About the Curator

Jo Anna Isaak  received her doctorate from the University of Toronto, Canada in 1982. She now makes her home in New York City.  She is a writer, curator and a professor of art history at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.

She is the author of Feminism and Contemporary Art: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Laughter (Routledge 1996); Nancy Spero with Jon Bird and Sylvere Lotringer (Phaidon 1996); The Ruin of Representation in Modernist Art and Texts (1986); Kiki Smith (Whitechapel Galley 1995) as well as numerous essays on contemporary art and cultural theory.

Selected Exhibitions:
The Revolutionary Power of Women's Laughter (1983)
Works on Paper (1986)
Mothers of Invention (1989)
Jeanne Silverthorne: Sculptural Works (1990)
Mapping the Imaginary (1992)
Susan Unterberg: Sons and Mothers (1994)
Disorderly Conduct (1994) with Nina Felshin and Wendy Olsoff

Links:
Public Space
Curriculum Vitae of Jo Anna Isaak
Amazon.com (to find the titles of books written by Jo Anna that are available for order online, simply type in "Jo Anna Isaak" as an author search from the main screen at Amazon)
n. paradoxa
Virtue and Vulgarity: a feminist conference on art, science and the body

Introductory Essay by Jo Anna Isaak / Pictures from the Exhibition / List of Works
Excerpts of Essays included in the Catalog / History of the Exhibition / How to order
a print copy of the catalog / About the Curator / Website Credits / Related Links