Kendall DeBoer — CV

Education

Ph.D., University of Rochester, Visual and Cultural Studies, Department of Art and Art History, Rochester, NY

B.A., The University of Texas, Austin, TX, May 2016, summa cum laude
Majors: Art History, English, and French

Museums & Archives

Curatorial Assistant in the Department of Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2022 — present

Lead curator, SMFA at Tufts: Archive and Autobiography, November 19, 2022–April 16, 2023

John Wilmerding Intern in American Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2020 — 2021

CCL/Mellon Foundation Seminar in Curatorial Practice, New York, NY, 2019

Windgate Fellow in Contemporary Craft, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, 2018

Project Assistant, William Blake Archive, Rochester, NY, 2018 — 2022

Teen Programs, The Contemporary Austin, Austin, TX, 2017

Exhibitions Intern, Harry Ransom Center, Austin, TX, 2015 — 2016

Curatorial Intern in Latin American Art, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX, 2014 — 2015

Teaching

University of Rochester, 2017 -- 2020

Art History Instructor, Fringes: Surrealists, Outsiders, and Craft in 20th Century Art

Teaching Assistant, Writing on Art (Dr. Janet Berlo), American Experiments: Film and Art of the 1930s (Dr. James Rosenow), The Black Body (Dr. Kate Mariner), Intro to Media Studies (Dr. Rachel Haidu), Intro to Art and Visual Culture (Dr. Paul Duro)

University of Texas at Austin, 2013 — 2016

Writing Tutor, Undergraduate Writing Center

Writing Fellow, Intro to Liberal Arts Honors

Presentations & TALKS

“Jewel-Encrusted Rats in Ecclesiastical Garb: Art and Treasures for You, Honey,“ Prophetic Imagination in Contemporary Art, 111th College Art Association Annual Conference, New York, NY.

“Contemporary Makers and the Feed Sack Revival,” Thrift Style, Central Library of Rochester & Monroe County, Rochester, NY, June 2021.

“Translucent Insect, Glistening Webs: Florine Stettheimer’s Canopies, Veils, and Cocoons,” The Frick Collection Symposium on the History of Art, New York, NY, April 2021.

“Digital Iridescence: The Radiant Sparkle of Tender, Shimmering Jell-O, Remixed,” 109th CAA Annual Conference, February 2021.

“two million stitches i simply couldn’t leave off: abstraction, accretion, and affect in madge gill’s textiles,” Close at Hand: Touch and Tactility in Art, Saint Louis, MO, February 2020.

“‘Botticellophane’: High Artifice and the Sanctity of Surface in Four Saints in Three Acts,” 108th CAA Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, February 2020.

“Alchemy, Metamorphosis, and Sign Transformation: Iconoclash in Leonora Carrington’s Works on Wood, Wool, Silk, and Vellum,” SURREALISMS: Inaugural Conference of the International Society for the Study of Surrealism, Lewisburg, PA, November 2018.

Publications

“Kathy Butterly Interviewed,” BOMB Magazine, February 27, 2023.

“Florine and the Three Worlds,” Dilettante Army, Fall 2020.

“Judith Schaechter at Memorial Art Gallery,” Cornelia Magazine, Spring 2020.

“Blake’s Afterlife: Howard Finster, the Backwoods Blake,” Hell’s Printing Press, November 11, 2019.

“‘Stay the Course’: An Interview with Artist Joyce J. Scott,” Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, January 16, 2019.

“Curatorial Fabulations: Difference, Subversion, and Exhibition-as-Form in ‘Outliers and American Vanguard Art,” InVisible Culture, August, 21, 2018.