Our Faculty:
Trinie Dalton,
Writer, Curator
Trinie Dalton is an author, editor, and curator. Her books alternate between art projects and fiction, and sometimes combine the two. For example, Dear New Girl or Whatever Your Name Is (McSweeney’s), co-edited with Lisa Wagner and Eli Horowitz, is an art book for which she transformed her archive of confiscated high school notes into a collaboration between fifty artists. Mythtym (Picturebox) is an art/fiction anthology based on mythological monsters and horror. Her most recent fiction release is Baby Geisha (Two Dollar Radio). Her exhibition and curatorial projects often entail handmade publications and participatory elements. Dalton has written critically about art, books, and music, and frequently contributes to artists’ book projects. She writes for numerous magazines and websites such as Bookforum, Artforum.com, The Believer, Bomb, Modern Painters, The Paris Review Daily, and Paper. She writes critical essays for artists’ monographs, and has taught fiction workshops, bookmaking, and critical writing at various universities.
- Education:
- Bennington Writing Seminars, M.F.A (Creative Writing/Fiction)
- University of Southern California, B.A. (English: Creative Writing/Poetry)
- Teaching experience includes:
- Fall 2012 / Columbia University, MFA Creative Writing Program in Fiction
- Summer 2012 / Bard College, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts
- Vermont College of Fine Arts, Low-Residency MFA Writing in Fiction
- University of Southern California, Dornsife School of Liberal Arts, English Department
- Art Center College of Design, MFA Fine Arts
- NYU, Steinhardt Department of Art and Art Professions
- Pratt Institute, Writing for Performance, Publication, and Media Department
- Other publications:
Art Anthologies:
- MYTHTYM (Picturebox/D.A.P., 2008)
- Dear New Girl Or Whatever Your Name Is (McSweeney’s, 2005, co-edited with Lisa Wagner and Eli Horowitz
A Few Recent Clips:
- http://hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/detail/exhibition_id/149
- http://www.believermag.com/issues/200608/?read=article_dalton
- http://www.x-traonline.org/past_articles.php?articleID=408
- http://www.northdrivepress.com/ndp5.html
- http://bookforum.com/review/7982
- http://bookforum.com/inprint/017_04/6690
- http://bookforum.com/inprint/016_04/4705
- http://bookforum.com/review/4551
- http://bookforum.com/review/4865
- http://artforum.com/archive/id=29612
- http://artforum.com/words/id=29535
- http://artforum.com/archive/id=29258
Art Essay Publication Includes:
- Korean Eye Exhibition (Seoul, Korea/ Skira, 2010)
- Xylor Jane (CANADA Gallery, New York, 2010)
- New York Minute (MACRO, Rome/ JRP Ringier, 2010)
- Sundown Salon Unfolding Archive (Evil Twin Publications, 2009)
- Vitamin 3D: Artist Entries (Phaidon, 2009)
- Whitney Biennial 2008: Artist Entries (New York, 2008)
- Haavard Homstvedt (Gallerie Riis, Oslo, 2007)
- Francesca Gabbiani (Monica de Cardenas, Milan, 2006)
- Surrender! Matt Greene (Deitch Projects, New York, 2006)
- Website:
- Exhibitions:
- “The Joy of Looking: Contemporary Video Art from LA & NY,” Curated by Dalton for Cinemarfa (May 2012, Marfa)
- “Sync Speaks,” Group exhibition and workshop at Synchronicity Space (July 2011, Los Angeles)
- “Homunculi,” Curated by Dalton for CANADA Gallery (July 2011, New York)
- “History of Photocopy + Copy Art,” Group exhibition and workshop for Las Cienegas Projects (January 2010, Los Angeles)
- “Bruno Munari + Xerography,” Group exhibition and workshop for PIG Sunday School Series, Curated by Gelatin for Deitch Projects (August 2009, New York)
