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SMoCA Announces New Senior Curator
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The Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art [SMoCA] is pleased to announce that Claire Schneider is joining the Museum staff as senior curator. Ms. Schneider will assume her position on site on April 21, 2008 but will begin working with the curatorial team beforehand on a major exhibition project for the Museum's tenth anniversary year (2009).
Ms. Schneider comes to SMoCA after ten years as a curator at the Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, one of the nation's oldest and most esteemed modern and contemporary art museums. She previously served as adjunct curator at the Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland and also as a curatorial intern at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (Mass MoCA), North Adams; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA; and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. A native of Tennessee, Schneider received her B.A. in art history from Tufts University, Boston and her M.A. in art history from Williams College, known as a stellar training ground for museum professionals.
SMoCA Director Susan Krane stated, "I am thrilled to welcome Claire to SMoCA's staff. She has a rare combination of creative vision and strong curatorial training-with especially impressive writing and research skills. Claire has consistently demonstrated an energetic commitment to both artists and museum audiences. She truly believes that museums are public educational institutions. Her innovative and thought-provoking approach to exhibitions, installations and interpretation is a perfect match for the Museum's mission, as is her experience with architectural projects. She will be an asset not only to SMoCA but to the greater arts community in the Valley."
Schneider has organized and implemented exhibitions of the work of Mathew Barney, Andrea Zittel, Jim Hodges, Paul Pfeiffer, Franz West, Julie Mehretu, Tashiko Mori, Janine Antoni, Kara Walker, Laylah Ali and Paul Noble, among many others. She co-curated Extreme Abstraction, 2005, a monumental international survey of over 150 artists that included twenty site-specific installations and commissions. Schneider is known for her collaborative approach and keen ability to successfully lead complex project teams and community partnerships.
Ms. Schneider comes to SMoCA after ten years as a curator at the Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, one of the nation's oldest and most esteemed modern and contemporary art museums. She previously served as adjunct curator at the Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland and also as a curatorial intern at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (Mass MoCA), North Adams; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA; and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. A native of Tennessee, Schneider received her B.A. in art history from Tufts University, Boston and her M.A. in art history from Williams College, known as a stellar training ground for museum professionals.
SMoCA Director Susan Krane stated, "I am thrilled to welcome Claire to SMoCA's staff. She has a rare combination of creative vision and strong curatorial training-with especially impressive writing and research skills. Claire has consistently demonstrated an energetic commitment to both artists and museum audiences. She truly believes that museums are public educational institutions. Her innovative and thought-provoking approach to exhibitions, installations and interpretation is a perfect match for the Museum's mission, as is her experience with architectural projects. She will be an asset not only to SMoCA but to the greater arts community in the Valley."
Schneider has organized and implemented exhibitions of the work of Mathew Barney, Andrea Zittel, Jim Hodges, Paul Pfeiffer, Franz West, Julie Mehretu, Tashiko Mori, Janine Antoni, Kara Walker, Laylah Ali and Paul Noble, among many others. She co-curated Extreme Abstraction, 2005, a monumental international survey of over 150 artists that included twenty site-specific installations and commissions. Schneider is known for her collaborative approach and keen ability to successfully lead complex project teams and community partnerships.