Kelly Baum

Haskell Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art


Kelly Baum received a Ph.D. from the University of Delaware in 2005. From 2002 to 2007, she was the assistant curator of contemporary art at the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin, and from 2008 to mid 2010, she was the Locks Curatorial Fellow for Contemporary Art at the Princeton University Art Museum. She has published a number of articles, brochures, and catalogues on contemporary art and has organized several exhibitions, including Carol Bove (2006); Jedediah Caesar (2007), The Sirens' Song (2007), Transactions (2007), and Body Memory (2008, with Joel Smith). Kelly's area of specialty extends to modern and postwar art as well. She recently published an article on a 1972 performance by Cuban-American artist Ana Mendieta for PUAM's Record, and a chapter from her dissertation on the Situationist International (1957-1972) appeared in the fall 2008 issue of October. Kelly is currently at work on two exhibitions for fall 2010: Nobody's Property: Art, Land, Space, 2000-2010, and Doug Aitken: Migration (Empire).
William Merritt Chase, American, 1849–1916
Landscape: Shinnecock, Long Island, ca. 1896
Oil on wood panel
36.3 x 40.9 cm. (14 5/16 x 16 1/8 in.)
Gift of Francis A. Comstock, Class of 1919 (y1939-35 )
photo: Bruce M. White