Cathleen Chaffee is an American
curator
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, writer, and
art historian
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specializing in
contemporary art
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. She currently serves as the chief curator of the Buffalo AKG Art Museum (formerly the
Albright–Knox Art Gallery
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) in
Buffalo,
New York
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, where she joined in January 2014.
Biography
Chaffee attended
Ithaca College
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followed by study at
Courtauld Institute of Art
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where she received a M.A. degree; and the
New York University Institute of Fine Arts
The Institute of Fine Arts (IFA) of New York University is dedicated to graduate teaching and advanced research in the history of art, archaeology and the conservation and technology of works of art. It offers Master of Arts and Doctor of Philoso ...
where she received a Ph.D. in 2013.
Her dissertation was ''Décors: Marcel Broodthaers's Late Exhibition Practice, 1974-1975,'' and her advisor was
Robert Storr.
She previously worked at the
Yale University Art Gallery
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from 2010 to 2013 in
New Haven
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; the
Museum of Modern Art
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from 2007 to 2008 in New York City; and the
Cleveland Museum of Art
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from 2001 to 2004.
Notable exhibitions curated by Chaffee include ''Stanley Whitney: the Italian Paintings'' (in 2022); ''Introducing Tony Conrad: A Retrospective'' (in 2018); ''Joe Bradley'' (in 2017); ''Clyfford Still / Mark Bradford'' (in 2016); ''Erin Shirreff'' (in 2016); ''Eija-Liisa Ahtila: Ecologies of Drama'' (from 2015 to 2016); ''Screen Play: Life in an Animated World'' (in 2015); ''Overtime: The Art of Work'' (in 2015);
and ''Looking at Tomorrow: Light and Language from The Panza Collection, 1967–1990'' (from 2015 to 2016).
She was awarded a Curatorial Fellowship from the VIA Art Fund in 2018;
and a
Fulbright Fellowship
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in 2008 to Belgium.
Publications
* Chaffee, Cathleen; de Bellis, Vincenzo (2022).
Stanley Whitney: The Italian Paintings'' Buffalo, NY: Buffalo AKG Art Museum.
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* Chaffee, Cathleen; Porter, Jenelle (2015). ''
Erin Shirreff''. Buffalo: Albright-Knox Art Gallery.
ISBN 978-1887457187.
* Chaffee, Cathleen, ed. (2015). ''Eija-Liisa Ahtila: Ecologies of Drama: Essays, Interviews, and Scripts''.
Eija-Liisa Ahtila
Eija-Liisa Ahtila (born 1959 in Hämeenlinna, Finland) is a contemporary visual artist and filmmaker who lives and works in Helsinki.
Ahtila is most known for her multi-panel cinematic installations. She experiments with narrative storytellin ...
(artist). Buffalo: Albright-Knox Art Gallery.
* Gross, Jennifer, ed. (2015).
Drawing Redefined: Roni Horn, Esther Kläs, Joëlle Tuerlinckx, Richard Tuttle and Jorinde Voigt' (art exhibition). Cornelia H. Butler (contributor), Cathleen Chaffee (contributor), Veronica Roberts (Contributor), Lexi Lee Sullivan (Contributor). Lincoln, Mass.: deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum. ISBN 978-0300215915.
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See also
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Women in the art history field
Women were professionally active in the academic discipline of art history in the nineteenth century and participated in the important shift early in the century that began involving an "emphatically corporeal visual subject", with Vernon Lee as a ...
References
External links
Profileat Albright-Knox
Profileat Yale School of Art
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Women art historians
American women curators
American curators
21st-century American historians
Ithaca College alumni
Alumni of the Courtauld Institute of Art
New York University Institute of Fine Arts alumni
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