Shelley Rice
American art historian and critic
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Shelley Rice (born August 20, 1950) is an American art historian and critic who specializes in photography. A 1992 Guggenheim Fellow, she has written several books, including Parisian Views (1997). She is a professor at New York University Tisch School of the Arts.[1]
- Art historian
- art critic
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| Born | August 20, 1950 New York City |
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| Discipline | Art history |
Sub-discipline | Photography history |
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Biography
Rice was born on August 20, 1950 in New York City.[2] She obtained a BA from Stony Brook University in 1972 and MA from the New York University Institute of Fine Arts in 1975, before working as a PhD student at Princeton University.[2][1]
In 1975, Rice joined the School of Visual Arts faculty.[2] She worked as an art adjunct instructor at Brooklyn College (1972-1977) and Temple University (1978-1980), before becoming an adjunct assistant professor of art history and photography at New York University in 1981.[2] She later joined the faculty of New York University Tisch School of the Arts, eventually becoming an arts professor.[1] She has also worked as a visiting professor at the École normale supérieure and the University of Zurich.[1]
Rice has written and edited several books, including Parisian Views (1997), which studies photography's relationship with Paris' redevelopment in the Second French Empire,[3] Inverted Odysseys: Claude Cahun, Maya Deren, Cindy Sherman (1999), and Xing Danwen (2015), and has co-authored several more.[1] She is also an art and photography critic[1] and works as a freelancer, writing for several publications and, in some cases, writing as a columnist.[2][1] She won the 1989 PEN/Jerard Award for Non-Fiction Essay,[4] and she won a 1999 Kraszna-Krausz Prize for Parisian Views.[5]
Rice has curated several exhibitions within New York City museums and art galleries, some of which are located at NYU.[1] She and Sandi Fellman were co-curators of the Avon Collection, a collection of works by women photographers formed by Avon Products.[6]
Rice was a 1980 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow.[2] In 1992,[7] she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for "a study of photography in France and Haussmann's reconstruction of Paris".[2] She was a Fulbright Research Fellow at the Musée Carnavalet (1988-1989)[8] and a Fulbright Lecture Fellow at Boğaziçi University (1998-1999),[9] in the latter's case building a public television media center.[1] In 2010, she was awarded Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.[4]
Works
Books
- (co-author) Landmarks (1984)[1]
- (co-author) Paris et le Daguerreotype (1990)[1]
- (co-author) Jacques-Henri Lartigue (1993)[1]
- (co-author) Pictorial Effect/Naturalistic Vision (1994)[1]
- (co-author) The Art of the Everyday (1997)[1]
- Parisian Views (1997)[10][11][12][13]
- (ed.) Inverted Odysseys: Claude Cahun, Maya Deren, Cindy Sherman (1999)[14]
- The Book of 101 Books (2001, essayist)[1]
- (co-author) Vik Muniz (2004)[1]
- (co-author) Candida Hofer: In Portugal (2007)[1]
- (co-author) American Photography (2012)[1]
- (co-author) Marc Ferrez: Rio (2015)[1]
- Xing Danwen (2015).[1]
- (co-author) Hank Willis Thomas’ Unbranded: A Century of White Women (2015)[1]
Curated exhibitions
- Deconstruction/Reconstruction (1980), The New Museum[1]
- Schemes: A Decade of Installation Drawings (1981), Elise Meyer Gallery[1]
- Inverted Odysseys: Claude Cahun, Maya Deren, Cindy Sherman (1999-2000, with Lynn Gumpert), New York University Grey Art Gallery[15]
- The View from Left Field: Photographs from the Photo Morgue of the Daily Worker (2013, with Michael Nash), Tamiment Library at New York University[1]