Lawrence Rinder

Lawrence Rinder is dean of Graduate Studies at California College of the Arts and was previously the Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator of Contemporary Art at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Prior to his work at the Whitney, Rinder was founding director of the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts and assistant director and curator for twentieth-century art at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. His art criticism has been published in Flash Art, Artforum, Nest, The Village Voice, Fillip, and Parkett. The recently published Art Life Selected Writings 1991-2005 gathers together his writings that examine the nuances and idiosyncrasies of how art shapes everyday life.