Maura Reilly

Maura Reilly is an associate professor of Art History and Museum Studies at Arizona State University. She is known for her work writing on women in art and curating art shows that emphasize women artists.

Education and career[]

Reilly has an M.A. and a Ph.D. from the New York University Institute of Fine Arts in New York where worked under the supervision of Linda Nochlin.^[1][2] Reilly has held positions at Bard College at Simon's Rock as Chair of Art History and Curatorial Studies, the American Federation of Arts,^[1] and as a professor of art theory at the Queensland College of Art at the Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia.^[3] REilly was the executive director of the Linda Pace Foundation in San Antonio, Texas.^[4] Reilly was the founding curator of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum.^[5][6] As of 2022, Reilly is an associate professor at Arizona State University.^[1]

Academic work[]

Reilly is known for her work on curation, feminism, and global contemporary artists. Riley has established organizations that fight against discrimination against women in the art world,^[7][8][9] and her publication on the status of women in art^[10] was cited in the New York Times in an article showcasing women artists.^[11] In 2015, Reilly led an all-women issue of ARTnews which was reviewed by Vulture magazine.^[12] Her work on curatorial activism^[13] is cited by others as a means to teach the need for increased visibility of women artists.^[14][15] In 2019 she talked about the presentation of women artists in the Museum of Modern Art.^[16] Exhibits curated by Reilly have been reviewed by the media, including her work presenting the Waanyi Aboriginal people of Queensland,Wandamba yalungka/Winds change direction, which was reviewed in 2021 by The Brooklyn Rail.^[17] 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^[18] and the New York Times.^[19]

Selected publications[]

• Global feminisms : new directions in contemporary art. Maura Reilly, Linda Nochlin, Brooklyn Museum, Davis Museum and Cultural Center. London. 2007. ISBN 978-1-85894-390-9. OCLC 79256724.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  • Reviewed by The Women's Review of Books^[20] and Signs^[21]
• Reilly, Maura (2010). Ghada Amer. Ghada Amer. New York: Gregory R. Miller & Co. ISBN 978-0-9800242-0-3. OCLC 549145576.
  • Reviewed by Women's Art Journal^[22]
• Nochlin, Linda (2015). Women artists : the Linda Nochlin reader. Maura Reilly. New York, New York. ISBN 978-0-500-23929-2. OCLC 892891670.
  • Reviewed by the New York Times,^[23] Women's Art Journal^[24] and the London Review of Books^[25]
• 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]. ISBN 0-500-23970-3. OCLC 992571921.
  • Best art books of 2018 by the New York Times^[26]

Awards[]

In 2005, Reilly won the Future Leadership Award from ArtTable,^[27] and in 2006 she received the President Award from the Women's Caucus of Art.^[28]

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