LACMA/2008: The Broad Contemporary Art Museum at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art | April 1, 2008 | Los Angeles County Museum of Art; F First Edition | ISBN-10: 0875871976 | |
| BCAM/LACMA/2008: The Broad Contemporary Art Museum at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art | April 1, 2008 | Los Angeles County Museum of Art; F First Edition | ISBN-13: 978-0875871974 |
Exhibitionography
| DATES | TITLE | VENUE(S) | ARTISTS |
| October 1, 2016-October 1, 2017 | Hélio Oiticica: To Organize Delirium | Carnegie Museum of Art[1], Art Institute of Chicago and Whitney Museum of American Art | Hélio Oiticica |
| October 2010-September 2011 | Paul Thek, Diver: A Retrospective | Carnegie Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art and UCLA Hammer Museum | Paul Thek |
| June-September 2009 | Your Bright Future: 12 Contemporary Artists from Korea [2] | LACMA and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston | Choi Jeong Hwa, Kimsooja, Do-Ho Suh, Gimhongsok, Jeon Joonho, Haegue Yang, Bahc yiso, Kim Beom, Minouk Lim, Koo Jeong-a, Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries, and Jooyeon Park |
| February 2008 | Opening Installation | BCAM at LACMA [3] | John Baldessari, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Joseph Beuys, Chris Burden, Damien Hirst, Mike Kelley, Ellsworth Kelly, Jeff Koons, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Longo, Susan Rothenberg, Ed Ruscha, David Salle, Cindy Sherman, Julian Schnabel, Richard Serra, Philip Taaffe, Mark Tansey, Cy Twombly, and Andy Warhol |
| June 13- October 10, 2004 | Beyond Geometry: Experiments in Form, 1940s-1970[4] | LACMA and Miami Art Museum | 200 works by 130 artists |
| November 21, 2002 – February 10, 2003 | Contemporary Projects 7: Keith Edmier and Farrah Fawcett[5] | Keith Edmier and Farrah Fawcett | |
| October 7, 2001-January 6, 2002 | Jasper Johns to Jeff Koon: Four Decades of Art from the Broad Collections (co-curated with Stephanie Barron) | LACMA, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Guggenheim Museum Bilbao | |
| February 20-May 7, 2000 | Robert Therrien | LACMA, Site Santa Fe, Contemporary Art Museum Houston, and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey | Robert Therrien |
| May 30-August 16, 1999 | Diego Rivera: Art and Revolution | LACMA | Diego Rivera |
| September 6-January 4, 1999 | Picasso: Masterworks from the Museum of Modern Art | LACMA | Pablo Picasso |
| March 8-June 8, 1998 | Love Foreover: Yayoi Kusama, 1958-1968, co-curated with Laura Hoptman | LACMA, MoMA, Walker Art Center and Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo | Yayoi Kusama |
| November 1997-February 1998 | Mexican Masterpieces from the Bernard and Edith Lewin Collection | LACMA | |
| Summer 1997 | Contemporary Projects: Longing and Memory | LACMA | |
| June-September 1994 | Sense and Sensibility: Women Artists and Minimalism in the Nineties | MoMA | Polly Apfelbaum, Mona Hatoum, Rachel Lachowicz, Jac Leirner, Claudia Matzko, Rachel Whiteread, and Andrea Zittel |
| September 1993 | Reinstallation of the permanent collection, with Kirk Varnedoe | MoMA | |
| September 1993 | Projects 41: Gabriel Orozco | MoMA | Gabriel Orozco |
| September 1993 | Robert Ryman (with Robert Storr) | MoMA and Tate Gallery | Robert Ryman |
| October 1992 | Projects 37: Suzanne Lafont | MoMA | Suzanne Lafont |
| January 1992 | The William S. Paley Collection | MoMA | |
| May 1991 | Ad Reinhardt (with William Rubin) | MoMA and Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles | Ad Reinhardt |
| March 1990 | Projects 21:Cildo Meireles | MoMA | Cildo Meireles |
| September 13- October 29, 1991 | Projects 30: Guillermo Kuitca | MoMA, Orange County Museum of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston | Guillermo Kuitca |
| March 1990 | Projects 21: Cildo Meireles | MoMA | Cildo Meireles |
| November 1989 | Projects 19: Houston Conwill | MoMA | Houston Conwill |
| September 1989 | Picasso and Braque: Pioneering Cubism (with William Rubin) | MoMA | Pablo Picaso and Georges Braque |
| February 1988 | Vito Acconci: Public Places (with Linda Shearer) | MoMA | Vito Acconci |
| October 1986 | Products and Promotion: Contemporary Uses of Production and Advertising Forms (co-curated with Donna Stein) | Camerawork | |
| September-November 1985 | Illuminating Color: Four Approaches in Contemporary Painting and Photography(co-curated with Donna Stein) | Pratt Institute |
- ^ https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/helio-oiticica-to-organize-delirium-684380 “How to Understand Hélio Oiticica’s Journey From Art Visionary to Coke Dealer and Back Again”
- ^ http://beta.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-ca-korea21-2009jun21-story.html “’Your Bright Lights’ Spotlights Korean Artists at LACMA”
- ^ http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=22159&b=lacma “Broad Contemporary Art Museum to open at LACMA”
- ^ http://articles.latimes.com/2004/jul/04/entertainment/ca-knight4 “A Clarifying Moment for Minimalism”
- ^ http://beta.latimes.com/la-et-farrah-lacma26-2009jun26-story.html Coming soon to LACMA ... Sculptor Keith Edmier and his muse, Farrah Fawcett, make art together.”