简介

Jenni Sorkin writes on the intersection between gender, material culture, and contemporary art. She is currently finishing a book titled The Rural Avant-Garde: Experiments in Ceramics, which examines the confluence of gender, artistic labor, and the history of post-war ceramics. She has published widely as an art critic, and her writing has appeared in the New Art Examiner, Art Journal, Art Monthly, NU: The Nordic Art Review, Frieze, The Journal of Modern Craft, Modern Painters, and Third Text. She has written numerous in-depth catalog essays on feminist art and material culture topics. She has been an invited lecturer at Dia Beacon, Ohio University, the School of Visual Arts, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Santa Monica Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, and the Textile Museum of Canada. She sits on the Editorial Board of Art Journal and in 2013, was Guest Editor of the Art section of Gulf Coast, a literary and fine arts journal based in Houston. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Center for Craft, Creativity, and Design at the University of North Carolina, Asheville (2012), the Getty Research Institute (2010-11), and an ACLS/Luce Pre-Doctoral Fellowship in American Art (2007). In 2004, she received the Art Journal Award. In 2010, she co-organized "Blind Spots/Puntos Ciegos: Feminisms, Cinema, and Performance," for the eight edition of SITAC, the International Symposium of Contemporary Art Theory, held in Mexico City. On September 28, 2013, she will give the Keynote Address "We Can Work It Out: Feminist Labor and the Future of Craft" at the FlashBackForward: Rethinking Craft Symposium at Arizona State University.