Marcus Verhagen
Curriculum Vitae
Born in 1963, Antwerp, Belgium.
Education
1994
PhD in Art History,
University of California, Berkeley
1988
MA in Art History,
University of California, Berkeley
1985
BA in Art History,
Peterhouse, Cambridge University
Jobs held
2003-
Part-time Tutor,
City University, London
1998-
Freelance writer and curator
1997-98
Assistant Professor,
Reed College, Portland, Oregon
1996-97
Visiting Lecturer,
University of Manchester
1994
Visiting Lecturer,
University of California, Berkeley
1989
Visiting Lecturer, Mills College, Oakland, California
1987-90
Teaching Assistant to Professors Peter Selz, T.J.Clark, Anne Wagner, Svetlana Alpers, University of California, Berkeley
1986-87
Research Assistant,
De Young Museum, San Francisco
Academic publications
"Bohemia in Doubt," in Jeannene Przyblyski and Vanessa Schwartz eds., The Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture Reader, Routledge, New York and London, 2003
"Allegory and its Discontents; Notes on the Recent Work of Sonia Boyce," Recent Sonia Boyce; La, La, La, Reed College Gallery catalogue, 2001, pp. 6-17
"An Art of the Commonplace," Annotations, Feb. 1998, pp. 10-15
"Whipstrokes," Representations, Spring 1997, pp. 115-140
"The Poster in Fin-de-Siècle Paris; 'That Mobile and Degenerate Art," in Leo Charney and Vanessa Schwartz eds., Cinema and the Invention of Modern Life, University of California Press, Berkeley and London, 1995, pp. 103-129
Criticism
"90s Nostalgia", Art Monthly, May 2003, p. 43
"Hans Op de Beeck", Art Review, May 2003, p. 92
"Veil", Art Monthly, April 2003, pp. 29-30
"Bloomberg New Contemporaries," Contemporary, Jan. 2003, pp. 114-115
"Writ Large," Contemporary, Dec. 2002, pp. 54-57
"The Odd Couple," Art Review, Dec. 2002, pp. 121-123
"Sacred, and a Bit Profane," Art Review, Oct. 2002, pp. 100-101
"Eastern Promise," Art Review, April 2002, pp. 83-84
Shows
Curator
London Calling, con-temporary Gallery, Berlin, May-June 2003
Curator
Odalisque, Mafuji Gallery, London, Jan.-Feb. 2002
Co-curator
Recent Sonia Boyce; La, La, La, Cooley Gallery, Reed College, Portland, Oregon, April-June 2001
Co-curator
Licked, Gasworks Gallery, London, April-May 2000
Curator
State of Grace; Carlos Lopez-Barilla, Warehouse Gallery, North London University, Jan.-Feb. 2000