Chelsea Haines
Haines is a historian of global modern and contemporary art and architecture who writes on histories and theories of museums, exhibitions, and the politics of display, with a specialization in Israel/Palestine. At ASU, she incorporates into her research and teaching critical studies of citizenship, comparative borderlands, and material and ideological imaginings of land, landscape, and environment in modern and contemporary art. Her current book project explores the role of art exhibitions in Israeli nation-building from the 1940s to the 1960s. She is also at work on a new research project charting migrations of Jewish artists to Latin America during and after the Second World War.
Since 2009, she has organized exhibitions and public programs for institutions such as Independent Curators International, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Hudson Valley Museum of Contemporary Art, Portland State University, the Shanghai Biennial, and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School.
Education
PhD, Art History, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, 2020
Expertise Areas
Area of study
Publications
Book Chapters
“Messianic Affinities: Tali Keren’s The Great Seal and Un-Charting” in Imagined Israel(s): Projections of the Jewish State in the Arts, ed. Rocco Giansante and Luna Goldberg (Leiden: Brill Publishers, 2023), 110–28.
“Universal Civilization and National Cultures: Producing Israel at the Venice Biennale, 1948–1952,” in Exhibitions Beyond Boundaries: Transnational Exchanges through Art, Architecture, and Design from 1945, ed. Harriet Atkinson, Verity Clarkson, and Sarah Lichtman (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022), 19–38.
“The Distant Image,” in Assuming Boycott: Resistance, Agency, and Cultural Production, ed. Kareem Estefan, Carin Kuoni, and Laura Raicovich (New York: OR Books, 2017), 187–197.
Journal Articles
“Traumatic Realism and Exhibition Design at the Ghetto Fighters’ House, 1953,” Exhibiting the Holocaust in the Immediate Postwar Period: Histories, Practices, and Politics, ed. Rachel Perry and Agata Pietrasik. Special issue of The Journal of Holocaust Research (Summer 2023): np.
“Editors’ Introduction” (with Gemma Sharpe), Art, Institutions, and Internationalism, 1945–1973. Special issue of ARTMargins 8, no 2 (Summer 2019): 3–14.
“A New State of the Arts: Developing the Biennial Model as Ethical Arts Practice,” New Directions in Museum Ethics. Special issue of Museum Management & Curatorship 26, no. 2 (Spring 2011): 163–175.
Edited Volumes
Co-Editor (with Gemma Sharpe). Art, Institutions, and Internationalism, 1945–1973. Special issue of ARTMargins 8, no 2 (Summer 2019).
Co-Editor (with Carin Kuoni). Entry Points: The Vera List Center Field Guide on Art and Social Justice (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2015).
Co-Editor (with Janet Marstine and Alexander Bauer), New Directions in Museum Ethics. Special issue of Museum Management & Curatorship 26, no. 2 (Spring 2011).
Exhibition Catalogues
“When Sky and Ground Meet,” in Interpretations: Portrait of a Museum, ed. Yaniv Shapira (Ein Harod, Israel: Mishkan le-Omanut, 2019), 124–128.
“Second Nature,” in Second Nature (New York: Parsons The New School for Design, 2017), 7–13.
“Hidden in Plain Sight,” in Dor Guez: The Sick Man of Europe (Jerusalem: The Museum for Islamic Art, 2017), 47–52.
“Seeking Agency in Repetition: X90’s Copy as Original,” in Mono Schwarz-Kogelnik (New York: ISCP, 2013), np.
Book Reviews
Review of Belonging and Betrayal: How Jews Made the Art World Modern and The House of Fragile Things: Jewish Art Collectors and the Fall of France, Art in America (March 2022).
Review of Curating Under Pressure: International Perspectives on Negotiating Conflict and Upholding Integrity, Journal of Curatorial Studies 10, no. 1 (Spring 2021): 135–138.
Review of Museum Diplomacy: Transnational Public History and the U.S. Department of State, Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archive Professionals 16, no. 4 (Winter 2020): 522–524.
Review of Exhibition as Social Intervention: ‘Culture in Action’ 1993, Journal of Curatorial Studies4, no. 1 (Spring 2015): 431–434.
Conference Reviews
Review of Exhibition as Medium, Journal of Curatorial Studies 2, no. 2 (Winter 2013): 429–432.
Art Criticism
“Picturing the Holy Land,” Art in America, December 2022, 58–63.
Exhibition Reviews
“At the Venice Biennale, a Border-Defying Yiddishland Pavilion,” Hyperallergic, July 10, 2022.
“Exhibiting the Afterlives of Looted Art,” Hyperallergic, October 25, 2021.
“Zineb Sedira,” artforum.com, October 20, 2021.
“Tamir Zadok,” artforum.com, November 8, 2017.
“The Unmaking of Art,” artforum.com, December 20, 2014.
“Charles Gaines,” artforum.com, August 17, 2014.
“Days of the Commune,” artforum.com, August 6, 2014.
“Confidence Building Measures,” artforum.com, July 6, 2014.
“13 Most Wanted Men,” artforum.com, May 18, 2014.
“Leigh Ledare,” artforum.com, April 17, 2014.
“Laure Prouvost,” artforum.com, February 28, 2014.
“Alien She,” artforum.com, January 13, 2014.
“Descartes Daughter,” artforum.com, October 24, 2013.