Biography
Art historian and independent curator Terri Geis is a Visiting Associate Professor, Art and Art History, at New York University, Abu Dhabi (2021–ongoing), and she also teaches at the European Graduate School (2020–ongoing). She previously worked in academic engagement and interpretation at the Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, USA (2011–2016, 2018–2019), and the Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles (2016–2018). Her research interests include women artists affiliated with Surrealism and the intersections between Surrealism and the Americas.
Among her publications are Prometheus 2017: Four Artists from Mexico Revisit Orozco (Pomona College Museum of Art, 2017), R.S.V.P. Los Angeles: The Project Series at Pomona (Pomona College Museum of Art, 2015) and In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2012). She has also written for Cahiers d’Art (2021), The Oystercatcher (2021), Revue Miranda (2017), South Central Review (2015) and Dada/Surrealism (2013).
Geis has received a senior fellowship (with Manthia Diawara) from the Dedalus Foundation, New York (2021), and a research fellowship from Mémorial ACTe, Point-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe (2020–2021), as well as grants from the Pacific Standard Time LA/LA Initiative, Getty Foundation, Los Angeles (2017), Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago (2016) and Samual H. Kress Foundation, Cherryville, USA (2014).
She earned a BA (with Distinction) in Art History and English Literature from the University of St Andrews (1998); an MPhil (with Distinction) in Womens Studies, Trinity College, Dublin (2000); and a PhD in Art History and Theory from the University of Essex, Colchester, UK (2006).
Born in 1972 in Pasadena, USA, she lives and works between Abu Dhabi, New York and Senegal.
SAF participation:
March Meeting 2023