Juli c. Carson

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Director University Art Galleries, Art
Claire Trevor School of the Arts
Ph.D., MIT, 2000, Art History
Phone: (949) 824-9854
Email: carsonj@uci.edu
University of California, Irvine
152 UAG
Mail Code: 2775
Irvine, CA 92697
Research Interests
Conceptual Art, Psychoanalysis, Film Theory, Continental Philosophy, Economics, Neuroscience
Research Abstract
Juli Carson received her PhD from M.I.T. in the History, Theory and Criticism of Art Program in the Department of Architecture. Currently, she is Professor of Art History in the Art Department at UCIrvine, where she directs the Critical and Curatorial MFA Program and the University Art Galleries. She is author of Exile of the Imaginary: Politics, Aesthetics, Love (Vienna: Generali Foundation, 2007) and curator of the archival exhibition accompanying Mary Kelly’s Post-Partum Document (Vienna: Generali Foundation, 1998). Her essays on conceptual art and psychoanalysis have been published in Art Journal, Documents, October, Texte Zur Kunst and X-Tra, as well as in numerous international anthologies and catalogues. Her most recent book is The Limits of Representation: Psychoanalysis and Critical Aesthetics (Buenos Aires: Letra Viva Press, 2011). Her forthcoming book is The Conceptual Unconscious: A Poetics of Critique. She is currently preparing a monograph on the work of Daniel Joseph Martinez.
Last updated
07/21/2015