Claudia Gould

Claudia Gould was born and raised near New Haven, Connecticut. She had a Jewish father and a Roman Catholic mother.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/24/arts/jewish-museum-chooses-claudia-gould-as-director.html|title=Jewish Museum Chooses Claudia Gould as Director|last=Taylor|first=Kate|work=The New York Times |date=August 24, 2011|page=C3|access-date=January 10, 2020}} She has a bachelor of arts degree in art history from Boston College and a master's degree from New York University.{{Cite web|url=https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/gould-named-new-director-institute-contemporary-art-university-pennsylvania|title=Gould Named New Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania|website=Penn Today|date=28 May 1999 |language=en|access-date=2020-03-23}}

As part of her education she was an intern at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The New Museum[http://www.nyfa.org/level4.asp?id=122&fid=1&sid=51&tid=168 New York Foundation for the Arts Interview with Claudia Gould] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130106173728/http://www.nyfa.org/level4.asp?id=122&fid=1&sid=51&tid=168 |date=2013-01-06 }}. and Artists Space, NYC. From 1999 to 2011, Gould served as Executive Director of Artists Space in New York City.{{Cite web|title=People {{!}} Claudia Gould {{!}} The Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University|url=http://heymancenter.org/people/claudia-gould/|access-date=2020-07-23|website=heymancenter.org}}

Gould has worked as both a staff member and independent curator for various art institutions and museums. Her first curatorial position was at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center in Buffalo, New York in 1983.[http://www.hallwalls.org/pubs/17.html Hallwalls Exhibition (1984)] That same year, Gould co-founded Tellus Audio Cassette Magazine, devoted to global, cutting-edge music and sound art, with artist Joseph Nechvatal and Carol Parkinson, director of Harvestworks.[http://www.harvestworks.org/tellus-media Harvestworks Team Lab]Alan W. Moore, Artists' Collectives: Focus on New York, 1975-2000 in Collectivism After Modernism: The Art of Social Imagination after 1945, Blake Stimson & Gregory Sholette, (eds) University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2007, pp. 193-221Kenneth Goldsmith, Duchamp Is My Lawyer: The Polemics, Pragmatics, and Poetics of UbuWeb, Columbia University Press, New York, p. 243

Gould was a curator and program coordinator for PS 1 (now MoMA PS1), in charge of their National and International Studio Program from 1984 to 1986.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/12/06/arts/art-ps-i-shows-work-of-35-younger-painters.html|title=P.S. 1 Shows Work of 35 Younger Painters by Michael Brenson|work=New York Times|date=December 6, 1985|access-date=January 10, 2020}} She was the American Curatorial Coordinator for Documenta 8 in 1987 and then served as curator of exhibitions at the Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University from 1988 through 1992. During her tenure at Wexner, exhibitions ranged from a one-person exhibition on Kiki Smith to In Black and White: Dress from the 1920s to Today, in an installation designed by French interior designer Andrée Putman.
[https://www.chicagotribune.com/1992/05/06/calling-all-karan-fans-donna-does-the-discount-thing-in-michigan-city/ Calling All Karan Fans: Donna Does The Discount Thing In Michigan City By Genevieve Buck, May 06, 1992, Chicago Tribune].

Some of Gould's independent curatorial projects include: the (1992) site-specific installation Kawamata Project on Roosevelt Island;[http://www.aaa.org.hk/Collection/Details/9149 Kawamata Project on Roosevelt Island, Asiart, 1993]. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303231233/http://www.aaa.org.hk/Collection/Details/9149 |date=2016-03-03 }} a collaborative building project with artist Vito Acconci and architect Steven Holl at New York City's Storefront for Art and Architecture (1993)[http://www.storefrontnews.org/programming/exhibitions?c=&p=&e=308 Vito Acconci and Steven Holl: A Collaborative Building Project, November 13, 1993 – December 30, 1993]. and The Music Box Project,[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1988&dat=19941204&id=v0AoAAAAIBAJ&sjid=YwUGAAAAIBAJ&pg=4689,3066213 Works embrace sound of music by Syd Kronish, The Argus Pres, December 4, 1994]. a commission of 17 music boxes by contemporary artists in collaboration with the 100-year-old Swiss music box company Reuge (1994).[http://www.miaminewtimes.com/1996-01-25/news/reverb/ Reverb by John Floyd, Miami NewTimes News, 1996].

From 1994 to 1999, Gould served as Executive Director of Artists Space,{{Cite web|url=http://heymancenter.org/people/claudia-gould/|title=People {{!}} Claudia Gould {{!}} The Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University|website=heymancenter.org|access-date=2020-03-23}} the landmark New York City alternative exhibition space and artist service organization dedicated to emerging artists working in all mediums. She reinstated Artists Space's architecture and design program, which began in 1979 with Bernard Tschumi,[http://www.tschumi.com/exhibitions/ Bernard Tschumi Architects]. by giving architects Greg Lynn, UN Studio/Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos, Galia Solomonoff, Toshiko Mori and designer J. Abbott Miller their first one-person exhibitions. Other highlights of her time at Artists Space include an exhibition and publication on the History of Squat Theatre and a comprehensive 25th anniversary book in tandem with an exhibition with Laurie Anderson.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/09/27/arts/art-tracing-a-long-voyage-into-the-mainstream.html|title=Tracing a Long Voyage Into the Mainstream by Kay Larson|work=The New York Times|date=September 27, 1998|access-date=January 10, 2020}}.

In 1999 Gould was appointed Director of Philadelphia's Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania[https://web.archive.org/web/20150402120729/http://articles.philly.com/1999-05-28/living/25513448_1_ica-penn-officials-contemporary-art New Yorker Selected As New Head Of Ica, philly.com] where she served until 2011. During Claudia's tenure as Director, the ICA initiated multiple programs to integrate themselves within the academic and civic community of the University, such as Writing Through Art and Culture with the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing and Kelly Writers House.[http://writing.upenn.edu/ica/ Writing Through Art and Literature]

As the ICA's Director, Gould organized the first museum surveys of artists Lisa Yuskavage, Charles LeDray and Polly Apfelbaum, an exhibition by graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister and brought a major retrospective to the institution on the work of fashion designer Rudi Gernreich, in an installation by architects Coop Himmelb(l)au. Exhibitions presented by the team at the ICA under Gould's leadership demonstrated a continuous integration of design, fashion and popular culture in a contemporary art setting. Highlights include a 36-institution, citywide initiative called “The Big Nothing”; a retrospective of the work of Barry Le Va; a survey of the work of Karen Kilimnik, Ensemble, a commissioned exhibition curated by Christian Marclay; Rodney Graham: A Little Thought; Intricacy, curated by architect and theorist Greg Lynn; Dirt on Delight: Impulses that Form Clay, significant work in clay by 22 artists spanning four generations; Pathways to Unknown Worlds: Sun Ra, El Saturn and Chicago's Afro-Futurist Underground, 1954-1968, an exhibition on Jazz pioneer, bandleader, mystic, philosopher, and Afro-Futurist, Sun Ra and his ensemble; the first U.S. solo museum exhibition for Mexican artist Damián Ortega; the first U.S. solo museum exhibition for Trisha Donnelly; and a survey focusing on Maira Kalman’s work as illustrator an co-founder of M&Co.[http://www.icaphila.org/exhibitions/past/ Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Past Exhibitions]

The New York Times wrote of the ICA during Claudia Gould’s tenure, “On a surprisingly regular basis, the Institute of Contemporary Art mounts exhibitions that make the contemporary art adventures of many larger museums look blinkered, timid and hidebound.”{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/20/arts/design/20dirt.html|title=Crucible of Creativity, Stoking Earth Into Art by Roberta Smith|work=The New York Times|date=March 19, 2009|access-date=January 10, 2020}} At ICA, she tripled the museum's exhibition schedule, the staff, and the budget,{{Cite web|url=http://icaphila.org/miranda/2548/claudia|title=Claudia - ICA Philadelphia|website=icaphila.org|date=17 October 2013 |language=en-US|access-date=2018-11-15}} from $1 million to $3.1 million.

Gould joined the staff of The Jewish Museum in November{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/13/arts/design/claudia-gould-on-her-first-year-as-director-of-jewish-museum.html|title=A Museum Broadens Its Identity|work=The New York Times |date=12 February 2013 |access-date=2018-11-16|language=en |last1=Kozinn |first1=Allan }} 2011 and became until mid-2023 the Helen Goldsmith Menschel Director in early 2012,{{Cite web|url=https://thejewishmuseum.org/about/staff-profile/claudia-gould|title=The Jewish Museum|website=thejewishmuseum.org|access-date=2018-11-16}} succeeding Joan Rosenbaum.{{Cite web|url=https://www.artforum.com/news/claudia-gould-named-director-of-the-jewish-museum-28816|title=Claudia Gould Named Director of the Jewish Museum|website=www.artforum.com|date=24 August 2011 |language=en-US|access-date=2020-03-23}}

• 1992: Kiki Smith, Ohio State Univ Wexner Center, {{ISBN|9781881390015}}
• 1996: Kawamata: Project on Roosevelt Island, Princeton Architectural Press, {{ISBN|9780963637208}}
• 1998: 5000 Artists Return To Artists Space: 25 Years, Artists Space, {{ISBN|9780966362602}}
• 2002: 1998-2001: A Project by Richard Tuttle, University of Pennsylvania, Institute of Contemporary Art, {{ISBN|9780884540984}}
• 2003: Polly Apfelbaum, University of Pennsylvania, Institute of Contemporary Art, {{ISBN|9780884541035}}
• 2008: Trisha Donnelly, University of Pennsylvania, Institute of Contemporary Art, {{ISBN|9780884541141}}
• 2008: The Puppet Show, University of Pennsylvania, Institute of Contemporary Art, {{ISBN|9780884541134}}
• 2009: Jesus in America: And Other Stories from the Field, Utah State University Press, {{ISBN|9780874217605}}
• 2009: Dirt on Delight: Impulses That Form Clay, University of Pennsylvania, Institute of Contemporary Art, {{ISBN|9780884541172}}
• 2010: Maira Kalman: Various Illuminations (of a Crazy World), Prestel Publishing, {{ISBN|9783791350356}}
• 2011: Anne Tyng: Inhabiting Geometry, University of Pennsylvania, {{ISBN|9780884541219}}
• 2013: Stefan Sagmeister: The Happy Film: A Pitchbook, University of Pennsylvania, Institute of Contemporary Art, {{ISBN|9780884541257}}

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• [http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/ The Jewish Museum New York]
• [http://www.icaphila.org The Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania]

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