Kirsten Swenson teaches courses in contemporary art history, criticism, and theory. Her scholarship and critical writing focus on minimal and conceptual art and their legacies, performance and performative strategies in art of the 1960s and 1970s, and feminist theory. Prior to arriving at UNLV in the fall of 2007, Professor Swenson taught at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, New York University, and the State University of New York. She has held fellowships at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Professor Swenson’s doctoral dissertation, completed in 2006, was on the sculptor Eva Hesse. She is currently at work on a book project on the emergence of “post-studio” strategies in Los Angeles and New York in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Education
• Ph.D. State University of New York at Stony Brook
Courses
ART 434 Special Topics in Contemporary Art: Fall, 2008 - Contemporary Art and its Public
ART 475 History of Photography
ART 477/677 Art Since 1945
ART 737 Critical Theory: Fall, 2007 - The Politics of Place; Spring, 2008 - Theory and the Body; Spring 2009 - Las Vegas, Los Angeles: Sites of Postmodernism
Art in America, Feb 2008 features an article by Dr. Swenson, Sin City Slickers
Art in America, May 2008 features an article by Dr. Swenson, If Walls Could Speak
Kirsten Swenson teaches courses in contemporary art history, criticism, and theory. Her scholarship and critical writing focus on minimal and conceptual art and their legacies, performance and performative strategies in art of the 1960s and 1970s, and feminist theory. Prior to arriving at UNLV in the fall of 2007, Professor Swenson taught at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, New York University, and the State University of New York. She has held fellowships at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Professor Swenson’s doctoral dissertation, completed in 2006, was on the sculptor Eva Hesse. She is currently at work on a book project on the emergence of “post-studio” strategies in Los Angeles and New York in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Education
• Ph.D. State University of New York at Stony Brook
Courses
ART 434 Special Topics in Contemporary Art: Fall, 2008 - Contemporary Art and its Public
ART 475 History of Photography
ART 477/677 Art Since 1945
ART 737 Critical Theory: Fall, 2007 - The Politics of Place; Spring, 2008 - Theory and the Body; Spring 2009 - Las Vegas, Los Angeles: Sites of Postmodernism
Art in America, Feb 2008 features an article by Dr. Swenson, Sin City Slickers
Art in America, May 2008 features an article by Dr. Swenson, If Walls Could Speak