Jenni Sorkin

Jenni Sorkin was born in Chicago, Illinois, on August 29, 1977. She received a PhD in Art History from Yale University in 2010.^[1] She also attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Bard College.^[2]

In 2004, Sorkin received the "Art Journal Award"^[3] for her publication "Envisioning High Performance" (2003).^[4]

Sorkin is the author of the book Live Form: Women, Ceramics, and Community (2016), and her essays have appeared in exhibition catalogs for various artists.^[5] She is on the faculty of the department of art history at the University of California, Santa Barbara.^[6] She is on the editorial board^[7] for "The Journal of Modern Craft"^[8]

Sorkin was the co-curator (with Paul Schimmel) of Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women 1947–2016, the inaugural exhibition at Hauser Wirth & Schimmel in Los Angeles. The exhibition featured sculptures by 34 women artists.^{[citation needed]}

In 2020, Sorkin published an article called "Talk Back: Be a Generalist!" on Panorama, journal of the association of historians of American Art.^[9]

In 2021, Sorkin published Art in California, which provides a chronology of art-making in a state at the intersection of migration and global politics, including the institutions and networks that have shaped the radical art movements of California.^[10]

• Women in the art history field