Mario A. Caro - Curriculum Vitae

Teaching

2011 - Present
John W. Draper Interdisciplinary Program in Humanities and Social Thought
New York University
Assistant Professor/Fellow

2011 - Spring
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lecturer in Art, Culture, and Technology Graduate Program

2009 - 2011
The City University of New York
Lecturer in Art History

2005 - 2007
Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis
Public Scholar of Contemporary Art
Art History and Museum Studies

2004-2005
Otis College of Art and Design, Lecturer of Contemporary Art Theory.

2000 - 2004
The Evergreen State College, Assistant Professor of Visual Studies.

Courses:
-Intersections of Cultures
-Difference and Desire: Sex and Race in Society, Medicine, and Film
-The Politics of Sin and Punishment
-Theatre Laboratorium: Body/Sex - Space/Place - Voice/Text

2000 - 2002
United States Open University, Instructor.

1999 - 2000
Wichita State University, Visiting Professor of Art History.

Spring , 1999
University of New York at Buffalo, Visiting Professor in Art Department and Art History Department.

-Topics in 20th Century Photography

1994 - 1998
University of Rochester, Part-time instructor of art history.

-Art Now: An Introduction to Contemporary Art

Publications

Author

“Why Essentialism? Why Now?” In Essentially Indigenous? Critical Engagements with Contemporary Indigenous Arts. Eds. Kathleen Ash-Milby and Mario A. Caro. Smithsonian Institution, forthcoming.

"Owning the Image: Indigenous Arts since 1990.” In Manifestations: New Native Art Criticism. Ed. Nancy Marie Mithlo. Santa Fe: Institute of American Indian Arts, 2011.

Review of About Face: Self-Portraits by Native American, First Nations, and Inuit Artists, by Zena Pearlstone, Allan J. Ryan, et al. American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 32:2 (2008): 109-112.

“The NMAI and the Siting of Identity.” In The National Museum of the American Indian: Critical Conversations. Eds. Amy Lonetree and Amanda J. Cobb. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008.

“It’s in Our Forms.” In It’s In Our Forms: Selected Interviews with Northwest Native Carvers. Ed. Mario A. Caro. Olympia: House of Welcome Publishing, 2008.

"You are Here: The National Museum of the American Indian as Site of Identification," American Indian Quarterly, 30:4 (Fall 2006): 543-557.

"Persistent Encounters: Maintaining Indigenous Identity through Cultural Exchange," in Hitéemlkiliiksix "Within the Circle of the Rim": Nations Gathering on Common Ground. Ed. Mario A. Caro. Seattle: Hemlock Press, 2002.

"Laura Aguilar." In St. James Guide to Hispanic Artists: Profiles of Latino and Latin American Artists. Ed. Thomas Riggs. Detroit: St. James Press, 2002.

"Desiring the End of Testimonio: Rigoberta Menchú inside the Teaching Machine," S - The European Journal for Semiotic Studies. 9:1 (1997): 11-32.

"Inter-disciplining the Internet: Territory, Desire, and the Virtual Academy." Brief. "Voices and Visions of Otherness." ASCA Press: Amsterdam (1997): 214 216.

"From Subaltern to Organic Intellectual: Re-(e)valuating Rigoberta Menchú's Testimonio." Acolit. Special Issue No. 2, "Can 'the Subaltern' Be Read? The Role of the Critic in Postcolonial Studies." Ed. Tobias Döring, Uwe Schäfer, and Mark Stein. (1996): 9-22.

Editor

Essentially Indigenous? Native Arts, Perspectives, and Provocations. Ed. Mario A. Caro and Kathleen Ash-Milby. Smithsonian and School for Advanced Research, forthcoming.

It’s in Our Forms: Selected Interviews with Northwest Native Carvers. Ed. Mario A. Caro. Olympia: House of Welcome Publishing, 2008.

Cultural Luminaries: Illuminating the Past, Lighting the Way into the Future. Eds. Mario A. Caro, Tina Kuckkahn, and Esmé Ryan. Olympia, Washington: House of Welcome Publishing, 2006.

Hitéemlkiliiksix "Within the Circle of the Rim": Nations Gathering on Common Ground. Seattle: Hemlock Press, 2002.

Founding Editor: In[ ]Visible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Studies.
http://www.rochester.edu/in_visible_culture/ivchome.html

S - The European Journal for Semiotic Studies. Special issue on "Territorialism and Desire" co-edited with Mieke Bal. Volume 9, no. 1 (1997).

Exhibitions and Public Lectures

8/7/2011
Working Progress: The World of Art Residencies
Shin Minatomura, BankArt, Yokohama Triennial, Japan

7/24/2011
Traumatic Nostalgia: Themes in Contemporary Indigenous Photography
Yamaguchi Institute for Contemporary Art, Yamaguchi, Japan

4/9/2011
Accommodating the Other/The Relativity of Cultural Exchange
Chaired panel at TransCultural Exchange Conference, Boston, Massachusetts

4/4/2011
Essential Aesthetics: Trauma, Nostalgia, and Indigenous Arts in the Pacific
Lecture at Humanities Center, University of Connecticut

12/2/2010
Recuperating Nostalgia: Trauma and Self-Representation in Contemporary Indigenous Art Practices
Lecture at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

3/16/2010
Self and Place: Native American Self-Representation, CUNY, Staten Island
Public lecture on Indigenous self-portraiture and landscape.

5/14/2009
The 8th Japanese Artist-in-Residence Network Forum, Tokyo
Delivered keynote address titled “Networking beyond Networks: Art Residencies within a Global Cultural Economy.”

2008-2009
Alaska House, New York
Curator of Indigenous Art

7/21-22/2007
In the Spirit: Northwest Arts Market & Festival, Washington State History Museum.
2007Assisted in the programming and execution of Northwest Native American arts market.

3/30/07
James Luna, Fire, Movement, Water and Voices
34th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Art History Society, Indianapolis
Assisted in the programming of work by performance artist James Luna.

11/12- 12/8/06
What Comes Naturally: Bruce Cook and Anna Hoover, Daybreak Star, Seattle.
Curated exhibition of contemporary Indigenous art.

6/17- 9/5/06
The Eternal Thread, The Museum at Warm Springs, Oregon.
Assisted in the installation and opening of exhibition featuring Maori weaving.

2/9/06
Wood, Paper, Glass. Squaxin Island Museum, Shelton, Washington.
Co-curated an exhibition of native art from Ford Foundation workshops by Susan Point, Melanie Yazzie, and Preston Singletary.

4/17/04
"Indigenous Cinema: Native Women and Filmmaking," Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Organized film screening and panel discussion addressing issues relevant to native women filmmakers.

1/9/2004
"The Native as Image: Art History as a Colonial Discourse," University of California at Santa Barbara.

3/26/2003
Hitéemlkiliiksix "Within the Circle of the Rim": Nations Gathering on Common Ground
Installed exhibition at City University of New York, New York City.

4/8-5/3/2003
Colonial Visions, The Evergreen State College.
Curated exhibition featuring installations by Karen K. Kosasa and Marie Watt.

3/8/2002
"Appropriation and/as Postmodernism," lecture at the Whitireia Polytechnic, Porirua, New Zealand/Aotearoa.

2002- 2004
Hitéemlkiliiksix "Within the Circle of the Rim": Nations Gathering on Common Ground
Co-curated traveling exhibition, with Ann McCormack, featuring seventy-one artists from the Pacific Rim, which toured venues across the U.S. and ended its tour in New Zealand/Aotearoa.

6/24-7/2001
asta’bsHil3b axw ti qa’qtu: “The Return to the Swing,” The Evergreen State College
Curated exhibition of contemporary native art.

6/30/2000
Trish Higgins Gallery, Wichita, Kansas Participant in roundtable on the relevance of contemporary graffiti-based art.

2/14/2000
"The Aesthetics of Globalization and Native American Art," lecture at The Evergreen State College.

5/21/1999
"Museum Practices and Native American Self-Representation," lecture at Arkansas State University.

5/17/1999
"Art History and the Native as Image," lecture at Wichita State University.

5/3/1999
"Contemporary Native American Art and Nationalism," lecture at Southwest Missouri State University.

Selected Conferences, Seminars, Institutes, and Workshops

5/5-7/2011
Essentially Indigenous? Contemporary Native Arts Symposium
Co-organized with Kathleen Ash-Milby, a symposium on contemporary Indigenous arts at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American Indian in New York City.

11/16-20/09
Essential Aesthetics: An Exploration of Contemporary Indigenous Art and Identity, Santa Fe
Organized a seminar on essentialism and contemporary Indigenous art practices co-sponsored by the National Museum of the American Indian, the School for American Research, and the Insitute of American Indian Arts. Participants consisted of international Indigenous scholars and artists.

3/30/07
34th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Art History Society, Indianapolis
Co-chaired panel on globalization and presented paper titled “Globalization and the Practices of Art History.”

9/15/06
Preserving our Pasts, Telling our Stories: Indians, Museums, and the Management of History, University of Oregon.
Presented paper titled “Rethinking Dioramas: Considering the Production of Space in Tribal Museums.”

10/28/2005
14th Native American Art Studies Association Conference, Scottsdale, Arizona.
Organized panel titled “Museums, Nationalisms, and Representation.”

2/19/2004
Contemporary Northwest Native, First Nations, and Alaskan Native Arts
College Art Association, Seattle.
Co-chaired panel with Marie Watt on professional development issues for contemporary native artists.

11/5-8/2003
13th Native American Art Studies Association Conference, Salem, Massachusetts
Respondent for panel titled "Indigenous Arts on a World Stage."

6/23 - 8/1, 2003
Working from Community: American Indian Art and Literature in a Historical and Cultural Context, The Evergreen State College
Organizing committee and faculty for National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute.

2002 - 2005
Hitéemlkiliiksix "Within the Circle of the Rim": Nations Gathering on Common Ground. Traveling exhibition featuring seventy-one artists from the Pacific Rim.

7/6 - 9/2002
Indigenous Art and Heritage Conference, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand/Aotearoa.
Presented paper titled "Commodifying Native Objects/Legislating Native Identity: The Essential Native Artist as Producer."

3/1 - 10/2002
Toi Maori and Pataka Museum Festival, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa.
Lecturer and participant at various workshops and panels.

10/24 - 27/2001
12th Native American Art Studies Association Conference, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon. Chaired panel titled "The Image as Self: Strategies for Self-representation."

6/26 - 30/2001
Return to the Swing, The Evergreen State College.
Assisted in the organization of an institute that brought together sixty-eight native artists from the Pacific Rim. I also co-curated an exhibition featuring the work of the participants.

2/28 - 3/3/2001
College Art Association, Chicago.
Co-chaired a panel with Jolene Rickard titled "The Native Artist as Critical Historian: Aesthetics, Histories, and Nationalisms in a Colonial World"

9/3 - 8/2000
Thirtieth International Congress of the History of Art, Comité International d'Histoire de l'Art, London.
Presented paper titled "Testifying Bodies: Nationalisms, Aesthetics and Contemporary Native American Art."

4/13 - 15/2000
Native American/First Nations Studies Conference, Boise State University.
Delivered essay titled "Nationalisms and Aesthetics: Globalization and Native American Art."

9/30 - 10/2/1999
Re-Imagining Multiculturalism, Monash University, Australia.
Presented essay titled "The Native as Artist: Nationalism, History, and Aesthetics in a Colonial World."

6/27 - 7/30/1999
Getty Summer Institute, University of Rochester.
Assisted in organization of institute on Art History and Visual Studies.

6/28 - 7/31/1998
Getty Summer Institute, University of Rochester.
Assisted in organization of institute on Visual and Cultural Studies.

3/8/1998
33rd Annual UCLA Art History Graduate Student Symposium
Delivered essay titled "Mobile Borders - Stationary Bodies: Nationalism and Images of the American Native."

2/27/1998
College Art Association, Toronto.
Presented paper titled "Why Warburg? Why Now? Troping Hybridity in/as Cultural Studies."

8/5 - 9/1996
Territorialism and Desire, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam.
Co-chaired workshop with Mieke Bal as part of "Culture-Sign-Space" semiotics conference. Presented paper "Writing the Space of the Subaltern: Testimonio and 'Latin American' Literature."

4/12-13/1996
Can 'the Subaltern' Be Read? The Role of the Critic in Postcolonial Studies, University of Frankfurt.
Presented paper titled "From Subaltern to Organic Intellectual: Re-(e)valuating Rigoberta Menchú's Testimonio."

6/27-30/1995
The Practice of Cultural Analysis, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam.
Presented paper titled "Re(al)locating Intention: Negotiating Other Translations in Art History."

4/7- 8/1995
Mining the Field / Filling the Blanks, Visual and Cultural Studies, University of Rochester.
Delivered paper titled "(Dis)Covering the Pre-Columbian Past."

2/25/1995
Borders and Cultures International Conference, McGill University.
Moderator/respondent for "Borders and Film" panel.