Elaine A. King Bio

Elaine A. King received an interdisciplinary Ph.D. from Northwestern University (1986) in Theory and History of Art, and holds a joint master’s degree in Art History and Public Policy and a B.S. in Art History and American History from Northern Illinois University. American University has selected Elaine A. King to be the Distinguished Art Historian in Residence for the International Program in Corciano, Italy in 2007. King is interested in government funding/policy and contemporary art from 1945 to present time. In addition to teaching at Carnegie Mellon, Dr. King served as the Executive Director and Curator of the Carnegie Mellon Art Gallery (1985-1991), and of the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati (1995-97. Throughout her career as a curator she organized a wide range of one-person and group exhibitions and catalogues for such artists as Barry Le Va, Martin Puryear, Tishan Hsu, Howard BenTree, Gordan Matta-Clark, Elizabeth Murray, Mel Bochner, Nancy Spero, Robert Wilson, David Humphrey, and Martha Rosler. In September 2006, she published a timely anthology titled Ethics and the Visual Arts that she and Gail Levin co-edited. Currently, she is writing a book titled, IN YOUR FACE: Portraits 1960-2006 –it will also become an exhibition. Dr. King is an active member of the Association of International Art Critics, and has given papers at International Congresses in England, Wales, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, and Barbados. She is a freelance critic who writes for Sculpture, Art on Paper, Grapheion, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and the Washington Post.

	*Elaine A. King, Professor of the History of Art & Theory*
	Elaine A. King received an interdisciplinary Ph.D. from Northwestern University (1986) in Theory and History of Art, and holds a joint master’s degree in Art History and Public Policy and a B.S. in Art History and American History from Northern Illinois University. American University has selected Elaine A. King to be the Distinguished Art Historian in Residence for the International Program in Corciano, Italy in 2007. King is interested in government funding/policy and contemporary art from 1945 to present time. In addition to teaching at Carnegie Mellon, Dr. King served as the Executive Director and Curator of the Carnegie Mellon Art Gallery (1985-1991), and of the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati (1995-97. Throughout her career as a curator she organized a wide range of one-person and group exhibitions and catalogues for such artists as Barry Le Va, Martin Puryear, Tishan Hsu, Howard BenTree, Gordan Matta-Clark, Elizabeth Murray, Mel Bochner, Nancy Spero, Robert Wilson, David Humphrey, and Martha Rosler. In September 2006, she published a timely anthology titled Ethics and the Visual Arts that she and Gail Levin co-edited. Currently, she is writing a book titled, IN YOUR FACE: Portraits 1960-2006 –it will also become an exhibition. Dr. King is an active member of the Association of International Art Critics, and has given papers at International Congresses in England, Wales, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, and Barbados. She is a freelance critic who writes for Sculpture, Art on Paper, Grapheion, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and the Washington Post.