DUETS Book Launch: William Olander

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Julie Ault (b. 1957, Boston, Massachusetts) is an artist and curator who lives and works in Joshua Tree, California, and New York City, New York. Ault was a co-founder of the art collective Group Material, and her work as an artist and curator has been exhibited at the São Paulo and Whitney Biennials, and at venues such as Artists Space, Weatherspoon Art Museum, and the Secession, Vienna, among others. She has been a visiting lecturer at the University of California at Los Angeles, Portland State University, Rhode Island School of Design, Cooper Union, and California College of the Arts. Additional publications include Show and Tell: A Chronicle of Group Material (2010), Two Cabins by James Benning (2011), and In Part: Writings by Julie Ault (2017). Ault received a B.A. from Hunter College of the City University of New York and a Ph.D. from the Malmö Art Academy of Lund University.

Vivian Crockett (b. 1983, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a New Museum curator and Brazilian-American scholar focusing largely on modern and contemporary art of African diasporas, Latinx diasporas, and the Americas at the varied intersections of race, gender, and queer theory. Crockett previously worked at the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA), where she curated “Guadalupe Rosales: Drifting on a Memory” among other exhibitions. Prior to the DMA, Crockett was a Joan Tisch Teaching Fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art and an Andrew W. Mellon Museum Research Consortium Fellow in the department of Media and Performance Art at The Museum of Modern Art. While in New York, she also worked on independent curatorial projects with various arts organizations, including Visual AIDS, the Leslie-Lohman Museum, and Queer | Art. A graduate of Stanford University, Crockett is currently completing her Ph.D. in art history at Columbia University. Her scholarly contributions can be found in publications from several institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Studio Museum in Harlem; Leslie-Lohman Museum; and Museu de Arte de São Paulo; among others.

David Deitcher (b. Montreal, Canada) is a writer, art historian, and critic living in New York City. His essays have appeared in Artforum, Art in America, Parkett, Village Voice, and other periodicals, as well as in numerous anthologies and monographs on artists such as Sherrie Levine, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Isaac Julien, and Wolfgang Tillmans. Deitcher is the author of Stone’s Throw (Secretary Press, 2016); Dear Friends: American Photographs of Men Together, 1840 –1918 (Abrams, 2001), and curator of its accompanying exhibition at the International Center of Photography in New York; The Question of Equality: Lesbian and Gay Politics in America Since Stonewall (Scribner, 1995). He has been awarded two Canada Council for the Arts, Independent Critics and Curators Grants (2006, 2004), and a Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant (2011). Deitcher was core faculty at the International Center of Photography/Bard College MFA Program from 2003–2020 and holds a Ph.D. from the City University of New York and an M.A. from the Institute of Fine Art at New York University.

Tom Kalin (b. 1962, Chicago, Illinois) is a screenwriter, film director, activist, and producer. He is a professor of experimental film at European Graduate School in SaasFee. He was awarded the Caligari Prize in Berlin and his film Swoon was named one of the top 100 American Independent films by the British Film Institute. Kalin won awards in the Stockholm Film Festival: Fipresci Prize (1992), NewFest: New York’s LGBT Film Festival (2002): Peter S. Reed Achievement Award, Gotham Awards: Open Palm Award (1992), Fantasporto: Directors’ Week Award (1993), Berlin International Film Festival: Teddy/Caligari Film Award (1992), and the Ashland Independent Film Festival: Pride Award (2020). Kalin holds a B.F.A in painting from the University of Illinois and a M.F.A in Photography and Video from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Brian Wallis (b. 1953) is a curator at the Walther Collection, New York and Ulm, Germany, and former Chief Curator and Deputy Director at the International Center of Photography in New York. He is the coauthor of the publications Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self; African American Vernacular Photography; and Imagining Everyday Life: Engagements with Vernacular Photography. Wallis was the curator of several exhibitions at the New Museum including “Damaged Goods: Desire and the Economy of the Object” (1986) and “Hans Haacke: Unfinished Business” (1986), and was the editor of the first ground breaking anthologies published by the New Museum, Art After Modernism: Rethinking Representation (1984) and Blasted Allegories: An Anthology of Writings by Contemporary Artists (1987). Wallis holds a degree in Art History and is currently working on a doctorate in American Studies.