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Photography & Imaging

Courses

Fall 2009: Eyeing the Image

Education

Ph.D., Columbia University

Biography

Isolde Brielmaier is a project consultant, curator and writer as well as Visiting Assistant Professor of Art at Vassar College and Guest Professor at Barnard College/Columbia University. She holds a Ph.D.  in Art History from Columbia University. Among her publications this year, Brielmaier has authored essays and texts including, Wangechi Mutu: A Shady Promise (2008) as well as Transformers: Video Installation, Space and the Art of Immersion in Cinema Remixed and Reloaded (2008). Brielmaier has written and lectured on international art and photography for several publications and institutions including PARKETT Series with Contemporary Artists, Aperture  Magazine, Phaidon Press, Nka: Journal for Contemporary African Art,  Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, The Solomon R. Guggenheim  Museum, The Brooklyn Art, The Studio Museum in Harlem,  Atlanta College of Art Gallery, Harvard  University, and College of  Santa Fe. This year, Brielmaier  is curator of several exhibitions including, Shinique Smith:

Torchsongs (2008, Atlanta); and Titus Kaphar: Painting Undone (2008,  Savannah, Ga).Brielmaier is the recipient  of numerous grants and fellowships from institutions including the Ford Foundation, the Mellon Foundation and the Social Science  Research Council. She has been profiled and noted in the New York

Times, UPTOWN Magazine, VIBE Magazine, FREE, Upscale, the Roof TV,  Miami, and WPS1 Radio in New York. Brielmaier has held managerial positions at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. She is currently a Grants Review Panelist for the Visual Arts for New York State Council  on the Arts (NYSCA) and a member of the Program Advisory Council for the Headlands Center for the Arts.  She is based in New York City.