A L E X A N D R A K A R L
Canadian and British citizenship
American Green Card
E D U C A T I O N
Ph.D University of Cambridge (History of Art) Cambridge, England, 2007
M.A. Ludwig Maximillians Universitat (History of Art) Munich, Germany, 1999
B.F.A University of Ottawa, (Studio Art) Ottawa, Canada, 1994
B.A University of Ottawa (Theory and History of Art) Ottawa, Canada, 1993
T E A C H I N G A P P O I N T M E N T S
2023 Sessional Lecturer
School of Languages and Literatures
University of Guelph, ON Canada
P/T Instructor
Department of Visual Arts
Brock University, St.Catharines ON Canada
2017-19 Lecturer
Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Utah Valley University, Orem UT
2014-17 Adjunct
Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Utah Valley University, Orem UT
2006-07 Adjunct
Department of Art and Art History
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
2005-06 Academic Outreach and Continuing Education
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
C O U R S E S T A U G H T
C U R A T O R I A L
2020 Wildfires in Utah Art, Homes and Lands. See 'Curatorial' for details / images
Bountiful Davis Art Center, January 8 - February 20th, 2021
2019 Through the Looking Glass: Distortion in Contemporary Utah Art
The Leonardo Museum, June 1 - October 31, 2019
Downtown Salt Lake City Library, April 2021?
P U B L I C A T I O N S
2021 Black Art in Utah Highlights Systemic Racism
REV: Black Refractions, Hyperallergic.com March 23, 2021
2021 Alex Caldiero: Outsider and Naysayer
REV Caldiero at UMOCA, Hyperallergic.com, June 12, 2021
2020 The Chilling, Little Known History of Nuclear Experiments in the US Southwest
REV Cara Despain at SUMA, Hyperallergic.com November 27, 2020
2019 Score for Wavelength. An Homage to Michael Snow.
ASAP Journal, Slowness Edition 4.3, September 2019
2018 Frank McEntire at Nox Contemporary.
Sculpture Magazine, Fall 2018
2017 Contemporary Saudi Art at UMOCA
Op-Ed, Salt Lake Tribune. 30/12/2017
2017 Adam Bateman and Levi Jackson at Rio Gallery
One Good Eye, March 2017
2017 Cara Despains at CUAC
Sculpture Magazine, March 2017.
2017 Alex Caldiero at Ken Sanders
Catalyst Magazine, January 2017
2016 Rodriego Valenzuela at CUAC
Sculpture Magazine, May 2016.
2016 Dada Centenary at Weller Book Works
Catalyst Magazine, March 2016.
2015 Conrad Bakker at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts.
Sculpture Magazine, October 2015.
2015 Adam Bateman’s Mormon Trail.
Catalyst Magazine, July 2015.
2015 Tax or Tithe? Review of ‘Church vs. State’ at UMOCA.
Catalyst Magazine, April 2015.
2015 The Sacred and the Profane. Found Objects in Contemporary Utah Art.
In: Found Objects Conference Proceedings, Department of Philosophy
and Humanities, Utah Valley University Press. Spring 2015
2014 Dog, Interrupted. Paintings by John Erickson.
Phillips Gallery, Salt Lake City. June 2014. Copy available upon request.
2014 A Natural Idiom. Waterscapes by Connie Borup.
www.artistsofutah.org January 2014.
2013 Brad Slaugh’s ‘Feast.’
www.artistsofutah.org. November 2013.
2013 Art Matriarch. How Marion Rockwood Johnson saved the Rockwood Art
Studios. Salt Lake Magazine, March 2013.
2012 The Tip of the Iceberg : Video Work at UMOCA
www.artistsofutah.org August 2012
2012 Triffids Land at Leonardo: Phillip Beesley Reviewed
www.artistsofutah.org July 2012
2012 Not Home by David Baddley
www.artistsofutah.org June 2012.
2012 Not with a Whimper but a !Bang! The Faculty Show at the UMFA.
www.artistsofutah.org
2011 McGillis Mezuzot: Community Blessings.
Coffee table book documenting student-made ceramic mezuzahs with
essay outlining the history and practice of the custom.
Auction item for school fundraiser.
2008 Darwin or Dionysus? The Fabulous Beasts of Arnold Böcklin.
In: Graciano, Andrew (ed.). New Essays on Art and Science in the Eighteenth
and Nineteenth Centuries, Cambridge Scholars Ltd, 2008.
2005 Naturfreund or Naturfeind? Darwinism in the Early Drawings of Alfred Kubin.
In: Zwierlein, Anne-Julia. Unmapped Countries : Biological Visions
in Nineteenth Century Literature and Culture. London, Anthem Press, 2005.
2000 Crème de la Crème.
Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge 2000.
Exhibtion Catatalog Nov 14 – Dec. 8, 2000.
1998 Karl, Alexandra and von Rochow, Evelin. Künstlerverzeichnis.
In: Friedel, Helmut. Viehweide und Glaspalast. Aquarelle und Zeichnungen
im Lenbachhaus 1850-1900. Bearbeitet von Dorothee Zanker von Meyer.
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich. Exhibition Catatalog Oct. 7 1998-
Jan. 10 1999.
L E C T U R E S
2021 Portrait Pebbles. Invited Speaker for 'Migration, Memory and the Visual Arts:
Second Generation (Jewish) Artists.' University of Leicester, UK (via Zoom)
youtu.be/zreIS2CoZH8?t=1370
2021 Curator's Talk for 'Wildfires in Utah Art, Lands and Homes.' Bountiful Davis
Art Center. youtu.be/jAr7jADYEsE?t=5
2020 Art Criticism in the Mormon West. Panel: Criticism between the Coasts
Association of International Art Critics, College Art Association, Chicago.
2019 Looking at Animals. Darwinism in 19th Century German Art
Invited Speaker to 'Behaving Like Animals' seminar. University of Utah
2018 SLOW SNOW: Michael Snow’s Wavelength
Invited Speaker: ASAP Symposium, Vrije Universitaet, Amsterdam.
2018 The Dream and Demise of the Arnold Friberg Museum
8th Annual Humanities Symposium, Utah Valley University.
2017 David Bowie’s Art Collection
Invited Speaker:‘David Bowie Post-Modernist’ (Dr Katherine Reed)
2017 Portrait Pebbles: an Overview
Invited Speaker: Peacebuilding Through the Arts (Dr Michael Minch)
2017 Adaptations in Art: Darwinism & Painting in Late 19th Century.
7th Annual Humanities Symposium, Utah Valley University
2016 Refugee Stories: André Aciman versus the Mainstream Media
7th Annual Humanities Symposium, Utah Valley University
2011 Darwinian Art : An Introduction.
Westminster College, Salt Lake City, UT
2009 Cercle et Carré : Reconstructing the Events
Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, Georgia
2009 Vienna: Art and Architecture
Utah Symphony and Opera Outreach Program, Salt Lake City, UT.
2008 The Fantasy Beasts of Arnold Böcklin.
York University, Toronto, Canada.
2006 Darwinian Men in Late Nineteenth Century German Art
Fierce Friends Exhibition Symposium
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh.
2004 Vestiges of Darwinism and Devolution in the Early Drawings of Alfred Kubin.
Invited speaker: Biology, Literature and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
Otto-Friedrich-Universität, Bamberg, Germany.
2004 Darwin’s Menagerie? Animal Symbolism in Selected Works by Gustav Klimt.
Association of Art Historians, Nottingham, England.
2003 The Degenerate Art of Alfred Kubin (1877-1959) : Vestiges of Darwinism
and Devolution in the Fin-de-Siecle Drawings.
Fin-de-Siècle Seminar Series, Wolfson College. Oxford.
2001 Evolution in the Classical Tradition. Darwinian Themes in Selected Paintings
by Arnold Böcklin (1827 – 1901).
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, England.
M U S E U M W O R K
2012-13 Co-Founder, Curator
DUNCE School for the Arts, Rockwood Artist Studios, Salt Lake City, UT
www.facebook.com/pg/Dunce-School-for-the-Arts-358731730842649/photos/?ref=page_internal
A multi-disciplinary space devoted to experimental practices (performance,
visual art, music, sound, poetry, spoken word and video) in Salt Lake City.
Roles included artist liaison, curatorial work, workshop organization,
participant coordination, website design and MC presentations.
2010 Curatorial Consultant
Museum of Utah Art and History, Salt Lake City, Utah
Authoring hundreds of descriptions of Utah paintings
(19th and 20th centuries) for MUAH Virtual Museum
2000 Curator, Crème de la Crème
Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge, England
Curated exhibition featuring work from three British art schools
(St. Martin’s, Goldsmiths and Norwich School of Art and Design)
Organization of exhibition (transport, installation, dismantling),
catalog essays and artist support.
1994 - 1998 Curatorial Assistant
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus. Munich, Germany.
Cataloging works on paper, Munich schools, 17th cent to present, including
Der Blaue Reiter. Archived all museum catalogs from 1927-1972; transcribed
artists’ correspondence (incl. Kandinsky, Franz and Maria Marc) and exhibition
support. English translation of museum correspondence, loan negotiation,
foreign exhibition contracts and catalog essays.
1991-1992 Apprenticeship
National Gallery of Canada, Musée des beaux-arts du Canada
Once year apprenticeship in the Education Department.
G U I D E D T O U R S
2011 Frank Lloyd Wright’s Stromquist House
Bountiful, Utah. Fundraiser for The McGillis School.
2009 Martinis & Modernism
The Dorothy Bernstein Collection of Modern American Art.
(Rauschenberg, Rosenquist, Stella, Lichtenstein et al.)
Private Residence, Salt Lake City, UT. Fundraiser for McGillis School.
2008,09,10 Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty (1970)
Rozel Point, Great Salt Lake, Utah. Fundraiser for The McGillis School.
A W A R D S
2001 Brancusi Prize for Art History
University of Cambridge
2000 DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service)
Short Term Research Grant
2000 TIARKS German Scholarship : Research Grant
University of Cambridge
1999 Brancusi Prize for Art History
University of Cambridge
M E M B E R S H I P S
Association of International Art Critics (AICA)
Association of the Arts of the Present (ASAP)
College Art Association (CAA)
Humanities Education Research Association (HERA)
L A N G U A G E S : English, German, French.
R E F E R E N C E S G L A D L Y P R O V I D E D.
Canadian and British citizenship
American Green Card
E D U C A T I O N
Ph.D University of Cambridge (History of Art) Cambridge, England, 2007
M.A. Ludwig Maximillians Universitat (History of Art) Munich, Germany, 1999
B.F.A University of Ottawa, (Studio Art) Ottawa, Canada, 1994
B.A University of Ottawa (Theory and History of Art) Ottawa, Canada, 1993
T E A C H I N G A P P O I N T M E N T S
2023 Sessional Lecturer
School of Languages and Literatures
University of Guelph, ON Canada
P/T Instructor
Department of Visual Arts
Brock University, St.Catharines ON Canada
2017-19 Lecturer
Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Utah Valley University, Orem UT
2014-17 Adjunct
Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Utah Valley University, Orem UT
2006-07 Adjunct
Department of Art and Art History
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
2005-06 Academic Outreach and Continuing Education
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
C O U R S E S T A U G H T
- Contemporary Issues in Canadian Visual Culture
- Science and Visual Art
- Gender and Modernism in Europe 1848-1920
- Mothers: In Art, Literature and Culture
- Monsters in Art History. Antiquity to Present
- Pranksters and Provocateurs. Scandals in Art History
- Humanities Through the Arts
- Introduction to Art History
- Art and Science
C U R A T O R I A L
2020 Wildfires in Utah Art, Homes and Lands. See 'Curatorial' for details / images
Bountiful Davis Art Center, January 8 - February 20th, 2021
2019 Through the Looking Glass: Distortion in Contemporary Utah Art
The Leonardo Museum, June 1 - October 31, 2019
Downtown Salt Lake City Library, April 2021?
P U B L I C A T I O N S
2021 Black Art in Utah Highlights Systemic Racism
REV: Black Refractions, Hyperallergic.com March 23, 2021
2021 Alex Caldiero: Outsider and Naysayer
REV Caldiero at UMOCA, Hyperallergic.com, June 12, 2021
2020 The Chilling, Little Known History of Nuclear Experiments in the US Southwest
REV Cara Despain at SUMA, Hyperallergic.com November 27, 2020
2019 Score for Wavelength. An Homage to Michael Snow.
ASAP Journal, Slowness Edition 4.3, September 2019
2018 Frank McEntire at Nox Contemporary.
Sculpture Magazine, Fall 2018
2017 Contemporary Saudi Art at UMOCA
Op-Ed, Salt Lake Tribune. 30/12/2017
2017 Adam Bateman and Levi Jackson at Rio Gallery
One Good Eye, March 2017
2017 Cara Despains at CUAC
Sculpture Magazine, March 2017.
2017 Alex Caldiero at Ken Sanders
Catalyst Magazine, January 2017
2016 Rodriego Valenzuela at CUAC
Sculpture Magazine, May 2016.
2016 Dada Centenary at Weller Book Works
Catalyst Magazine, March 2016.
2015 Conrad Bakker at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts.
Sculpture Magazine, October 2015.
2015 Adam Bateman’s Mormon Trail.
Catalyst Magazine, July 2015.
2015 Tax or Tithe? Review of ‘Church vs. State’ at UMOCA.
Catalyst Magazine, April 2015.
2015 The Sacred and the Profane. Found Objects in Contemporary Utah Art.
In: Found Objects Conference Proceedings, Department of Philosophy
and Humanities, Utah Valley University Press. Spring 2015
2014 Dog, Interrupted. Paintings by John Erickson.
Phillips Gallery, Salt Lake City. June 2014. Copy available upon request.
2014 A Natural Idiom. Waterscapes by Connie Borup.
www.artistsofutah.org January 2014.
2013 Brad Slaugh’s ‘Feast.’
www.artistsofutah.org. November 2013.
2013 Art Matriarch. How Marion Rockwood Johnson saved the Rockwood Art
Studios. Salt Lake Magazine, March 2013.
2012 The Tip of the Iceberg : Video Work at UMOCA
www.artistsofutah.org August 2012
2012 Triffids Land at Leonardo: Phillip Beesley Reviewed
www.artistsofutah.org July 2012
2012 Not Home by David Baddley
www.artistsofutah.org June 2012.
2012 Not with a Whimper but a !Bang! The Faculty Show at the UMFA.
www.artistsofutah.org
2011 McGillis Mezuzot: Community Blessings.
Coffee table book documenting student-made ceramic mezuzahs with
essay outlining the history and practice of the custom.
Auction item for school fundraiser.
2008 Darwin or Dionysus? The Fabulous Beasts of Arnold Böcklin.
In: Graciano, Andrew (ed.). New Essays on Art and Science in the Eighteenth
and Nineteenth Centuries, Cambridge Scholars Ltd, 2008.
2005 Naturfreund or Naturfeind? Darwinism in the Early Drawings of Alfred Kubin.
In: Zwierlein, Anne-Julia. Unmapped Countries : Biological Visions
in Nineteenth Century Literature and Culture. London, Anthem Press, 2005.
2000 Crème de la Crème.
Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge 2000.
Exhibtion Catatalog Nov 14 – Dec. 8, 2000.
1998 Karl, Alexandra and von Rochow, Evelin. Künstlerverzeichnis.
In: Friedel, Helmut. Viehweide und Glaspalast. Aquarelle und Zeichnungen
im Lenbachhaus 1850-1900. Bearbeitet von Dorothee Zanker von Meyer.
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich. Exhibition Catatalog Oct. 7 1998-
Jan. 10 1999.
L E C T U R E S
2021 Portrait Pebbles. Invited Speaker for 'Migration, Memory and the Visual Arts:
Second Generation (Jewish) Artists.' University of Leicester, UK (via Zoom)
youtu.be/zreIS2CoZH8?t=1370
2021 Curator's Talk for 'Wildfires in Utah Art, Lands and Homes.' Bountiful Davis
Art Center. youtu.be/jAr7jADYEsE?t=5
2020 Art Criticism in the Mormon West. Panel: Criticism between the Coasts
Association of International Art Critics, College Art Association, Chicago.
2019 Looking at Animals. Darwinism in 19th Century German Art
Invited Speaker to 'Behaving Like Animals' seminar. University of Utah
2018 SLOW SNOW: Michael Snow’s Wavelength
Invited Speaker: ASAP Symposium, Vrije Universitaet, Amsterdam.
2018 The Dream and Demise of the Arnold Friberg Museum
8th Annual Humanities Symposium, Utah Valley University.
2017 David Bowie’s Art Collection
Invited Speaker:‘David Bowie Post-Modernist’ (Dr Katherine Reed)
2017 Portrait Pebbles: an Overview
Invited Speaker: Peacebuilding Through the Arts (Dr Michael Minch)
2017 Adaptations in Art: Darwinism & Painting in Late 19th Century.
7th Annual Humanities Symposium, Utah Valley University
2016 Refugee Stories: André Aciman versus the Mainstream Media
7th Annual Humanities Symposium, Utah Valley University
2011 Darwinian Art : An Introduction.
Westminster College, Salt Lake City, UT
2009 Cercle et Carré : Reconstructing the Events
Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, Georgia
2009 Vienna: Art and Architecture
Utah Symphony and Opera Outreach Program, Salt Lake City, UT.
2008 The Fantasy Beasts of Arnold Böcklin.
York University, Toronto, Canada.
2006 Darwinian Men in Late Nineteenth Century German Art
Fierce Friends Exhibition Symposium
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh.
2004 Vestiges of Darwinism and Devolution in the Early Drawings of Alfred Kubin.
Invited speaker: Biology, Literature and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
Otto-Friedrich-Universität, Bamberg, Germany.
2004 Darwin’s Menagerie? Animal Symbolism in Selected Works by Gustav Klimt.
Association of Art Historians, Nottingham, England.
2003 The Degenerate Art of Alfred Kubin (1877-1959) : Vestiges of Darwinism
and Devolution in the Fin-de-Siecle Drawings.
Fin-de-Siècle Seminar Series, Wolfson College. Oxford.
2001 Evolution in the Classical Tradition. Darwinian Themes in Selected Paintings
by Arnold Böcklin (1827 – 1901).
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, England.
M U S E U M W O R K
2012-13 Co-Founder, Curator
DUNCE School for the Arts, Rockwood Artist Studios, Salt Lake City, UT
www.facebook.com/pg/Dunce-School-for-the-Arts-358731730842649/photos/?ref=page_internal
A multi-disciplinary space devoted to experimental practices (performance,
visual art, music, sound, poetry, spoken word and video) in Salt Lake City.
Roles included artist liaison, curatorial work, workshop organization,
participant coordination, website design and MC presentations.
2010 Curatorial Consultant
Museum of Utah Art and History, Salt Lake City, Utah
Authoring hundreds of descriptions of Utah paintings
(19th and 20th centuries) for MUAH Virtual Museum
2000 Curator, Crème de la Crème
Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge, England
Curated exhibition featuring work from three British art schools
(St. Martin’s, Goldsmiths and Norwich School of Art and Design)
Organization of exhibition (transport, installation, dismantling),
catalog essays and artist support.
1994 - 1998 Curatorial Assistant
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus. Munich, Germany.
Cataloging works on paper, Munich schools, 17th cent to present, including
Der Blaue Reiter. Archived all museum catalogs from 1927-1972; transcribed
artists’ correspondence (incl. Kandinsky, Franz and Maria Marc) and exhibition
support. English translation of museum correspondence, loan negotiation,
foreign exhibition contracts and catalog essays.
1991-1992 Apprenticeship
National Gallery of Canada, Musée des beaux-arts du Canada
Once year apprenticeship in the Education Department.
G U I D E D T O U R S
2011 Frank Lloyd Wright’s Stromquist House
Bountiful, Utah. Fundraiser for The McGillis School.
2009 Martinis & Modernism
The Dorothy Bernstein Collection of Modern American Art.
(Rauschenberg, Rosenquist, Stella, Lichtenstein et al.)
Private Residence, Salt Lake City, UT. Fundraiser for McGillis School.
2008,09,10 Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty (1970)
Rozel Point, Great Salt Lake, Utah. Fundraiser for The McGillis School.
A W A R D S
2001 Brancusi Prize for Art History
University of Cambridge
2000 DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service)
Short Term Research Grant
2000 TIARKS German Scholarship : Research Grant
University of Cambridge
1999 Brancusi Prize for Art History
University of Cambridge
M E M B E R S H I P S
Association of International Art Critics (AICA)
Association of the Arts of the Present (ASAP)
College Art Association (CAA)
Humanities Education Research Association (HERA)
L A N G U A G E S : English, German, French.
R E F E R E N C E S G L A D L Y P R O V I D E D.
