Kelly Baum
Locks Curatorial Fellow for Contemporary Art
Kelly Baum received a Ph.D. from the University of Delaware in 2005. From 2002 to 2007, she was the assistant curator of American and contemporary art at the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin. She has published many articles, brochures, and catalogues on contemporary art. She also has organized several exhibitions, including monographic presentations on Carol Bove and Jedediah Caesar, as well as such group shows as The Sirens' Song (2007), which explored the narrative impulse in contemporary painting, and Transactions (2007), which focused on artists who utilize alternative or extra-institutional systems of distribution. Kelly's area of specialty extends to the art of the 1960s and 1970s as well. She is preparing a chapter from her dissertation on the Situationist International, a group of artists, activists, and philosophers based in Europe between 1957 and 1972, for publication in October magazine in late 2008.
