Shelley Rice

Shelley Rice
Born (1950-08-20) August 20, 1950 (age 76)
New York City
Occupations
  • Art historian
  • art critic
Awards
Academic background
Education
Academic work
DisciplineArt history
Sub-discipline
Photography history
Institutions

Shelley Rice (born August 20, 1950) is an American art historian and critic who specializes in photography. A 1992 Guggenheim Fellow, she has written several books, including Parisian Views (1997). She is a professor at New York University Tisch School of the Arts.

Biography

Rice was born on August 20, 1950 in New York City. She obtained a BA from Stony Brook University in 1972 and MA from the New York University Institute of Fine Arts in 1975, before working as a PhD student at Princeton University.

In 1975, Rice joined the School of Visual Arts faculty. She worked as an art adjunct instructor at Brooklyn College (1972-1977) and Temple University (1978-1980), before becoming an adjunct assistant professor of art history and photography at New York University in 1981. She later joined the faculty of New York University Tisch School of the Arts, eventually becoming an arts professor. She has also worked as a visiting professor at the École normale supérieure and the University of Zurich.

Rice has written and edited several books, including Parisian Views (1997), which studies photography's relationship with Paris' redevelopment in the Second French Empire, Inverted Odysseys: Claude Cahun, Maya Deren, Cindy Sherman (1999), and Xing Danwen (2015), and has co-authored several more. She is also an art and photography critic and works as a freelancer, writing for several publications and, in some cases, writing as a columnist. She won the 1989 PEN/Jerard Award for Non-Fiction Essay, and she won a 1999 Kraszna-Krausz Prize for Parisian Views.

Rice has curated several exhibitions within New York City museums and art galleries, some of which are located at NYU. She and Sandi Fellman were co-curators of the Avon Collection, a collection of works by women photographers formed by Avon Products.

Rice was a 1980 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow. In 1992, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for "a study of photography in France and Haussmann's reconstruction of Paris". She was a Fulbright Research Fellow at the Musée Carnavalet (1988-1989) and a Fulbright Lecture Fellow at Boğaziçi University (1998-1999), in the latter's case building a public television media center. In 2010, she was awarded Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

Works

Books

  • (co-author) Landmarks (1984)
  • (co-author) Paris et le Daguerreotype (1990)
  • (co-author) Jacques-Henri Lartigue (1993)
  • (co-author) Pictorial Effect/Naturalistic Vision (1994)
  • (co-author) The Art of the Everyday (1997)
  • Parisian Views (1997)
  • (ed.) Inverted Odysseys: Claude Cahun, Maya Deren, Cindy Sherman (1999)
  • The Book of 101 Books (2001, essayist)
  • (co-author) Vik Muniz (2004)
  • (co-author) Candida Hofer: In Portugal (2007)
  • (co-author) American Photography (2012)
  • (co-author) Marc Ferrez: Rio (2015)
  • Xing Danwen (2015).
  • (co-author) Hank Willis Thomas’ Unbranded: A Century of White Women (2015)

Curated exhibitions

  • Deconstruction/Reconstruction (1980), The New Museum
  • Schemes: A Decade of Installation Drawings (1981), Elise Meyer Gallery
  • Inverted Odysseys: Claude Cahun, Maya Deren, Cindy Sherman (1999-2000, with Lynn Gumpert), New York University Grey Art Gallery
  • The View from Left Field: Photographs from the Photo Morgue of the Daily Worker (2013, with Michael Nash), Tamiment Library at New York University

References

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  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Reports of the President and the Treasurer. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 1990. p. 167.
  3. ↑ "Parisian Views". MIT Press. Archived from the original on September 17, 2024. Retrieved May 14, 2026.
  4. 1 2 "Art History's Rice and Silver Named to France's Ordre des Arts et Des Lettres". www.nyu.edu. 2010. Retrieved May 14, 2026.
  5. ↑ "Past Photography winners". Kraszna-Krausz. Retrieved May 14, 2026.
  6. ↑ Brunskill, Joan (August 31, 1997). "Focus is on female photographers". The Akron Beacon Journal. p. D4 – via Newspapers.com.
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  10. ↑ Harris, David (1998). "Review of Parisian Views". AA Files (37): 81–84. ISSN 0261-6823. JSTOR 29544129.
  11. ↑ Aubenas, Sylvie (1998). "Shelley RICE, Parisian Views". Études Photographiques. 5. ProQuest 864802945.
  12. ↑ Anderson-Spivy, Alexandra (1998). "Parisian Views". Art Journal. 57 (3): 99. ProQuest 223312753.
  13. ↑ Stuttaford, Genevieve; Simson, Maria; Zaleski, Jeff (October 13, 1997). "Parisian Views". Publishers Weekly. Vol. 244, no. 42. p. 69. ProQuest 197015654.
  14. ↑ Miller, Debora (February 1, 2000). "Inverted Odysseys: Claude Cahun, Maya Deren, Cindy Sherman". Library Journal. Vol. 125, no. 2. pp. 80–81. ProQuest 196759959.
  15. ↑ "Inverted Odysseys: Claude Cahun, Maya Deren, Cindy Sherman". Grey Art Museum. 2015. Archived from the original on February 11, 2026. Retrieved May 14, 2026.