Education

Robert Storr received his B.A. in History and French from Swarthmore College

Swarthmore College

Swarthmore College is a private, independent, liberal arts college in the United States with an enrollment of about 1,500 students. The college is located in the borough of Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, 11 miles southwest of Philadelphia....

 in 1972, and earned an M.F.A. in Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1978.

Career

He was named Dean of the Yale

YALE

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 School of Art for a five-year period beginning July 2006 and was the director of the Venice Biennale

Venice Biennale

The Venice Biennale is a major contemporary art exhibition that takes place once every two years in Venice, Italy. The Venice Film Festival is part of it. So too is the Venice Biennale of Architecture, which is held in even years...

 in 2007. http://www.yale.edu/opa/newsr/06-02-28-03.all.html

From 1990 to 2002 Storr was Curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art. He is considered to be one of the most influential Americans in the art world.

Storr has been described as a "vital link between the museum world and academia" and "a gifted writer".

Over the years, Storr has written for the following publications: Art in America

Art in America

Art in America is an illustrated monthly, international magazine concentrating on the contemporary art world, including profiles of artists and genres, updates about art movements, show reviews and event schedules. It is designed for collectors, artists, dealers, art professionals and other...

, Artforum

Artforum

Artforum is an international monthly magazine specializing in contemporary art.-Publication:The magazine is published ten times a year, September through May, along with an annual summer issue...

, Art Press

Art press

art press is a monthly international review of contemporary art. Its first issue was for December 1972–January 1973. The original branding, which has hardly changed since, was by Roger Tallon...

, New York Times, Washington Post, Village Voice, Art & Design, Interview

Interview (magazine)

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, etc. His regular column 'View from the Bridge' appears in Frieze magazine.

Complementing his career as a curator, writer, painter and teacher, he serves on the Art Advisory Council of the International Foundation for Art Research

International Foundation for Art Research

International Foundation for Art Research is a non-profit organization which was established to channel and coordinate scholarly and technical information about works of art. IFAR provides an administrative and legal framework within which experts can express their objective opinions...

  (IFAR).

Selected works

Storr's published writings encompass 289 works in 390 publications in 12 languages and 18,002 library holdings.

• In direzione ostinata e contraria: scritti sull'arte contemporanea, 2011
• September: A History Painting by Gerhardt Richter, 2009
• Elizabeth Murray, 2005
• Popped Art, 2005
• Disparities & Deformations: Our Grotesque, 2004
• Louise Bourgeois, 2003
• Gerhard Richter: Doubt and Belief in Painting, 2003
• Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting, 2002
• Philip Pearlstein Since 1983, 2002
• Modern Art Despite Modernism, 2000
• Chuck Close, 1998
• Dislocations, 1991
• Philip Guston, 1986

External links

• Form/Space Atelier Exhibits Robert Storr's Autograph And Other Work http://www.formspaceatelier.com
• Watch Chuck Close and Robert Storr in Conversation on BUniverse
• Venice Bienniale website, English version.
• "The Most Influential Americans in Art", in New York magazine, accessed 5 October 2006.
• "Critic, artist and curator Robert Storr named Dean of the Yale School of Art". Yale University press release, February 28, 2006.