As this upcoming academic year's John and Dominique de Menil Fellow, Ph.D. candidate Karine Raynor will work under the guidance of The Menil Collection's internationally respected curatorial departments, completing research under the Permanent Collection Research and Exhibition Projects.
Karine Raynor's area of focus as a doctoral student in the Department of Art History is the pre-war avant-gardes and Dada, but her previous experience has concentrated on curation and collection management in myriad settings in modern and contemporary art. In addition, her enthusiasm for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality has led her to pursue a graduate certificate at Rice in this area and has coalesced and helped to develop the subject of her dissertation titled “Mecanomorphs and the Articulated Body/Machines of Dada: From Object-based Practices to Performance Art.” Karine has robust experience with collections management and event and exhibition planning including past internships completed at the Walter Phillips Gallery of the Banff Centre of the Arts and Creativity and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal. Since 2017, she has been working as the curator of a solo exhibition project of the Canadian artist Peter Krausz titled Eklektikos, which will take place at the University of Montreal Art Gallery in Montreal, Canada, from September to December 2021. Karine hopes to use her strong background in contemporary art research and curatorial practices to work towards understanding the acquisition process within a larger museum setting at the Menil.
[Image: Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, "Silence," c. 1915]