Alexandra Karl, Ph.D
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Canadian and British citizenship
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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.
 
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