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Dr. Marek Bartelik

Graduate Critic-in-Residence – Mount Royal School of Art (MFA)

Marek Bartelik is an art historian, art critic, and poet specializing in 20th century art and theory of art, with a Masters of Science degree in Civil Engineering from Columbia University and a Ph.D. in Art History from CUNY Graduate Center. He has taught art theory at MIT and Yale. He is a President of AICA-USA (International Association of Art Critics) and Vice-President of AICA International. Bartelik has been writing reviews for Artforum for nearly 20 years.

 

Education

1992 - 2001
  • The City University of New York, Graduate Center, Master of Philosophy and Ph.D. in Art Histrory.
1985 - 87
  • Columbia University, New York, Master of Science in Civil Engineering.
1982 - 83
  • École des Beaux Arts, Paris, France, Atelier of Mosaics (non-matriculate).

Teaching

1996 - present
  • The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, NY.
Fall 2004
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, History, Theory, and Criticism Department, Cambridge, MA.
Fall 2003
  • Yale University, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT.
Fall 2001
  • Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY.
Spring 2001
  • The City College of New York, NY, graduate division.
1998 - 99
  • College of Station Island, New York, NY, Graduate Teaching Fellow.
Spring 1996
  • Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT
1995
  • Hunter College, New York, NY, Teaching Instructor.

Publications In Progress

  • Early Polish Modern Art: Unity in Multiplicity, forthcoming book by Manchester University Press, Manchester, England, scheduled for Fall 2005.
  • "The Banner Without a Slogan: The Early Stages of Conceptual Art in the Soviet Union," introduction to Moscow Conceptualism, collection of essays published by the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and Duke University Museum of Art, forthcoming in 2005.
  • "A Far-striding Silence: Women Artists in the Young Yiddish group in Lodz, 1919 – 1921," essay for an anthology, Coding Representation: Jewish Dimension in Modern Art, Matthew Baigell, Milly Heyd, and Rose-Carol Washton Long (eds.), forthcoming from Wayne State University Press.

Books

  • To Invent a Garden: The Life and Art of Adja Yunkers (New York: Hudson Hills Press, 2000).
  • Een onmoeeting/Vstrecha/A Meeting between Jan Fabre and Ilya Kabokov (Diepenheim, Belgium: Kunstvereniging, 1999), in Flemish and English.
  • Stasys Eidrigevicium (Tokyo: ggg Books, 1997), in English and Japanese.
  • The Sculpture of Ursula von Rydingsvard (New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1996), co-authoured with Dore Ashton and Matti Megged.

Selected Essays

  • "Another Bridge to Cross: 'Bunt' in the context of multiculturalism of Polish art after World War I," essay in exhibition catalogue, National Museum in Poznan, Poland, November 2003.
  • Introductory essay for the exhibition "Refashioning the figure: The sketchbooks of Archipenko c. 1920," The Henry Moore Foundation, Leeds, England, October 2003.
  • Essays on individual works by Pierre Bonnard, Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Fernand Léger, Franz Marc, Amadeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso, and Henri Rousseau, written for the catalogue of "Masterpieces and Master Collections: Impressionist and Modern Painting from the Guggenheim and the Hermitage," Guggenheim-Hermitage Museum, Las Vegas, September 2001 – March 2002.
  • "Re-figuring Beauty: Notes on Orlan," Introduction to a book on the French artist Orlan (book co-authored with Dominique Baqué and Orlan), Editions Al Dante, May 2001 (in French and English).
  • "Al Hansen," biographical entry for The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives, vol. 4 (Notable Americans Who Died Between 1994 – 1996) published by Charles Scribner's Sons, 2001.
  • A Rebour: Painting in the 1940s – 60s, exh. Cat., curated by Dore Ashton (Reina Sofia, Madrid, and Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas, Spain, 1999), 64 essays on individual artists including Pierre Alechinsky, Karel Apel, Francis Bacon, Jacopo Borges, Tadeusz Kantor, Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock, Marc Rothko, Pierre Soulage, and Wols.
  • "Sequences: AS YOU CAN SEE," ex. Cat., New Brunswick, NJ: The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, 1997.
  • "Behind the Silent Curtain: Notes on the Holocaust and Contemporary Polish Art," in Burnt Whole: Contemporary Artists Reflect of the Holocaust, ex. cat., Washington DC: Washington Project for the Arts, 1994.

Catalogues of Individual Artists

  • "Stasys Eidrigevicius: The Artist and His Model," M.C. Ciurlionis Museum, Kaunas, Lithuania, December 2004 – January 2005.
  • "Haesook Kim, 'Weltanschauung'," The Tenri Cultural Institute, New York, November – December 2004.
  • "Lydia Venieri: Hibernbation," Luxe Gallery, New York, May 2004.
  • "Inner Circles: The New Works of Gabriela Morawetz," COFA, New York, January – February 2004.
  • "Rysunki I inne przedmioty: Krystiana Robb-Narbutt," National Gallery of Art, "Zacheta," Warsaw, Poland, September 2003.
  • "Stan Brodsky. Synthesis: Redefining the Painting," June Kelly Gallery, September 2003.
  • "Grimanesa Amoros: New Works," ARTCO Galeria de Arte, Lima, Peru, May 2003.
  • "James Jorio," Museu de Agua, Lisbon, Portugal, March 2003.
  • "Stasys, Ku-ku-ri-ku," Festiwal Artystyczny I Filmowy, Kazimierz Dolny, summer 2001.
  • "Immoral Reflection: New Photographs by Gary Beeber," New York: General Miracles, 2000.
  • Ilya Kabakov and Cai Guo-Qiang in "The Last Judgement," Warsaw: various galleries, December 1999 (exhibition unrealized).
  • "Seven Rand: Surface Memory," Bialystok, Poland: Galeria Arsenal, 1998.
  • "Prints 2000," Warsaw: National Gallery of Art 'Zacheta', 1998.
  • "A Meeting; The Fly and the Scarab-Beetle in a Basement (Ilya Kabakov and Jan Fabre)," included in The Fasinating Faces of Flanders: 20th – Century Flemish Art , Lisbon: Centro Cultural de Belem, 1998.
  • "Ellen K. Levy: Housing Nature," New York: Associated American Artists, 1998.
  • "Bernadette Chéné: Memoir du quotidian," New York: Art in General, 1997.
  • "Jaroslaw Kozakiewicz: Sensual/Conscious/Extrasensory," Warsaw: Center for Contemporary Art, 1997.
  • "Kassia Knap," Luxembourg: Galeria Simoncini, 1997.
  • "SUM," Denmark: Aarhus Kunstforening, 1997.
  • "Stasys Eidrigevicius," Sweden Sotheby's 1995 & Finland: Mikelli Art Museum, 1996, also published in Korean, Japanese, Polish, and Spanish.
  • "Aviva Green: Scale of Emotions," Washington DC: National Academy of Sciences, 1994.
  • "Anna Bialobroda: Wyjscia-Exits," Warsaw: Galeria Krytyków "Pokaz," 1991.

Reviews & Articles

  • Artforum, 1992 – present (regular reviewer); reviews from the U.S., China, Brazil, Peru, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, England, Spain, Turkey, Poland, Czechoslovakia.
  • Art Journal
  • Art in America
  • Bookforum
  • Print magazine
  • Art and Antiques
  • Arts Magazine
  • Structurist
  • Brooklyn Bridge
  • Interior magazine
  • Obieg (magazine published by the Center for Contemporary
  • Art in Warsaw), 1991 – 1999 (U.S. correspondent)
  • Nowy Dziennik, Chief Art Critic (New York correspondent for
  • the cultural review section of the Polish-American Daily News,
  • published in New York), 1988 – 96
  • Gazeta Wyborcza, Format, Kalejdoskop, Zycie Warszawy,
  • Pokaz, Zacheta Bulletin, Midrasz (all in Polish)
  • CAA Reviews on Line

Public Media

Host of a monthly program on the arts in New York for Polish National Television (also shown on Channel 3 in New York), 1989 91, Programs on, among others, James Rosenquist, Frank Stella, the 1991 Whitney Biennial, and the Guerilla Girls.

Participant in making the film "Money Nations, Roundtable at the Swiss Institute in New York, April 1998"

Lectures, Symposia & Panel Discussions

  • Lydia Venieri, New York Public Library, December 2004.
  • The Past and the Present of Painting in the United States, Institute Peruano de Cultura Norte Americano in Lima, Peru: the Escuela Bellas Artes, Cusco, Peru: and Escola de Belas Artes, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeirom, Brazil; June 2003.
  • Adja Yunkers and Abstract Expressionism , The Block Museum, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, January 2002.
  • Adja Yunkers and Abstract Expressionism , The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, April 2001.
  • Art Beyond the East European and Russian Dilemma , Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, November 2000.
  • They Were There: Critics and Artists Talk at the end of the Century , CAA-AICA panel, New York City, February 2000 (together with, among others, Roberta Smith and Peter Schlejdahl).
  • Ten Years After: The Changing Lives and Work of Artists in Post-Communist Europe, Duke University: Durham, North Carolina, October 1999.
  • Katarzyna Kobro: Art and Life , Henry Moore Foundation, Leeds, England, June 1999.
  • Speaker for the Art and Science Lecture Series, Darwin and the Russian Art in the late Nineteenth Century , Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, March 1999.
  • Sculptor without the Pedestal: Katarzyna Kobro , Museum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland, October 1998.
  • Polish Constructivism, The New School for Social Research, New York, NY, October 1998.
  • Four Conversations with Dora Ashton about Contemporary Art , Museum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland; Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw; Center for Contemporary Art, Krakow; and the Ludwig Museums, Budapest, Hungary, May 1998.
  • Bernadette Chéné: Memoir du quotidian , Art in General, New York, NY, April 1997.
  • Contemporary American Art, Fine Arts Academy & Contemporary Art Center – Zamek Ujazdowsik, Warsaw, Poland, April 1997.
  • American Art Today , Ecole des Beaux Arts, Besencon, France, October 1996.
  • American Art Today , Oakdale, NY, October 1996.
  • Contemporary Art in Russian and Eastern Europe , Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH, December 1994.
  • Issues of the Representation of the Holocaust in Contemporary Art, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC, October 1994.
  • Arts and Nationality: Are They Compatible? , Berlin Shafir Gallery, New York, NY, May 1994.
  • Transitions and Translations, The University Galleries, Central Connecticut State University, CT, April 1994.
  • The Mlodezeniec Family – Three Generations of Artists , Polnisches Institute Fur Kultur, Berlin, Germany, January 1994.
  • Printmaking in Poland, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, December 1993.
  • American Artist' and Critics' Journey to Polish Art , The New School for Social Research, New York, NY, December 1993.
  • East European Influences on Art , Yale University, New Haven, CT, June 1992.
  • Nineteenth Century Polish Painting , Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, April 1992.
  • Contemporary Polish Poster, Municipal Museum, The Hague, Holland, March 1992.
  • Polish Illustrators in the American Press , Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, September 1991.
  • Architecture of Warsaw, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, May 1991.

Selected Curatorial Experience

Freelance Curator 1987 – present

  • "Adja Yunkers: Retrospective" Bayly Art Museum, Charlottesville, VA, March 2000, traveling to the University of Georgia Art Gallery (late Fall 2001) and the Block Gallery at Northwestern University in Chicago (Spring 2002).
  • "Sequences: AS YOU CAN SEE: Russian Conceptualism" The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, March 1997.
  • "Saint Petersburg: Creators of Russian Theater," World Financial Center, New York, NY, January 1997 (Consultant).
  • "Polish Prints from the Eighties," Parsons School of Design, New York, NY, November 1991.
  • "Anna Bialobroda: Exit Paintings," Galeria Krytyków Pokaz, Warsaw, Poland, September 1991.
  • "Hanna Zawa: Flirt with Kandinskym" Studio Gallery, Dussldorf, Germany, May 1990.

Memberships & Organizations

  • College Art Association (CAA), 1999 – present
  • Historians of German and Central European Art and Architecture (HGCEA)
  • International Association of Art Critics (AICA – U.S. section)

Languages

  • English
  • French
  • Russian
  • Polish
  • German reading only

Awards & Recognition

  • Edward Sharp Burdell Award from Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art to develop courses in Art, Science, and Techonlogy, 2001.
  • Graduate Teaching Fellowship 1998 – 1999, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY.
  • Dissertation Year Fellowship 1997 – 1998, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY.
  • Fellow of the 1997/1998 Seminar "Arts in Transition: Literature and Visual Arts in Russia, Central and East Europe since 1989m" Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ.
  • Judith Rothschild Foundation Award, New York, NY, 1997 and 2000.