Rhea Anastas is an American art historian and critic, born in 1969 in Gloucester, Massachusetts

Gloucester, Massachusetts

Gloucester is a city on Cape Ann in Essex County, Massachusetts, in the United States. It is part of Massachusetts' North Shore. The population was 28,789 at the 2010 U.S. Census...

. She earned her B.A.

Bachelor of Arts

A Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both...

 and M.A.

Master of Arts (postgraduate)

A Master of Arts from the Latin Magister Artium, is a type of Master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. The M.A. is usually contrasted with the M.S. or M.Sc. degrees...

 degrees at Columbia University

Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

, and her Ph.D.

PHD

PHD may refer to:*Ph.D., a doctorate of philosophy*Ph.D. , a 1980s British group*PHD finger, a protein sequence*PHD Mountain Software, an outdoor clothing and equipment company*PhD Docbook renderer, an XML renderer...

 from The Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York

City University of New York

The City University of New York is the public university system of New York City, with its administrative offices in Yorkville in Manhattan. It is the largest urban university in the United States, consisting of 23 institutions: 11 senior colleges, six community colleges, the William E...

. From 2001 to 2008 Anastas served as Visiting Professor of Art History at the Graduate Program in Curatorial Studies and Art in Contemporary Culture

Center for Curatorial Studies and Art in Contemporary Culture

The Center for Curatorial Studies and Art in Contemporary Culture is an exhibition and research center dedicated to the study of art and exhibition practices from the 1960s to the present day. Co-founded in 1990 by Marieluise Hessel and Richard Black, the Center initiated its graduate program in...

, at Bard College

Bard College

Bard College, founded in 1860 as "St. Stephen's College", is a small four-year liberal arts college located in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.-Location:...

, New York. She is presently a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Roski School of Fine Arts, University of Southern California

University of Southern California

The University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university...

, Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...

.

Anastas has co-edited a number of books, including (with curator/critic Marianne Brouwer) Dan Graham

Dan Graham

Dan Graham , is a conceptual artist now working out of New York City. He is an influential figure in the field of contemporary art, both a practitioner of conceptual art and an art critic and theorist. His art career began in 1964 when he moved to New York and opened the John Daniels Gallery....

: Works 1965-2000 (2001) and (with art critic Michael Brenson), Witness to Her Art: Art and Writings by Adrian Piper

Adrian Piper

Adrian Margaret Smith Piper is a first-generation conceptual artist and analytic philosopher who was born in New York City and lived for many years on Cape Cod, Massachusetts before emigrating from the United States...

, Mona Hatoum

Mona Hatoum

Mona Hatoum is a video artist and installation artist of Palestinian origin, who lives in London.- Lebanon :...

, Cady Noland

Cady Noland

Cady Noland is a conceptual sculptor and an internationally exhibited installation artist, whose work deals with the failed promise of the American Dream and the divide between fame and anonymity among other themes. Her work has been exhibited in museums and expositions including the Whitney...

, Jenny Holzer

Jenny Holzer

Jenny Holzer is an American conceptual artist. Holzer lives and works in Hoosick Falls, New York.-Education:...

, Kara Walker

Kara Walker

Kara Walker is a contemporary African American artist who explores race, gender, sexuality, violence and identity in her work. She is best known for her room-size tableaux of black cut-paper silhouettes, such as The Means to an End--A Shadow Drama in Five Acts.-Biography:Walker was born in...

, Daniela Rossell and Eau de Cologne (2006). Recent articles include "The Artist Is a Currency," with Gregg Bordowitz, Andrea Fraser

Andrea Fraser

Andrea Fraser is a New York-based performance artist, mainly known for her work in the area of institutional critique. She is currently a member of the Art Department faculty at the University of California, Los Angeles.-Position:...

, Jutta Koether

Jutta Koether

Jutta Koether is a German artist, musician and critic based in New York since the early 1990s.Koether was born in Cologne. Her paintings are exercises in colour, line, form and pattern and often feature text. Her solo show at Pat Hearn Gallery in 1997 featured a soundtrack by the artist,...

, and Glenn Ligon

Glenn Ligon

Glenn Ligon is an American conceptual artist whose work explores race, language, desire, sexuality, and identity. He engages in intertextuality with other works from the visual arts, literature, and history, as well as his own life.-Early life and career:...

, for Grey Room 24

Grey Room

Grey Room is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering work in the fields art, media, and politics relating to architecture. The journal features articles, translations, interviews, dossiers and academic exchange. Grey Room is published quarterly, online and in hard copy, by the MIT Press....

 (Summer 2006); "A Rendezvous Under the Counter: On David Joselit and Gareth James at Elizabeth Dee Gallery

Elizabeth Dee

Elizabeth Dee is an American gallery owner and art dealer. She owns the Elizabeth Dee Gallery on West 20th Street in New York City and she represents many popular contemporary artists, such as Josephine Meckseper and Adrian Piper. She has helped produce many of Trecartin’s movies, such as I-BE...

, New York," Texte zur Kunst no. 65 (March 2006); and "Her Kindling Voice: The Artist Interview According to Louise Lawler

Louise Lawler

Louise Lawler is a U.S. artist and photographer. From the late 1970s onwards, Lawler's work has focused on the presentation and marketing of artwork. Much of this work consists of photographs of other peoples' artwork and the context in which it is viewed...

," Texte zur Kunst no. 67 (September 2007).

She has contributed essays to the publication for the 2005 exhibition Accumulated vision : Barry Le Va, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia

Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia

The Institute of Contemporary Art or ICA is a contemporary art museum located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. The museum is associated with the University of Pennsylvania, and is located on its campus. The Institute is one of the country's leading museums dedicated to exhibiting the innovative...

; to the publication for the 2009 retrospective exhibition Dan Graham: Beyond, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles is a contemporary art museum with three locations in greater Los Angeles, California. The main branch is located on Grand Avenue in Downtown Los Angeles, near Walt Disney Concert Hall...

, the Whitney Museum of American Art

Whitney Museum of American Art

The Whitney Museum of American Art, often referred to simply as "the Whitney", is an art museum with a focus on 20th- and 21st-century American art. Located at 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street in New York City, the Whitney's permanent collection contains more than 18,000 works in a wide variety of...

, New York

New York City

New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

, and the Walker Art Center

Walker Art Center

The Walker Art Center is a contemporary art center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The Walker is considered one of the nation's "big five" museums for modern art along with the Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum and the Hirshhorn...

, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Minnesota

Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

; and to the Dia Art Foundation's

Dia Art Foundation

Dia Art Foundation is a non-profit organization that initiates, supports, presents, and preserves art projects. It was established in 1974 as the Lone Star Foundation by Philippa de Menil, the daughter of Houston arts patron Dominique de Menil and an heiress to the Schlumberger oil exploration...

 book on Agnes Martin

Agnes Martin

Agnes Bernice Martin was an American abstract painter, often referred to as a minimalist; Martin considered herself an abstract expressionist.She won a National Medal of Arts from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1998....

. She is presently working on a book about Andrea Fraser's Untitled (2003), and a monographic book on Allan McCollum

Allan McCollum

Allan McCollum is a contemporary American artist who was born in Los Angeles, California in 1944, and now lives and works in New York City. He has spent over forty years exploring how objects achieve public and personal meaning in a world constituted in mass production, focusing most recently on...

.

Anastas was one of the original co-founders of the well-known art exhibition and event space Orchard

Orchard (gallery)

Orchard, also known as Orchard 47, was a cooperatively organized exhibition and event space located in the Lower East Side neighborhood of Manhattan from 2005-2008. Orchard was collaboratively run by Rhea Anastas, Moyra Davey, Andrea Fraser, Nicolás Guagnini, Gareth James, Christian Philipp Müller,...

, on Orchard Street

Orchard Street (Manhattan)

Orchard Street is a street in Manhattan which covers the eight city blocks between Division Street in Chinatown and East Houston Street on the Lower East Side...

 in New York's Lower East Side

Lower East Side

The Lower East Side, LES, is a neighborhood in the southeastern part of the New York City borough of Manhattan. It is roughly bounded by Allen Street, East Houston Street, Essex Street, Canal Street, Eldridge Street, East Broadway, and Grand Street....

; she curated a number of their exhibitions, and organized a variety of their programs. Orchard was a three-year project, cooperatively founded and managed by a group of artists, writers, and curators, which ran from May 2005 through May 2008.

External links

• Orchard