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  • Constance Lewallen

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    Constance Lewallen was born and raised in New York City. She received her BA from Mount Holyoke College and her MA from California State University, San Diego. Lewallen was Matrix curator at the University Art Museum, Berkeley (now the University of California Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive) from 1980 to 88, Senior Curator there from 1998 to 2007, and currently the BAM's Adjunct Curator. As Senior Curator, she curated many major exhibitions, among them: Joe Brainard, A Retrospective (2001), Dream of the Audience: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1951-1982) (2001), Everything Matters: Paul Kos, a Retrospective (2003), Ant Farm (1968-1978) (2004), and A Rose Has No Teeth: Bruce Nauman in the 1960s (2007). All of these exhibitions toured nationally and internationally and were accompanied by catalogues. Her exhibition, Allen Ruppersberg: You and Me or the Art of Give and Take was presented at the Santa Monica Museum of Art in fall 2009. She is currently West Coast Field Editor for caa.reviews (College Art Association's online review site).

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