JOE SCANLAN NAMED DIRECTOR OF THE PROGRAM IN VISUAL ARTS AT PRINCETON UNIVERSITY’S LEWIS CENTER

Joe Scanlan has been selected as the new director of the program in visual arts at Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts. The sculptor and installation artist was associate professor at the Yale University School of Art since 2001. Prior to his position at Yale, Scanlan served as assistant director of the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, a contemporary art museum specializing in radical, conceptual, and installation-based artworks. He has received numerous awards and fellowships from organizations including the Creative Capital Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Larry Kramer Initiative for Lesbian and Gay Studies at Yale.

Scanlan has presented his work throughout the United States and Europe, mounting nineteen solo exhibitions in the past decade. As an art critic, Scanlan has published more than fifty articles and reviews in international periodicals including Artforum, Art Issues, Frieze, and Parkett. Scanlan is the holder of US patent number 6,488,732 for a process of converting postconsumer waste into viable potting soil.