Melanie Mariño
Department of Art History
End-of-Year Fellowship Report for 2005-06 to follow

Melanie Mariño is Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art in the Department of Art History. She received her Ph.D. from Cornell University in 2002. Before her arrival at UWM, she taught at the school of Visual Arts in New York City and worked in research and curatorial capacities at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Guggenheim Museum. Her recent publications include "Moving On," in The Art of Rachel Whiteread (London: Thames and Hudson, 2004) and "Disposable Matter," in The Last Picture Show (Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 2003). She is currently writing an article on the art theory and practice of Daniel Buren for the anthology "Key Contemporary Thinkers" and preparing a book manuscript on Conceptual photography. At the Center, her research will consider the autonomous gesture in contemporary art.

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