Maura Reilly

Maura Reilly
Academic background
Alma mater	New York University
Thesis	Le vice a la mode : Gustave Courbet and the vogue for lesbianism in the Second Empire (2000)
Doctoral advisor	Linda Nochlin

Maura Reilly is the director of the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, and previously served as the founding curator of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art. Reilly is also known for developing the concept of ‘curatorial activism’.

Biography

Reilly earned a B.A. from Providence College in 1990.[1] She has an M.A. and a Ph.D. from the New York University Institute of Fine Arts where she worked under the supervision of Linda Nochlin.[2][3] Reilly has held positions at Arizona State University, the American Federation of Arts,[2] as a professor and chair of art theory at the Queensland College of Art at the Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia,[4] Reilly was the founding curator of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum.[5] She then became the executive director and chief curator of the National Academy of Design.[6] In 2022 Reilly was named director of the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University.[7]

Academic work

In 2007, Reilly's first exhibition at the Sackler center was Global Feminisms which brought together works from 87 women,[8] and presented the work of women in the context of society at large and not a sole focus on gender.[9]: 176  Josephine Withers described the show as placing the exhibit beyond "a priori ideas about what feminist art should look like".[10]: 86  Other exhibits that Reilly coordinated at the Sackler include a 2008 show on Ghada Amer.[11][12]

In 2015, Reilly organized an all-women issue of ARTnews, in which she offered up statistics demonstrating systemic sexism in the art world.[13][6][14] Her work on curatorial activism, as expanded upon in her book Curatorial Activism: Towards an Ethics of Curating,[15] is cited by others as a means to teach the need for increased visibility of marginalized artists.[16][17][18] Curatorial Activism: Towards an Ethics of Curating was listed as one of the Top 10 Best Art Books of 2018 from the New York Times.[19]

In 2019 she wrote about the lack of representation of women artists in the reinstallation of the permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art.[20] Exhibits curated by Reilly have been reviewed by arts media across the globe, including, most recently, her exhibition Wandamba yalungka/Winds change direction, which was reviewed in 2021 by The Brooklyn Rail.[21] Reilly and Linda Nochlin co-curated Global Feminisms: New Directions in Contemporary Art, which was the first show at the Brooklyn Museum's Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art; the show was reviewed by the popular press including The New Yorker magazine[22] and the New York Times.[23]

Selected publications

• Global feminisms : new directions in contemporary art. Maura Reilly, Linda Nochlin, Brooklyn Museum, Davis Museum and Cultural Center. London: Merrell Publishers. 2007. ISBN 978-1-85894-390-9. OCLC 79256724.[24]
• Reilly, Maura (2010). Ghada Amer. Ghada Amer. New York: Gregory R. Miller & Co. ISBN 978-0-9800242-0-3. OCLC 549145576.[25]
• Nochlin, Linda (2015). Women artists : the Linda Nochlin reader. Maura Reilly. New York, New York: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 978-0-500-23929-2. OCLC 892891670.[26]
• Reilly, Maura (2015-05-26). "Taking the Measure of Sexism: Facts, Figures, and Fixes". ARTnews.com. Retrieved 2022-01-02.
• Reilly, Maura (2018). Curatorial activism : towards an ethics of curating. Lucy R. Lippard. London: WW Norton. ISBN 978-0-500-23970-4. OCLC 992571921.[27]

Awards

In 2005, Reilly won the Future Leadership Award from ArtTable,[28] and in 2006 she received the President Award from the Women's Caucus of Art.[29] Reilly was the guest judge for the 2012 churchie emerging art prize.[30]

References

1. "Notable Alumni". Art at Providence College. Retrieved 2023-10-09.
2. "Maura Reilly | School of Art". art.asu.edu. Archived from the original on January 2, 2022. Retrieved 2022-01-02.
3. "About: Maura Reilly". Brookyln Museum. Brooklyn Museum. Retrieved 3 May 2021.
4. Reilly, Maura (2011). Richard Bell : uz vs. them. Richard Bell, Djon Mundine, American Federation of Arts, Tufts University. Art Gallery. New York, NY: American Federation of Arts. ISBN 978-1-904832-95-9. OCLC 690904774.
5. Ryzik, Melena (2015-08-05). "The Guerrilla Girls, After 3 Decades, Still Rattling Art World Cages". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-01-02.
6. Sheets, Hilarie M. (2016-03-30). "Female Artists Are (Finally) Getting Their Turn". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-10-09.
7. Furnas, Dawn (February 3, 2022). "Rutgers UniversityNew Brunswick names new art museum director". NJBIZ; New Brunswick – via Proquest.
8. Micucci, Dana (2007-04-19). "Feminist art gets place of pride in Brooklyn". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-10-09.
9. Heartney, Eleanor (2013). The reckoning : women artists of the new millennium. Munich ; New York: Prestel. ISBN 978-3-7913-4759-2.
10. Withers, Josephine (2017). "All Representation is Political". In Gurley, Gregory (ed.). Art and gender : an intersexual reader. San Diego, California: Cognella Academic Publishing. ISBN 978-1-63487-971-2.
11. Rosenberg, Karen (2008-06-20). "Veiled or Naked: Scrutinizing Women's Roles". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-10-09.
12. Rathe, Adam (2008). "Obsessed with 'Love'". The Brooklyn Paper. Vol. 31, no. 12. p. 11.
13. Freeman, Nate (May 27, 2015). "A Sneak Peek Inside the ARTnews All-Women Issue". Vulture. Retrieved 2022-01-02.
14. Force, Thessaly La (2018-02-12). "Couture for Artists, Dead and Alive". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-10-09.
15. Reilly, Maura (2018). Curatorial activism : towards an ethics of curating. Lucy R. Lippard. London: WW Norton. ISBN 978-0-500-23970-4. OCLC 992571921.
16. Birnbaum, Paula (March 1, 2020). "Practicing What We Preach". American Alliance of Museums. Retrieved January 2, 2022.
17. Mannarino, Amy (2018-03-01). "What the Data Tell Us About the Challenges Facing Female Artists of Color". Hyperallergic. Retrieved 2022-01-02.
18. Rebello Magalhães, Ana Maria; Magalhães de Oliveira, Paula Rebello; Sarzi Ribeiro, Regilene Aparecida; Du Aguiar Leme, Iriane; Bazzo Francisco, Renata (2023–2024). "El activismo curatorial y las historias del arte y el vídeo: mundos caleidoscópicos". Cuadernos del Centro de Estudios de Diseño y Comunicación (in Spanish). 26 (191): 139–166 – via EBSCO.
19. Smith, Roberta; Cotter, Holland; Farago, Jason (2018-12-13). "The Best Art Books of 2018". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-01-02.
20. Reilly, Maura (2019-10-31). "MoMA's Revisionism Is Piecemeal and Problem-Filled: Feminist Art Historian Maura Reilly on the Museum's Rehang". ARTnews.com. Retrieved 2022-01-02.
21. Russo, Jillian (2021-09-01). "Wandamba yalungka.../Winds change direction..." The Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved 2022-01-02.
22. Schjeldahl, Peter (2007-04-02). "Women's Work". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2022-01-02.
23. Smith, Roberta (2007-03-23). "They Are Artists Who Are Women; Hear Them Roar". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-01-02.
24. Reviews of Global feminisms
    • Shaw, Gwendolyn DuBois (2008). Reilly, Maura; Nochlin, Linda (eds.). "Art without Balls". The Women's Review of Books. 25 (3): 7–8. ISSN 0738-1433. JSTOR 20476718.
    • Muller, Dena (2008). Reilly, Maura; Nochlin, Linda (eds.). "Review". Signs. 33 (2): 471–474. doi:10.1086/521560. ISSN 0097-9740. JSTOR 10.1086/521560. S2CID 225088612.
    • Villemur, Frédérique (2009). "Review of Wack! Art and the Feminist Revolution; Global Feminisms: New Directions in Contemporary Art". Clio. Femmes, Genre, Histoire (29): 261–263. doi:10.4000/clio.9312. ISSN 1252-7017. JSTOR 44405867.
25. Review of Ghada Amer
    • Trent, Mary (2012). "Review of Ghada Amer". Woman's Art Journal. 33 (2): 46–47. ISSN 0270-7993. JSTOR 24395290.
26. Reviews of Women artists
    • Kraus, Chris (2015-06-25). "'Women Artists: The Linda Nochlin Reader'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-01-02.
    • Briggs, Patricia (2016). "Review of Women Artists: The Linda Nochlin Reader". Woman's Art Journal. 37 (1): 63–64. ISSN 0270-7993. JSTOR 26452062.
    • Applin, Jo (2021-11-04). "I hope it hurt". London Review of Books. Vol. 43, no. 21. ISSN 0260-9592. Retrieved 2022-01-02.
27. Review of Curatorial activism
    • Largo, Marissa; Reilly, Maura (2018). "Review of Curatorial Activism: Towards an Ethics of Curating, ReillyMaura". RACAR: Revue d'art canadienne / Canadian Art Review. 43 (2): 142–144. doi:10.7202/1054395ar. ISSN 0315-9906. JSTOR 26530779.
    • Boulet, Louis (2020). "Maura Reilly Curatorial Activism: Towards an Ethics of Curating". Esse; Montreal. 98: 110–111 – via Proquest.
    • Coombs, Gretchen (2018-09-04). "Maura Reilly's Curatorial Activism: Towards an Ethics of Curating". The Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved 2023-10-09.
28. "Previous NLA Awardees". ArtTable. Retrieved 2022-01-02.
29. "Past Honorees | Women's Caucus for Art". 2018-08-02. Retrieved 2022-01-02.
30. Browne, Sally (29 July 2012). "Art innovators". The Sunday Mail; Brisbane, Qld.. p. 38 – via Proquest.

External links

• Maura Reilly publications indexed by Google Scholar