CATHLEEN A. CHAFFEE Horace W. Goldsmith Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art Yale University Art Gallery Education Ph.D. Institute of Fine Arts, New York University Dissertation: Décors: Marcel Broodthaers’s Late Exhibition Practice, 1974–75 M.A. The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London B.S. Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York

2013 2001 1999

Professional Experience Yale University Art Gallery Horace W. Goldsmith Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art 2010–Present Exhibitions: Still Life: 1970s Photorealism (August 2013–March 2014), Once Removed: Sculpture’s Changing Frame of Reference (December 2012–April 2013), Radical Visions, Practically Applied: Women’s Innovations in Abstraction, 1915–37 (September 2012–July 2013) Coordinator of Happy and Bob Doran Artists-in-Residence: Kasia Korczak of Slavs & Tatars (2013), Tris Vonna-Michell (2011), and Carol Bove (2010–11). The Museum of Modern Art, New York Curatorial Assistant, Department of Prints & Illustrated Books 2007–2008 Exhibitions as assistant to the curators: In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960–1976 (2009), Projects 88: Lucy McKenzie (2008), Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now (2007–8) The Cleveland Museum of Art Curatorial Assistant, Contemporary Art and Photography July 2003–August 2004 Curatorial Assistant, Contemporary Art November 2001–July 2003 Exhibitions: Needful Things: Recent Multiples (Jeffrey Grove, co-curator, 2004/5), Trophies of the Hunt (2004), Karel Appel and the Legacies of COBRA (2003). Exhibitions as assistant to the curators: Kelly McLane: My Blue-Green Algae (2004), Time Stands Still: Muybridge and the Instantaneous Photography Movement (2004), Trenton Doyle Hancock: Moments in Mound History (2004), Aernout Mik (2003), MetaScape: Julie Mehretu, Benjamin Edwards, Torben Giehler and Yutaka Sone (2003), Frank Gehry's Peter B. Lewis Building (2002/3), Into the Light: The Projected Image in American Art, 1964-1977 (2002) Teaching Experience École de Recherche Graphique, Institute St. Luc, Brussels, Belgium Visiting Professor of Theory for final-year MFA students

2008–2009

The Museum of Modern Art, New York Instructor for Adult Education course Minimum Requirements for a Picture: Conceptualism and Beyond

Spring 2008

New York University Teacher’s Assistant, History of Western Art II Graduate Course Assistant, Warhol’s World

Fall 2007 Spring 2006

Pratt Institute, New York Art History Instructor, Pre-College Program Independent Curatorial Projects Leon Vranken: don’t whistle till you’re out of the wood White Box, New York (Exhibition organized for the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels)

Summer 2006

March, 2011

College Art Association New York Area MFA Exhibition, Yale University School of Art Hunter College/Times Square Gallery, New York, NY

March, 2011

Reports The Explorers Club, New York (David Adamo and Ellie Ga, co-curators) 2007–Present Interventions in the Club by thirty artists including: Alekandra Mir, Rudolf Stingel, Tom Holmes, Tris Vonna-Michell, and Mike Henry. On Notice: Joëlle Tuerlinckx // Chance Projects (Marysia Lewandowska & Neil Cummings) Swiss Institute – Contemporary Art, New York March, 2006 Wish you were here The Cleveland Institute of Art (David Carrier, co-curator) October–December 2003 Exhibition and eight related artists’ residences by artists including: Bas Jan Ader, Becket Bowes, Amy Cutler, Christoph Fink, and Lordy Rodriguez. Looking With/Out: East Wing Collection No.05 The Courtauld Institute of Art, London (Co-curator) November 2001–October 2003 Works by thirty artists including: Dan Graham, Abigail Lane, Gunilla Klingberg, Gianni Motti, and Claude Closky. Selected Publications Books: Eye on a Century: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Charles B. Benenson Collection at the Yale University Art Gallery. New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 2012. Marcel Broodthaers’s SUR L’ART. (Editor of the previously unpublished 1975 artist’s book) Distributed with Frieze, no. 142, October, 2011. Introductory essay and annotated translation: 27–28. Essays in Books: Art & Place; Site-Specific Art of the Americas (contributing author). London: Phaidon Press, 2013 [Forthcoming]. “To Teach and Delight: Some Precedents for an Art of Instruction,” Postscript: Writing After Conceptual Art. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013 [Forthcoming]. “Chez Broodthaers: Considérations Domestiques,” Marcel Broodthaers. Brussels: Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, 2010: 77–88. “White Out: Abstraction and Activism in the Work of Lieven de Boeck,” l.i.e.v.e.n.d.e.b.o.e.c.k.//texts #1. Eindhoven: Onomatopee, 2007. Reprinted in De Kantlijn: Kunstjournaal uit de Zuidelijke Nederlanden. No. 4, 2007. Exhibition Catalogues and Brochures: 2013 DeCordova Biennial (contributing author). Lincoln, Mass.: DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, 2014. Hanne Darboven. New York: Leo Castelli Gallery, 2013. Carol Bove: The Middle Pillar, 2007. New York: Maccarone, 2013. “Still Life: 1970s Photorealism,” Brochure. New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 2013.

“The Shifting Locations of Richard Artschwager,” Richard Artschwager! New York and New Haven: The Whitney Museum of American Art and the Yale University Art Gallery, 2012. “Once Removed – Sculpture’s Changing Frame of Reference,” Brochure. New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 2012. “Interview with Becket Bowes,” Failure Canon, Brochure. New York: Rachel Uffner Gallery, 2010. “Bas Jan Ader,” “Hanne Darboven,” “Charlotte Posenenske.” In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960–1976. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2009: 54–60, 64–70, 108–114. “Leon Vranken,” 2009 Prix de la Jeune Peinture Belge. Brussels: Palais des Beaux-Arts, 2009. Reports: A Finding Aid. (editor) New York: The Explorers Club, 2008. “Libby Black: Work Out,” World Artists Program Brochure. Cleveland: SPACES Gallery, 2008. “Like a Fox: Jiří Skála’s Exchange of Handwriting,” Brochure. New York: Art in General, 2006. “Needful Things,” Brochure (co-author). Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2004. Wish you were here – The Art of Adventure, Cleveland: The Cleveland Institute of Art, 2003. Drawing Modern: Works from the Agnes Gund Collection (contributing author). Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2003. “‘Is Not Identity Preferable to Similitude?’: Jeremy Bentham’s Auto-Icon,” Ebenbilder: Kopien von Körpern – Modelle des Menschen. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2002. Looking With/Out: East Wing Collection No.05. (editor) London: The Courtauld Institute of Art, 2001. Journal, Magazine, and Bulletin Articles: “Carol Bove – Setting for A. Pomodoro,” Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin 2012. New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 2012. “Marcel Broodthaers – A Voyage on the North Sea,” Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin 2011. New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 2011. “Situating Marcel Broodthaers’s Final Exhibitions.” Manifesta Journal, No. 7, 2009: 40–49. “Joëlle Tuerlinckx, CRYSTAL TIMES - Reflexiones sin sol / Proyecciones sin objetos.” Artforum.com, 28 November 2009. “Sven Augustijnen’s Les Demoiselles de Bruxelles: A ‘Philosophical Brothel,’” Newspaper Jan Mot, No. 65, January, 2009. “Bhupen Khakhar,” Art Asia Pacific, July/August, 2007: 112. “Tris Vonna-Michell,” Bomb, Winter, 2007: 24–25. “Profile: Cory Arcangel,” Contemporary, October, 2006: 26 - 29. Reprinted in Her(his)tory. Athens: Museum of Cycladic Art, 2007.

“The Perfect Shot,” The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine, September, 2004: 8–9. “Commodity Arts,” The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine, September, 2004: 10–11. “Drawing Under the Influence: Lee Baxter Davis,” ArtUS. September/October 2004: 47. “Review: Rosalind Krauss and American Philosophical Art Criticism: from Formalism to beyond Postmodernism.” Tema Celeste, 2002. Lectures and Symposia “Working with and through the Collection,” The Feminist Art Project Special Sessions, College Art Association Annual Conference Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum 16 February, 2013 Sven Augustijnen’s Spectres (2012). Organizer of feature film screening, and panel with the artist. Yale University School of Art 1 October, 2012 “Instruction in the Work of Marcel Broodthaers” Yale University School of Art 16 April, 2012 “The Interior Décors of Marcel Broodthaers: Salle Rose to La Salle Blanche” Material Culture Faculty/Staff Colloquium, Yale University 24 March, 2011 “Holiday Art” (on artists’ residencies) with Annie Davey The Public School, in association with Komplot, Brussels 13 March, 2011 “Marcel Broodthaers’s Section Cinéma” For the Contemporary Arts Council, MoMA 16 September, 2010 “Marcel Broodthaers in Context” Index: Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm 30 January, 2010 “The Retrospective as Medium: Marcel Broodthaers's Décors Exhibitions (1974 - 1975)” Jan van Eyck Academie, Post-Academic Institute, Maastricht, the Netherlands 14 October, 2009 “The Man Behind the Curtain: Thomas Wilfred’s Beautiful Ruin” 9 May, 2006 Symposium on Forms of Seeing, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, NYU “Portraiture and Photography for Nasir al-Din Shah” 24 September, 2005 Islamic Portraiture Symposium, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU Curator’s Lecture, Trophies of the Hunt, The Cleveland Museum of Art 28 July, 2004 Organizer and Discussant, The Art of Adventure Symposium November, 2003 The Cleveland Institute of Art Honors and Awards New England Museum Association Publication Competition, Award for Eye on a Century: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Charles B. Benenson Collection at the Yale University Art Gallery 2012 Association of Art Museum Curators (AAMC) Monographic Catalogue Award for Excellence, Honorable Mention for Richard Artschwager! 2012 Fellow, Trumbull College, Yale University 2011–Present Fulbright Fellow, Belgium 2008–2009 Erwin Panofsky Fellow, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University 2004–2010 The Rayne Foundation Graduate Studentship, The Courtauld Institute of Art 2001 Phi Kappa Phi Graduate Scholarship Award of Excellence 2000 Professional Activities Juror, Washington Art Association Awards, Washington, Connecticut Curator-led studio tours, Benefit event, ArtSpace, New Haven Visiting Critic, Networking event, ArtSpace, New Haven Visiting Critic, Wiels Artist Residency, Brussels Member, Interdisciplinary Forum on Forms of Seeing Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, New York University

January, 2013 October, 2012 September, 2010 2008–9 2005–2006

Coordinator, Artists at the Institute Lecture Series Graduate Student Association, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University Juror, The Progressive Corporation Employee Traveling Art Exhibition, Cleveland, OH Juror, Art and Law Awards, The Cleveland Bar Association Board of Trustees, SPACES Gallery, Cleveland, OH Exhibition Programming Committee, SPACES Gallery, Cleveland, OH Professional Affiliations American Association of Art Museum Curators American Association of Museums College Art Association

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