Super Dakota
Art Cologne 2019

Super Dakota – Art Cologne 2019 Application : Sector Collaborations

Super Dakota has invited Alex Bacon to curate an installation for the Sector Collaborations of Art Cologne 2019.

Alex Bacon is an art historian based in New York City who also regularly writes criticism and organizes exhibitions of both contemporary and historical art. Bacon is currently a Curatorial Associate at the Princeton University Art Museum. Among his publications Bacon is co-editor, with Hal Foster, of a collection of essays on Richard Hamilton (MIT Press, 2010), as well as the author of texts in various exhibition catalogs and edited volumes on artists such as Francis Alÿs, Simon Hantaï, Josiah McElheny, Ad Reinhardt, Niele Toroni, and Stanley Whitney. He has written for numerous publications, including Artforum.com, Art in America, the Brooklyn Rail, Mousse, and Rhizome. He has taught at the School of Visual Arts, and has served as a guest critic in the graduate painting departments of the Rhode Island School of Design and AKV/St. Joost. He has curated numerous exhibitions, the most recent of which is a presentation at Lisson Gallery, New York of the spray paintings and photographs of Roy Colmer. He has spoken at various institutions, including Harvard; the ICA, London; The New Museum; and the Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt. He is currently finishing up his PhD in art history at Princeton, with a dissertation on the first decade of Frank Stella’s career.