Terrie
Sultan, Director of Blaffer Gallery at UH
 Terrie
Sultan has served as the Director of the Blaffer Gallery, the Art
Museum of the University of Houston since June 2000. As Director,
Ms. Sultan is responsible for the artistic and administrative leadership
of the Blaffer, setting the goals and objectives for the exhibition,
publication, and program schedule. In addition she has organized
a number of exhibitions featuring artists of national and international
scope including
Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration an exhibition organized
to travel to ten museums nation-wide (including the Metropolitan
Museum in New York) with an accompanying book published by Princeton
University Press. She is currently preparing a twenty-year survey
of work by Jessica Stockholder scheduled for September 2004.
Prior to joining the Blaffer Gallery, Ms. Sultan
was curator of contemporary art at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in
Washington, DC, a position she held for 12 years. During that time,
Ms. Sultan organized some 40 exhibitions and publications, and introduced
the work of many emerging artists, often providing them their first
museum exposure and interpretive writing.
Ms. Sultan has traveled extensively throughout
the United States and abroad and lectured on issues related to contemporary
visual art and culture. An accomplished author, her most recent
publications include Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration
published by Princeton University Press; Seeing and Believing: The
Art of Nancy Burson, published by Twin Palms Press, Santa Fe; Donald
Lipski: A Brief History of Twine published by the Madison Art Center
and distributed by DAP/Distributed Art Publishers, New York; and
Kerry James Marshall published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York;
She was a member of the founding board of Etant donné the
French-American Endowment for Contemporary Art, and co-commissioner
for the international exhibition at the Taijon South Korea International
World exhibition. She is a member of the International Council of
Museums, the International Association of Art Critics, Association
of College and University Museums and Galleries, and the College
Art Association (member Lifetime Achievement for Art Writing Award
Committee).
Sultan received her BFA in Painting from the College
of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University, and her MA
in Museum Studies from the Center for Museum Studies at John F.
Kennedy University, San Francisco.
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