Dr. Talia Kwartler
Vita
- 2022–Present | Guest Curator, Kunsthaus Zürich
- 2023–Present | Editor-at-Large, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
- 2022–Present | Lecturer, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Brandeis University
- Spring 2024 | Guest Lecturer, University of Zurich
- Autumn 2023 | Visiting Lecturer, Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich
- 2022 | Ph.D. History of Art, University College London
- 2020–2022 | Editor, University College London
- 2014–2018 | Curatorial Assistant, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
- 2013–2014 | 12-Month Painting and Sculpture Intern, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
- 2013 | M.St. History of Art and Visual Culture, University of Oxford
- 2012 | A.B. Art and Archaeology with a Certificate in Italian Language and Culture, Princeton University
Awards, Honors and Fellowships
- 2024 | Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte Freiraum Fellowship
- 2023 | Brandeis University Digital Fellowship
- 2022 | Stiftung Arp Research Fellowship
- 2021 | Max Weber Stiftung Gerald D. Feldman Travel Grant (2021)
- 2020 | Institut national d’histoire de l’art Research Mobility Grant for research in France
- 2018–2021 | University College London Fulbrook Faculty Scholarship (2018–2021)
- 2018 | The Museum of Modern Art Robert V. Storr Grant
- 2017 | The Museum of Modern Art Robert V. Storr Grant
- 2012 | Gamma Kappa Alpha, National Italian Honor Society
Selected Publications
Books
- Suzanne Duchamp, par elle-même. Paris: Institut Giacometti; Lyon: Éditions Fage, 2024.
Peer-Reviewed Articles
- “Dancing through Dada: Suzanne Duchamp’s Scottish Espagnole (1920),” The Art Bulletin, vol. 106, no. 3 (September 2024). [forthcoming]“
- I Shock Myself: Beatrice Wood in, and on, New York Dada,” The Cambridge Quarterly, New Research in Biography: A Symposium, ed. Nina Ellis and Emily Hull (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024), 11–21.
- “Suzanne Duchamp, Katherine Dreier, and ‘Semi-Abstract Painting,’” Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin 2020–2021, The Société Anonyme at 100 (New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 2022): 76–85.
- “Suzanne Duchamp’s Readymade Paintings,” Object: Graduate Research and Reviews in the History of Art and Visual Culture, vol. 22 (London: UCL Press, December 2020): 29–52.
Book Chapters and Catalogue Essays
- “Ein neuer Blick auf die New Yorker Dada-Frauen,” in der die DADA, ed. Julia Wallner (Remagen: Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, 2024), 112–118.
- “Teacher as Student: Sophie Taeuber in Zurich, 1915–1920,” in Transmission and Gender: Women Artists as Teachers in the 20th Century, ed. Déborah Laks and Natalia Sassu Suarez Ferri (Paris: Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte; Heidelberg: University of Heidelberg Press, 2023), 51–60.
- Anne Umland and Talia Kwartler, “Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism: ‘A Serious Affair,’” in Networking Surrealism in the USA: Networks, Agents, and the Market, ed. Julia Drost, Fabrice Flahutez, Anne Helmereich, and Martin Scheider (Paris: Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte; Heidelberg: University of Heidelberg Press, 2019), 40–76.
Edited Volumes
- Daisy Clery, Talia Kwartler, and Daisy Silver, eds., Object: Graduate Research and Reviews in the History of Art and Visual Culture, vol. 23 (London: University College London, February 2022).
- Michael Duffy, Talia Kwartler, Natalie Dupêcher, and Anne Umland, eds., Francis Picabia: Materials and Techniques (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2017). Published at mo.ma/picabia_conservation.
Reviews/Notices
- Review of Hannah Höch: Assembled Worlds at the Belvedere, Vienna, Artforum (November 2024). [forthcoming]
- Review of Nancy Holt: Circles of Light at the Gropius Bau, Berlin, Artforum (Summer 2024), 196–197.
- “Whose Story?” Review of Judy Chicago: Herstory at the New Museum, New York, Texte zur Kunst (online) (December 2023).
- Review of Simone Fattal: The Manifestations of the Voyage at Portikus, Frankfurt, Artforum (December 2023), 132.
- “What Makes Mina Loy Modern?” Review of Mary Anne Caws, Mina Loy: Apology of Genius (University of Chicago Press, 2022), and Mina Loy: Strangeness is Inevitable, ed. Jennifer Gross et al., exh. cat. (Princeton University Press and Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 2023), Oxford Art Journal (Autumn 2023), 305–320.
- Review of Futurism and Europe: The Aesthetics of a New World at the Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, The Burlington Magazine (August 2023), 906–908.
- Review of Etel Adnan at Lenbachhaus, Munich, The Burlington Magazine (February 2023), 199–201.
- “Drawing Out,” Review of Louise Bourgeois: The Woven Child at Gropius Bau, Berlin. Texte zur Kunst (December 2022), 190–193.
- “Multiple Marcels,” Review of Marcel Duchamp at Museum MMK für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Texte zur Kunst (June 2022), 188–191.
- “Material Domains,” Review of Sophie Taeuber-Arp: Living Abstraction at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Texte zur Kunst (March 2022), 230–234.
- Review of Nina Hamnett/Lisa Brice at Charleston House, Lewes, The Burlington Magazine (August 2021), 757–758.
- “Child’s Play,” Review of Kai Althoff Goes with Bernard Leach at Whitechapel Gallery, London, Texte zur Kunst (March 2021), 152–155.
- Ellen Davis and Talia Kwartler with Ana Martins, “Collage Logic in Max Ernst’s Woman, Old Man, and Flower (1923–1924): New Findings,” The Burlington Magazine (March 2021), 261–263.