Robert Storr, professor of painting/printmaking and dean of the Yale School of Art, will give the Celebration of the Arts opening address at the dedication of The Kevin and Karen Kennedy Center for Theatre and the Studio Arts at Hamilton College, on Thursday , Oct. 9, at 7 p.m., in the Bradford Auditorium, KJ. The talk is free and open to the public.
Storr is consulting curator of modern and contemporary art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the commissioner of the 2007 Venice Biennale, the first American invited to assume that position.
He received a bachelor’s degree from Swarthmore College and an M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Storr was curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, from 1990 to 2002, where he organized exhibitions on Elizabeth Murray, Gerhard Richter, Max Beckmann and Tony Smith.
In 2002 Storr was named the first Rosalie Solow Professor of Modern Art at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. He has also taught at the CUNY graduate center and the Bard Center for Curatorial Studies as well as the Rhode Island School of Design, Tyler School of Art, New York Studio School and Harvard University, and has been a frequent lecturer in this country and abroad. Storr was appointed professor of painting/printmaking and dean of the School of Art in 2006.
He has been a contributing editor at Art in America since 1981 and writes frequently for Artforum, Parkett, Art Press (Paris), and Frieze (London).
Storr’s honors include a Penny McCall Foundation Grant for painting, a Norton Family Foundation Curator Grant, and honorary doctorates from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Maine College of Art, as well as the Lawrence A. Fleischman Award for Scholarly Excellence in the Field of American Art History from the Smithsonian Institution’s Archives of American Art. In 2000 the French Ministry of Culture presented him with the medal of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres.
