Jane Farver (1947–2015) was a

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and director in the field of international

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. Farver was a director at the

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Art Gallery, the Tomoko Liguori Gallery, the chief curator of the

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from 1992–1999, and the head of the

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from 1999 to 2011. She also was a curator at

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in Cleveland, Ohio. She was also a guest co-curator of the 2000

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and an Artistic Director of the 2011

Incheon Women Artists' Biennale The Incheon Women Artists' Biennale, held in Incheon, South Korea, and inaugurated in 2004, subsequently had editions in 2007, 2009, and 2011 that focused on the work of contemporary women artists. It is the first and only art biennale in the wor ...

in Incheon, South Korea.Jane Farver, Former MIT List Head and Queens Museum Curator, Has Died in Venice
/ref> She died of a heart attack in 2015. Her partner John L. Moore is also a noted painter and curator. One of Farver's more well regarded works was the 1999 Queens Museum show Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin 1950s-1980s, which covered conceptualist art.CURATOR JANE FARVER DIES AT 68
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Publications

* Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 1950s-1980s * Out of India: Contemporary Art of the South Asian Diaspora, December 8, 1997 – March 22, 1998 * Pavel Braila (as an editor)

References

External links

* https://www.berkshirefinearts.com/05-01-2015_jane-farver-death-in-venice.htm {{DEFAULTSORT:Farver, Jane 1947 births 2015 deaths American arts administrators Women arts administrators American art curators American women curators 21st-century American women