RESUMÉ
RESUMÉ
Education
PhD, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK, 2010.
MA Textiles. Goldsmiths, University of London, UK, 2003.
BFA Studio Art, concentration in Fiber, Concordia University, Montreal, Québec, 2001.
Current Position
Associate Professor, Fiber and Material Studies and affiliated full-time faculty in Art History, Theory, and Criticism, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2017-present. Department chair from 2019-2022.
Guest Curator, On Loss and Absence: Textiles of Mourning and Survival, Art Institute of Chicago Textile Galleries, September 6, 2025-March 15, 2026
Co-Editor, On Loss and Absence: Textiles of Mourning and Survival, published by the Art Institute of Chicago Press and distributed by Yale University Press. Forthcoming in September 2025
Academic Symposia Chair and co-Vice President, Textile Society of America, 2023-2025.
Past professional positions
Director at-large, Textile Society of America, 2021-2023
Associate Editor Textile: Cloth and Culture, 2014-2021
Adjunct Faculty, Master of Arts in Critical and Historical Craft Studies, Warren Wilson College, 2019
Assistant Professor, Fiber and Material Studies and affiliated full-time faculty in the department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2011-2017
Selected Publications
New Demands? in Material Matters: The Art and Culture of Contemporary Textiles, Second Edition edited by Ingrid Bachmann and Ruth Scheuing, Toronto: YYZ Books, forthcoming in 2025.
New Demands? Part II, Counter Signals Vol. 4 No. 2, 2021.
The Subversive Stitch Revisited in A Companion to Textile Culture edited by Jennifer Harris, Wiley Blackwell, 2020.
The Sewing Rebellion in Makers, Crafters, Educators: Working for Cultural Change edited by Lisa Hochtritt, Elizabeth Garber, and Manisha Sharma, Routledge, 2019.
Weaving Lab: Social + Science, Surface Design Journal Summer 2019.
Unsettling 'Women's Work', catalog essay for Through Her Eye, Mana Contemporary Chicago.
ektor garcia, sangre y barro, exhibition text for ektor garcia Sangre y Barro, Cooper Cole Gallery, Toronto, Canada, 2019.
unsettling coloniality: a critical and radical fiber/textile bibliography [PDF], with Aram Han Sifuentes and Namita Gupta Wiggers, 2018.
Outside the White Cube in Exhibiting Craft and Design: Transgressing the White Cube Paradigm 1930-present edited by Alla Myzelev, Routledge, 2017.
New Demands? Part I, Counter Signals Vol. 2 No. 1, 2017.
F*** Homework: Danica Maier's Art of Domestic Subversion in Danica Maier, Grafting Propriety: From Stitch to the Drawn Line, Black Dog Press, 2016.
Victoria Stanton’s Transactional Performance in Caught in the Act: Anthology of Performance by Canadian Women, Volume II, edited by Tanya Mars and Johanna Householder, YYZ Press, 2016.
Guest Editor of “Crafting Community”, special issue of Textile: Cloth and Culture Vol.14 no.1, 2016, and co-author of Crafting Community: An Introduction, with Dr. Kirsty Robertson).
The Art of Repair, Surface Design Journal, Fall 2016.
Performing Globalization in the Textile Industry: Anne Wilson and Mandy Cano Villalobos in The Handbook of Textile Culture, edited by Janis Jefferies, Hazel Clark, And Diana Wood Conroy, Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.
Carole Frances Lung: Resisting The Global Garment Industry, Surface Design Journal, Summer/Fall 2015.
Made in Haiti: Fair Trade not Free Trade, Journal of Modern Craft online, 2012.
Garment Work: unpicking the global garment industry, Journal of Modern Craft online, 2012.
Corporeal textiles: some thoughts on the body in contemporary textile art in Art Textiles of the World: Canada, Telos Publishing, 2009.
Selected Presentations at Academic Conferences
The Monument Quilt: A Patchwork of Survival, College Art Annual Conference, New York, NY, 2023.
Unsettling Craft Histories: Colonization, Industrialization, and the Textile Crafts, Shared Ground: Cross-Disciplinary Approaches to Craft Studies, presented by the Bard Graduate Center, The Museum of Art and Design, and the Center for Craft, New York NY, 2018.
Unsettling the Fiber Canon: Unraveling a Culture of Whiteness, College Art Association Annual Conference, Los Angeles, 2018.
Praxis, Ruptures & New Forms: Discussing Racial Violence and Contemporary Art, ASAP 9, Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present, Oakland CA, 2017.
Performing Globalization: Movement, Migration and Materiality, Textile Society of America’s 15th Biennial Symposium, Savannah, Georgia, 2018. Paper nominated for the Textile Society of America Founding Presidents Award.
The 'new' subversive stitch, Textile Society of America’s 15th Biennial Symposium, Savannah, Georgia, 2018.
Subversive Stitches Across Time: the Suffragette Movement, Labor Activism and Contemporary Social Change in the Work of Carole Frances Lung, Textile Society of America’s 14th Biennial Symposium, Los Angeles CA, 2014
Co-Chair, Crafting Community: Textiles, Collaboration and Social Space, College Art Association Annual Conference, Chicago, 2014.
Carole Frances Lung’s Sewing Rebellion: Resisting the Global Apparel Industry, One Stitch at a Time, The Subversive Stitch Revisited, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK, 2013.
Crafting the social: craft, collaboration, and skill, College Art Association Annual Conference, New York City, 2013.
Co-Chair, Material Matters: The Politics of Making and Materials, Textile Society of America Symposium, Washington DC, 2012.
Performing Globalization, Performance Studies International PSi18, Leeds UK, 2012.
Performing (not-yet-postcolonial) subjectivity in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Performing Back: Theoretical and Practical Approaches for the Postcolonial Stage, University of Toronto, Canada, 2012.
Theorizing the performance of martyrdom: performance, subjectivity and Palestinian subject formation under occupation, Radical Intersections: Performance Across Disciplines, Northwestern University, 2009.
Selected Visiting Scholar Lectures
Canons, Craft, Colonialisms, 2-day module on fiber and craft histories and canons, taught as Adjunct faculty in the Master of Arts in Critical and Historical Craft Studies, Warren Wilson College, Asheville NC, 2019.
ILGWU @ ILGWU: The International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union at the Institute for Labor, Generosity, and Workers, in conjunction with the exhibit Fashion Conscious, Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art, Rancho Cucamonga CA, 2020.
Social Fabrics, Maryland College Institute of Art, 2018.
Textiles for Social Change, McKinney Visiting Artist Lecture, Indiana University, Bloomington IN, 2016.
Crafting the Social: Reskilling to Change the World, Sculpture Department, Tulane University, New Orleans, 2016.
Crafting Community, Graduate Crafts Seminar, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, 2015.
Social Fabrics, Fibers and Material Practices, Concordia University, Montreal, Québec, 2015.
Art, Spectacle, Terrorism: the end of secular politics? MFA Studio Art, Concordia University, Montreal QC, 2011.
Solo Exhibitions and Performances
New Demands? Sector 2337 Project Space, Chicago, 2017.
New Demands? Artspace NY in conjunction with Art in Action at the College Art Association annual conference, 2017.
New Demands? Spudnik Press Cooperative, Chicago IL, 2016.
New Demands? For the Thundercloud Generation, Chicago IL, 2015.
New Demands? Performance and solo exhibition, Exit Space at the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids MI, 2014.
New Demands, performance in collaboration with Grace Exhibition Space, New York NY, 2012.
New Demands? performance, Articule Gallery special projects, Montreal, 2012.
Radical Jewish emplacement, performance for Dis/locations: interdisciplinary perspectives on being out of place, Concordia University, Montréal Québec, 2011.
Selected Group Exhibitions, Festivals and Screenings
Art-In-Place, various locations, Chicago, organized by CNL Projects and Terrain Exhibitions, 2020.
Standards Variance, Public Access, Chicago, 2017.
Chicago Artist Writers, Chicago Artist Book Fair, artist print commission, 2017.
Craft Advanced Research Projects Agency, Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland OR, 2016.
I Can't Breathe, ARC Gallery, Chicago (juried by Romi Crawford), 2015.
The Power and Politics of Anger, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, 2015.
An Invisible Hand, Weinberg/Newton Gallery, 2015.
Performance Studies International 19, Stanford University, Palo Alto CA, 2013.
New Demands? 2nd Floor Rear festival, Chicago, IL, 2013.
Rapid Pulse Performance Art Festival, organized by Defibrillator Gallery, Chicago IL 2012.
Assembly, Open Engagement, Portland State University, Portland OR, 2012.
Pantheon Experimental Film and Animation Festival, Pantheon Cultural Centre, Nicosia Cypress, 2007.
Durban International Film Festival, Durban South Africa, 2007.
Varmlansk Filmfestival, Arvika Sweden, 2007.
Temporary Autonomous Art. London UK, 2007.
Naoussa International Short Film and Video Festival, Naoussa Greece, 2007.
Experimental Video at the Incubator. Arts Incubator, Kansas City MO, 2007.
Videomedeja 10th International Video Festival, The Museum of Voivodina, Novi Sad Serbia (Catalogue), 2006.
Freewaves 10th Festival of New Media Arts, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2006.
The State of the World: Personal reflections on war, politics, society, race and gender, LAAA/Film & Video 825 and Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, 2006.
Levinas: Ethics of Encounter, Centennial Conference on Levinas and Law, McGill University, Montreal, 2006.
Media Art Friesland Festival, Friesland, Netherlands, 2006.
Mobile Exposure, Dallas Video Festival, Dallas TX; Central Cinema, Seattle; Project 101, Paris; Brighton International Film Festival, Brighton UK; Clone Digital Film Festival, Helsinki, Finland; Mesa Contemporary Arts at Mesa Arts Center, Mesa AZ (Touring, DVD and catalogue, Blackchair Collection), 2006.
FilmLichter06 International Short Film Festival Detmold, Detmold Germany, 2006.
Scanners: The New York Video Festival, Lincoln Center, New York NY, 2006.
PixelDance Video Art Festival, Athens Greece, 2006.
Her Shorts Women’s International Video Festival, Tucson AZ, 2006.
European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany (Catalog), 2006.
Athens Video Art Festival, Athens Greece, 2006.
Exploding Cinema, London UK, 2006.
Videonale 11, Berlin, 2006.
VideoFormes XXIième Manifestation Internationale d’arts vidéo et nouveaux médias, Clermont-Ferrand France. Competition Prix de la Création Vidéo. (Catalog), 2006.
Democrazy, Bangkok Experimental Film Festival, Bangkok Art and Cultural Centre, Bangkok Thailand, 2005.
In Media. APT Gallery, London, UK, 2005.
Dataland, Ed Video Media Arts Centre, Guelph Canada, 2003.
flow, a new media exhibition at the Images Film and Video Festival, Toronto, Canada, 2002.
Selected Fellowships and Awards
Faculty Enrichment Grant, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2020, 2018, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012.
Craft Research Grant, Craft Research Fund, Center for Craft, Creativity and Design, Asheville NC, 2018.
Shapiro Graduate Research Fellowship for 2017-2018, School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Craft Research Fund Travel Grant, Center for Craft, Asheville, NC, 2016.
EAGER Grant, Earl and Brenda Shapiro Center for Research and Collaboration, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2016.
Finalist for the Emerging Voices Award, American Craft Council, 2014.
Craft Research Fund Travel Grant, Center for Craft, 2013.
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences in Canada (Co-applicant with Kelly Thompson and Dr. Kirsty Robertson), 2011.
Doctoral Fellowship. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2005-2008
Doctoral Fellowship, Fonds de recherche sur la société et la culture du Québec, 2005-2008.