BIOGRAPHY : ROBERT STORR

* Current position: Curator of contemporary art in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, since September, 1990.

* Born: 1950.

* Education: B.A. 1972, Swarthmore College; Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, summer, 1978; M.A. 1978, School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

* Art Experience: An abstract painter for more than 20 years.

* Teaching: Assistant professor, Department of Painting and Drawing, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, 1989-90; Instructor (1985-88) and associate dean (1987-88) at New York Studio School of Painting and Sculpture; other teaching in 1980s (partial list): State University of New York at Purchase; Rhode Island School of Design, Providence; Parsons School of Design, New York; Cooper Union, N.Y.; Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J.; Philadelphia College of Art; Graduate Program, School of the Visual Arts, New York.

* Visiting artist/critic and lecturing: (1980-90, partial list): Royal College of London (England); Graduate Painting Program, Columbia University, New York; Bennington College, Vermont,; Hunter College, Graduate Painting Program; Yale University School of Art; San Francisco Art Institute; Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Fla.; University of Texas at Austin; St. Louis Museum of Art; Everson Museum, Syracuse, N.Y.; Toledo (Ohio) Museum of Art; Kansas City Art Institute; California Institute of the Arts, Valencia; New York Feminist Art Institute.

* Exhibitions curated: “Five Abstract Artists: Moira Dryer, Glenn Goldberg, John Obuck, Rebecca Purdum, Andrew Spence” (New York Studio School, 1987); “Susan Rothenberg: A Fifteen-Year Survey” (with Lars Nitve; Rooseum, Malmo, Sweden, 1990); “Devil on the Stairs: Reflections on the Eighties” (Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, 1991); “ Dis locations,” (site-specific installations by Chris Burden, Sohie Calle, David Hammons, Ilya Kabakov, Bruce Nauman, Adrian Piper and Louise Bourgeois, at the Museum of Modern Art, 1991).

* Monographs: “Chuck Close” (with Lisa Lyons; Rizzoli International Publications, 1987); “Philip Guston” (Abbeville Press, 1986); “Louise Bourgeois” (Timken Publishers, forthcoming).

* Other writing: “No Joy in Mudville” (an essay on the art critic Clement Greenberg) in “Modern Art and Popular Culture: Readings in High and Low” (The Museum of Modern Art and Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1990); exhibition catalogue essays (partial list of subjects): Elizabeth Murray, Ron Gorchov, Martin Puryear, Louise Bourgeois, Philip Guston, Peter Saul, Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Ryman, Dorothea Rockburne, Nancy Spero, Betty Goodwin; contributing editor, Art in America magazine (has published numerous articles, art reviews and art book reviews since 1982); columnist, Art/Press magazine (Paris), since 1985. Has also written for the New Art Examiner, Parkett magazine and Village Voice. Serves on the editorial board of Art Journal, published by the College Art Assn.