Bio
Solveig Nelson is an art critic and art historian who recently completed their dissertation, “The Whole World is (Still) Watching: the Televisual, Early Video Art, Nonviolent Direct Action, 1940s–1970s,” at the University of Chicago's Art History Department. Nelson has taught courses including "Warhol's Art Histories," "Art in Chicago," "New Queer Cinema and the Art of the Culture Wars," "Histories of Video Art," and "20th Century Art." As the Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow in Time-Based Media at the Art Institute of Chicago (September 2018-Sept 2020,) Nelson played a central role in the Art Institute of Chicago's cross-departmental Time Based Media Initiative. She has co-curated exhibitions and symposia including "Subscribe: Artists and Alternative Magazines, 1979-1995" (co-curated with Michal Raz-Russo, forthcoming); the Chicago presentation of "Gregg Bordowitz: I Wanna Be Well" (co-curated with Robyn Farrell; originating curator Stephanie Snyder); "Vaginal Davis: The White to be Angry" (co-curated with Hendrik Folkerts); and the symposium "Unfolding: Production and Process in Time-Based Media Art and Conservation" (co-curated with Kristin MacDonough, Maria Kokorri, and Jill Bugajski);. Nelson has recently published the essay "Steve McQueen and New Queer Cinema" in McQueen's 2020 retrospective catalog at the Tate Modern, and is recipient of a 2017–18 Creative Capital Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant for the forthcoming essay, "Gretchen Bender's Total Recall and the Feminist Return of Television Art." Nelson has held fellowships from the Luce/ACLS and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. They have contributed feature essays and exhibition reviews to Artforum since 2012, including the first iteration of a future project about queer performance and art practices in Chicago during the 1980s-1990s.
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