Graduate Center of the City University of New York
Graduate Student, Art History
PhD Candidate
Thesis Title: Let the Record Show: Mapping Queer Art Activism in New York City, 1987-1995
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Kevin D. Murphy
Claire Bishop David Gerstner |
About
Tara Burk is a seventh-year PhD candidate working with Professor Kevin Murphy at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her dissertation examines the relationship between public art and spatial politics during the urban upheaval of New York City in the 1980s and 1990s. She received her B.A. in Art History from Stony Brook University in 2004. In 2012, Tara presented papers at the IFA-Frick Symposium on the History of Art and the College Art Association. She has forthcoming peer-reviewed publications in the Journal of Curatorial Studies and Parallax. During the 2012-2013 academic year, Tara will be a graduate fellow at the Center for Place, Culture and Politics, present a paper on the films of Gregg Araki at the University of Pennsylvania conference “(un)SAFE” and chair a panel on the topic of art and identity politics in the 1990s at the College Art Association Annual Meeting.
