Renowned curator, critic, painter, and writer Robert Storr returns to SITE SANTA FE for an evening of insightful conversation. Storr will examine his role as curator of the 5th SITE SANTA FE International, Disparities and Deformations: Our Grotesque and will bring in additional perspectives from having served as curator of the 52nd Venice Biennale, Think with the Senses–Feel with the Mind: Art in the Present Tense. Carina Evangelista, Director at Zane Bennett Contemporary Art, will engage Storr in conversation on the critical importance of cultivating artistic practices and providing platforms for contemporary voices at a time that Storr has cited as one that calls for “recentering—while hypertasking—while rolling with the punches.”

For Piet's Sake—Old and New Paintings, featuring Storr’s paintings and drawings, opens at Zane Bennett the previous evening on Friday, October 31. A portfolio of prints based on Storr’s drawings marks the inaugural edition of ZB Editions, which are printed by Santa Fe-based master printer James Bourland.

Presenters

Robert Storr

Robert Storr is a painter living in Brooklyn, NY. Artist, critic, and curator, he served as Dean of the Yale School of Art [2006-2016]; Artistic Director, Venice Biennale [2007]; Rosalie Solow Professor of Modern Art at the Institute of Fine Arts, NY [2002-2006]; and Curator then Senior Curator at the Museum of Modern Art, NY [1990-2002].

Born in Portland, Maine, he was educated at the University of Chicago Laboratory School and Le Collège Cévenol near Lyon, France. His undergraduate studies in History and Art History at Swarthmore College sponsored his stint as an assistant to David Alfaro Siqueiros on his final mural project at The Polyforum Cultural Siqueiros in Mexico City, Mexico. Later, he took courses at the School of The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and received his MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago. Now the Dean Emeritus of Yale School of Art, he has exhibited in museums and galleries in the US and Europe. His work is in numerous private collections, as well as Buffalo AKG Museum, Buffalo, NY; Kansas City Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO; Mead Museum, Amherst College, MA; Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York; Portland Museum of Art, ME; and Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT.

Storr has served as a curator at museums and biennials in North and South America, Europe, and Japan; and has published on art extensively worldwide. A frequent lecturer in the U.S. and abroad, Storr has taught at the Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, City University of New York Graduate Center, Harvard University, New York Studio School, Rhode Island School of Design, and Tyler School of Art. His writings–encompassing nearly a thousand works—are informed by his deep engagement with current affairs and political history.

Carina Evangelista

Carina Evangelista, Director at Zane Bennett Contemporary Art in Santa Fe, has three decades of curatorial or editorial experience at institutions both in the US and the Philippines, cutting her curatorial teeth on exhibitions organized by Robert Storr at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA). She has served as Senior Director of Curatorial Affairs at Oklahoma Contemporary; as Deputy Director and subsequently Interim Director at Asia Society Museum and its Global Artistic Programs; as Editor at Artifex Press (now Cahiers d’Art Institute); as Curator at Delaware Contemporary; as Guest Curator and Guest Lecturer at Art Fair Philippines and universities in different cities in the Philippines. Also an artist, her creative practice has included work in film, theater, and the visual arts.