Jack Bankowsky

BIOGRAPHY

Jack Bankowsky was the Editor-in-Chief of Artforum throughout the 1990s (1992-2003) and the founding editor of Bookforum, where he was editor from 1996 to 1998. In addition to teaching at Art Center, Jack is currently Editor-at-Large of Artforum and a freelance critic and curator. He served on the jury of the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2009, and has also taught at Yale and UCLA.

EDUCATION

B.A. Bennington College 1981 Fine Arts
Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program 1982

WORK INCLUDES

1992-2003
Artforum, Editor-in-Chief
2003-Present
Artforum, Editor-at-Large

EXHIBITIONS INCLUDE

"Pop Life: Art in a Material World" (curator), Tate Modern, London. Traveled to the Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, and the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.
2009-2010

PUBLICATIONS INCLUDE

"Ghost Studies" in No Substitute. ed. Emily Wei Rales (Potomac, Maryland: Glenstone Foundation, 2011), 35-55.
"Unplugged: Jennifer Bolande''s Special Theory of Relativity" in Jennifer Bolande: Landmarks, ed. Nicholas Frank (Zurich: JRP|Ringier, 2011), 35-43.
"Monkey House Blessing Potpurri" in Rachel Harrison: Museum With Walls, eds. Daniel Birnbaum, Iwona Blazwick and Tom Eccles (Annandale-on-Hudson, New York: Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, 2010), 137-147.
Bankowsky, Jack, Alison Gingeras and Catherine Wood, eds. Pop Life: Art in a Material World. London: Tate Publishing, 2009.
"Ciao Rensselaerville" in Richard Prince, ed. Nancy Spector (New York: Guggenheim Museum, 2007), 334-348.
Bankowsky, Jack and Alison Gingeras, eds. "''Where Are We Going?'' Selections from the Francois Pinault Collection. Milan: Skira editore S.p.A., 2006.
"Does Louise Lawler Make You Cry?" in Louise Lawler and Others, ed. Philipp Kaiser (Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany: Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2004), 75-90.

CLASSES

Graduate Seminar
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