Jane Farver Explained

Jane Farver (1947–2015) was a curator and director in the field of international contemporary art. Farver was a director at the Lehman College Art Gallery, the Tomoko Liguori Gallery, the chief curator of the Queens Museum of Art from 1992 - 1999, and the head of the MIT List Visual Arts Center from 1999 to 2011.[1] She also was a curator at The Alternative Museum of New York and a director of Spaces in Cleveland, Ohio. She was also a guest co-curator of the 2000 Whitney Biennial and an Artistic Director of the 2011 Incheon Women Artists' Biennale in Incheon, South Korea.[2] She died of a heart attack in 2015. Her partner John L. Moore is also a noted painter and curator.

One of Farver's more well regarded works was the 1999 Queens Museum show Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin 1950s-1980s, which covered conceptualist art.[3]

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  1. https://post.at.moma.org/profiles/1401-jane-farver Jane Farver
  2. https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/jane-farver-former-mit-list-head-queens-museum-curator-died-293758 Jane Farver, Former MIT List Head and Queens Museum Curator, Has Died in Venice
  3. http://artasiapacific.com/News/CuratorJaneFarverDiesAt68 CURATOR JANE FARVER DIES AT 68