Robin Clark - IGSR 2023-2024 Scholar in Residence
Robin Clark is an IGSR Scholar-in-Residence in the Gender and Women’s Studies Department at the University of California, Berkeley, where she has recently authored exhibition catalogue essays for Copenhagen Contemporary, Collection Lambert, and Pirelli Hangar-Bicocca. She is currently contributing to the catalogue raisonné of Josef Albers’ paintings with an essay on the reverberations of Albers’ legacy in the twenty-first century. Previously she was Director of the Artist Initiative, a Mellon Foundation-funded interdisciplinary research grant focused on aspects of the permanent collection at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Her curatorial work focuses on critical intersections of contemporary art and architecture. She curated the Pacific Standard Time exhibition, “Phenomenal: California Light, Space, Surface,” and edited the accompanying book. She was a curator of “The Light Project” at the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts and curated numerous solo shows at the Saint Louis Art Museum for artists including Julie Mehretu, Rivane Neuenschwander, and Isaac Julien. Clark earned degrees in art history from CUNY Graduate Center (PhD), Boston University (MA) and Smith College (BA).