Saul Ostrow

Saul Ostrow is an art critic and Chair of Visual Arts and Technologies at The Cleveland Institute of Art. Trained as an artist, he is best known as a critic and curator, having curated over 80 exhibitions.

Formation

Saul Ostrow received his M.F.A from The University of Massachusetts. He has taught at Pratt Institute, Syracuse University, The School of the Visual Arts and was acting head of MFA studio program at New York University and Director of the Center for Visual Art and Culture at The University of Connecticut, Storrs.

Professional activity

Since 1987, he has curated over 80 exhibition in the US and abroad. Recently he curated the important exhibition "Modeling the Photographic: The Ends of Photography" for the McDonough Museum of Art located in Youngstown, Ohio. This show examined the impact of digital art on current art practice and included internationally recognized artists such as: James Welling, Barbara Probst, Fabian Marcaccio, Joseph Nechvatal, Curtis Mitchell, Matthew Buckingham and Penny Umbrico.

Ostrow is the editor of the book series "Critical Voices in Art, Theory and Culture" published by Routledge London and is the Art Editor for Bomb Magazine. (He was Co-Editor of Lusitania Press from 1996-12004.) [ [http://www.cia.edu/faculty/directory.php?faculty_id=99] Saul Ostrow CIA Information]

His writings have appeared in numerous art magazines, journals, catalogues and books in the USA and Europe and he reviews regularly for Art in America. His essay; "Criticism as an Exemplary Supplement or Politics1 Phantom Limb (for JD)" appeared in "States of Criticism" - a book edited by James Elkins.

Footnotes

ee also

* Conceptual art
* Institutional Critique
* Postmodern art
* Electronic art
* Systems art
* New Media Art
* Generative art