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Thomas F Folland
editThomas Frederick Folland is a Los Angeles art historian specializing in modern and contemporary art, and a former curator and art critic from Toronto, Canada. He is a currently professor of art history in the Arts, Media, and Performance department at Los Angeles Mission College.
Academic and Gallery Career
editFolland holds a PhD in art history from the University of California, Los Angeles. After receiving a BFA in art from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1984, he was awarded a fellowship in the Whitney Museum of American Art's prestigious Independent Study Program (Whitney ISP) in 1985.[1] In 1988 he was appointed Assistant Curator at The Power Plant, a center for contemporary art at Toronto's Harbourfront District. Along with The Power Plant, Folland has curated exhibitions for Mercer Union Gallery and YYZ Artists' Outlet, [2] Toronto, the Sao Paulo Biennial, and Thread Waxing Space, New York (co-curated with Joseph Wolin.)[3] Folland is a contributing writer at Smart History and the author of numerous articles and essays on modern and contemporary art.[4]
Selected Publications
editBook review: Suzanne Preston Blier, Picasso’s Demoiselles: The Untold Story of a Modern Masterpiece, H-France Review, Vol. 21 (June, 2021) No. 93.[5]
“Readymade Primitivism: Marcel Duchamp, Dada, and African Art,” Art History (UK Association of Art Historians) Vol 43, No 4, September 2021.[6]
“Robert Rauschenberg’s Red Show: Theater, Painting, and Queerness in 1950s Modernism,” Modernism/modernity, Johns Hopkins University Press, Vol 23, No. 1 January 2017.[7]
“Robert Rauschenberg’s Queer Modernism: The Early Combines and Decoration,” Art Bulletin Vol 92, No. 4 December, 2010.[8]
Fellowships and Awards
editPre-Doctoral Fellowship, 2008-09, Smithsonian Institution Washington, D.C. Archives of American Art.
Helena Rubenstein Foundation Scholar, Critical and Curatorial Studies, Whitney Museum of American Art, Independent Study Program, 1985-86.
References
edit- ^ "Independent Study Program". whitney.org. Retrieved 2024-09-28.
- ^ "YYZ Artists Outlet – An artist-led exhibition space in Toronto". Retrieved 2024-09-28.
- ^ Institution, Smithsonian. "Steve Reinke, Curated by Tom Folland and Josephine Wolin (Mar. 10-12, 2000)". Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2024-09-28.
- ^ "Thomas F R E D E R I C K FOLLAND | Los Angeles Mission College - Academia.edu". lamission.academia.edu. Retrieved 2024-09-28.
- ^ "Main Page H-France Review – H-France". Retrieved 2024-09-28.
- ^ Folland, Thomas (September 2020). ""Readymade Primitivism: Marcel Duchamp, Dada, and African Art"". Art History (UK Association of Art History). 43 (4): 670–883 – via Wiley Online Library.
- ^ Folland, Thomas (2017). "Robert Rauschenberg's "Red Show": Theater, Painting, and Queerness in 1950s Modernism". Modernism/modernity. 24 (1): 87–115. ISSN 1080-6601.
- ^ Folland, Tom (2010). "Robert Rauschenberg's Queer Modernism: The Early Combines and Decoration". The Art Bulletin. 92 (4): 348–365. ISSN 0004-3079.