Graduate Student, Art History
Thesis Title: Assembling Social Forms: Sociological Art Practice in Post-1968 France
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Christine Poggi
Karen Beckman Kaja Silverman |
About
Ruth Erickson is a graduate student in art history at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on modern and contemporary art, with specific interest in film and performance, art collectives, institutional critique, and social art practices. Her dissertation explores intersections between art production and the social sciences in 1970s France through the Sociological Art Movement (Fred Forest, Hervé Fischer, and Jean-Paul Thénot), and she is the recipient of a Fulbright fellowship (France, 2010-11). She has published on artists Pierre Huyghe, Vik Muniz, and Robert Smithson, and presented papers on reenactments in contemporary art and film footage produced by mounting cameras on animals' bodies. From 2004-2007, she was Curator at the Firehouse Gallery, Burlington, VT, where she organized over two-dozen exhibitions. She currently serves on the Society of Contemporary Art Historians Graduate Advisory Committee.
