Week 2 – October 5, 2011–Fionn Meade (via telecommuting)
Fionn Meade is Curator at SculptureCenter, NY, where recent group
exhibitions include Knight’s Move, a survey of new sculpture in New
York, and Leopards in the Temple, with Lothar Baumgarten, Das
Institut, Patrick Hill, João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva, Lucy Skaer,
and Kathrin Sonntag, among others. Recent curatorial projects also
include Nachleben, co-organized with Lucy Raven at Goethe Institut,
NY, which engaged Aby Warburg’s thinking and included works by Matthew
Buckingham, Patricia Esquivias, William E. Jones, Harun Farocki,
Rachel Harrison, John Miller, Stan VanDerBeek, James Welling,
Christopher Wool, and Akram Zaatari, among others, and Entr’acte at
Catherine Bastide with Tom Burr, James Coleman, David Noonan, William
Pope.L, Catherine Sullivan, and Rosemarie Trockel. His writing appears
in Artforum, Bomb, Bidoun, The Fillip Review, Mousse, and Parkett,
among other publications, and he received a 2009 Arts Writer Grant
from Creative Capital and the Andy Warhol Foundation. Recently
released catalog writing includes essays on Elad Lassry for the
Kunsthalle Zurich (JRP/Ringier), and Mark Morrisroe for the Fotomuseum
Winterthur (JRP/Ringier). He holds an MA from the Center for
Curatorial Studies, Bard College, and MFA in Creative Writing from
Columbia University