College of Arts and Architecture
School of Visual Arts
CRITICAL
STUDIES SIMONE OSTHOFF
Assistant Professor of Art
Website: http://www.personal.psu.edu/sxo11/
Simone Osthoff is a Brazilian-born artist and writer based in the US since 1988. She holds a B.A. degree in History from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica of Rio de Janeiro, and graduate degrees from the University of Maryland (M.F.A. 1991) and from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (M.A. 1996) where she taught in the department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism between 1997 and 2001. She also taught both art history and studio at DePaul University (1996-99), at the Harrington Institute of Interior Design (1998-2001), and at the University of Maryland in both College Park and at the Baltimore Campi (1992-93).
Her prints, drawings, and collaborative installations have been exhibited in many solo and group shows nationally and internationally including print biennials in China and Cuba. In the US she has exhibited in among others the Chicago Cultural Center and the Aldo Castillo Gallery, Chicago (which represented her work between 1996-2001). In Brazil her work has been showcased in among others the Museum of Contemporary Art of Paraná, Curitiba, andthe Museum of Contemporary Art of São Paulo. Among museum collections where her work is included are the Museu da Gravura Cidade de Curitiba and the Museu Nacional de Bellas Artes, Rio de Janeiro, both in Brazil, besides multiple private and corporate collections in England, Brazil, and the United States.
Osthoff’s research and publications focus on Modern and Contemporary Latin American Visual Culture and New Media Art and have appeared in among other journals the New Art Examiner, Leonardo, and World Art. She is a member of the Leonardo Review panel since 2000. Osthoff writes in English and Portuguese and has been translated into French, Spanish, Catalan, and Slovene. Besides multiple articles, interviews, and reviews, she has contributed with chapters to the following books: Ecosee: Image, Rhetoric, and Nature, edited by Sid Dobrin and Sean Morey (Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, 2006); @rt Outsiders, edited by Annick Bureaud (Paris: Anomos/Hyx, 2005); At a Distance: Precursors to Art and Activism on the Internet, edited by A. Chandler and N. Neumark (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2005); Women, Art, and Technology, edited by J. Malloy (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003); Corpus Delecti: Performance Art of the Americas, edited by Coco Fusco (London: Routledge, 1999); and Diaspora and Visual Culture, edited by N. Mirzoeff (London: Routledge, 2000).
Osthoff has lectured widely, organized panels, and participated in symposia in the US, Brazil, Mexico, and Japan. Among her grants and awards is a Fulbright Fellowship in 2003. She currently is a Ph.D. candidate in the Media and Communications Program at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland.
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