Catherine Lord

Catherine Lord (born 1949) is an American artist, writer, curator, social activist, professor, scholar exploring themes of feminism, cultural politics and colonialism. In 2010, she was awarded the Harvard Arts Medal.

Born in Dominica, she attended a British boarding school in Barbados. When she was 13, they moved to Iowa.

While attending Radcliffe College, where she majored in English, she worked as a research assistant at the Schlesigner Library. She earned her Master's of Fine Arts degree in photography and the history of photography at the Visual Studies Workshop, an artists' organization allied with the State University of New York at Buffalo. Lord also edited Afterimage, a journal of photography, film, and video.

Her work includes The Effect of Tropical Light on White Men and "text/image project". She edited the catalogue for an exhibition of lesbian art, "All but the Obvious".

Lord has curated a number of exhibitions, including:"Pervert," "Trash," “Gender, fucked,” and "Memories of Overdevelopment: Philippine Diaspora in Contemporary Visual Art."

Lord published an experimental narrative, The Summer of Her Baldness: A Cancer Improvisation, where she shares her experience of gender during chemotherapy.

For seven years, Lord served Dean of the School of Art at the California Institute of the Arts. 1990-1995, she was the Chairman of the Art department at UC Irvine. 1991-1996, Lord was the Director of the UCI Gallery.

From October 3 through November 7, "And 22 Million Very Tired and Very Angry People" was an installation by Carrie Mae Weems. In winter quarter, January 7 through February 4, "Convergence: Eight Photographers", which was organized by Deborah Willis, curator of the Schoenberg Center of Black American Art in New York. It showcased black artists' perspective.

In 2008, she was named the Shirley Carter Burden Visiting Professor of Photography at Harvard University. In 2010, she received the Harvard Arts Medal.

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