Vincent Katz,

poet, critic, translator, editor, and curator

Vincent Katz is a poet, critic, translator, editor, and curator.  His art criticism has been published in numerous books, catalogues, and journals.  He was the editor of Black Mountain College: Experiement In Art, published by MIT Press in 2002.  Katz curated an exhibition on Black Mountain College for the Reina Sofia museum in Madrid in 2002, and he curated “Street Dance: The New York Photographs of Rudy Burckhardt” for the Museum of the City of New York in 2008.  In 2000, he co-curated (with Lynn Gumpert) “Rudy Burckhardt and Friends: New York Artists of the 1950s and 60s” for the Grey Art Gallery at New York University, which paired Burckhardt’s portraits of artists with works by those artists.  Katz has published essays or articles on the work of Jennifer Bartlett, Francesco Clemente, Jim Dine, Robert Rauschenberg, Kiki Smith, Philip Taaffe, Cy Twombly, and others.  His criticism has been published in Apollo, Art in America, ARTnews, Art on Paper, art press, Parkett, World of Interiors, and Tate Etc. He is the author of The Complete Elegies Of Sextus Propertius (Princeton, 2004) and Alcuni Telefonini, a collaboration with painter Francesco Clemente published by Granary Books.

Education:

• BA and MA, Oxford University, England, Classics, 1985
• BA, University of Chicago, Music and Classics, 1982

Teaching experience includes:

• "The Poet as Critic" Seminar, School of Visual Arts, 2011
• Workshop “Poetry and the Visual Arts,” The Poetry Project, New York, 2008
• Seminar on Translation, Boston University, graduate students, 2008
• Workshop “Journey to Black Mountain,” Naropa University
• Summer Writing Program, Boulder, Colorado, July, 2005

Other publications:

Art Criticism published in

• Apollo
• Art in America
• ARTnews
• Art on Paper
• art press
• House and Garden
• Parkett
• World of Interiors
• Tate Etc.

Poetry Criticism published in

• Jacket
• Poetry Project website
• Hidden Agendas: Unreported Poetics

Poetry Published in the Following Periodicals:

• Aufgabe
• Bomb
• Bombay Gin
• The Portable Boog Reader 4
• Brooklyn Rail
• can we have our ball back
• The Canary
• Conjunctions
• Court Green
• The East Village
• EOAGH 3 (Queering Language)
• EOAGH 5
• Esopus
• Evergreen Review
• Jacket
• Letterbox
• LIT
• Live Mag
• Lungfull
• Milk
• Mipoesias
• Mississippi Review
• Per Contra
• Pressed Wafer
• Provincetown Arts
• Shampoo
• Shiny
• Shuffle Boil
• Skanky Possum

Awards and honors:

• Guest of the Director, American Academy in Berlin, Spring, 2006
• National Translation Award, 2005, from the American Literary Translators Association, for THE COMPLETE ELEGIES OF SEXTUS PROPERTIUS
• John Guare Writer’s Fund Rome Prize Fellowship for a one-year residency at the American Academy in Rome, selected by the Literature Committee for Awards of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, 2001-2002

Website:

Vincentkatz.com

Exhibitions:

• Tabboo! Paintings at Tricia Collins Grand Salon
• Hunt Slonem: Hunt's Place at disegno diverso
• Hunt Slonem: Exotica by Edizioni d'Arte Fratelli Pozzo
• Alex Katz: Invented Symbols by Hatje Cantz
• Martin Myers at Sandra Gering Gallery
• Tom Wesselman at Sidney Janis Gallery
• Rudy Burckhardt at IVAM Centre Julio González
• Life Is Paradise: The Portraits of Francesco Clemente by powerHouse Books
• Ray Parker: Works on Paper c. 1960 at John T. Washburn
• Yvonne Jacquette: Evening/Chicago and New York at DC Moore
• Alex Katz: Smile Again at Jablonka Galerie
• Robert Zandvliet: The Varick Series by Peter Blum Editions
• Stewart MacFarlane: Compulsion at Brisbane City Gallery
• Red Grooms: The Graphic Work by Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
• Francesco Clemente: Terra Fragile by Edition Bruno Bischofberger
• Cy Twombly Photographs by Schirmer Mosel
• Black Mountain College: Experiment In Art by MIT Press
• Rudy Burckhardt's Maine at Colby College Museum of Art
• Francesco Clemente at Museo Archeologico Nazionale
• Aerial Muse: The Art Of Yvonne Jaquette by Hudson Hills Press
• Janet Fish: Paintings by Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
• Nabil Nahas at J. Johnson Gallery
• Alex Katz: Flowers and Landscapes at PaceWildenstein
• Alex Katz: Portraits by Silvana Editoriale
• Beat Streuli: New York City by Hatje Cantz
• Philip Taaffe at Thomas Amman Fine Art AG Zurich
• Francesco Clemente: New Works at the Irish Museum of Modern Art and Reykjavik Art Museum
• Jim Dine: New Paintings, Photographs, and a Sculpture at PaceWildenstein
• Francesco Clemente: Tandoori Satori and Commonplace at the Rose Art Museum
• Francesco Clemente: Saline Aquarelle at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
• Marina Karella by Fereniki Publications
• Kiki Smith: Homespun Tales by Fondazione Querini Stampalia
• Jim Dine, some drawings at the Allen Memorial Art Museum
• Juan Gomez at CUE Art Foundation
• Kiki Smith: The Venice Story at Libellum (New York) and Charta (Milan)
• Doug and Mike Starn: alleverythingthatisyou at Baldwin Gallery
• Singular Multiples: The Peter Blum Edition Archive 1980-1994 at the Museum of Fine Art, Houston
• Suterranean Monuments: Burckhardt, Johnson, Hujar at Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center
• Pleasure Palaces: The Art And Homes of Hunt Slonem by powerHouse Books
• Picturing New York: The Art of Yvonne Jacquette and Rudy Burckhardt at the Museum of the City of New York
• Sarah McCoubrey: Looking For The Normal at The Luther W. Brady Art Gallery
• Francesco Clemente, Ten Portraits One Self Portrait at Gian Enzo Sperone
• Ghada Amer and Reza Farkhondeh: Roses Off Limits by Pace Prints
• Larry Rivers at Tibor de Nagy Gallery