Lawrence Rinder
Curator for Twentieth-Century Art at the University Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California at Berkeley.
Among the exhibitions he has organized there are Dennis Oppenheim: Land and Body Projects, 1967-71 (1993); Andrea Fraser: Aren't they Lovely? (1992); Yoko Ono/Fluxus (1991); and Where There Is Where There: The Prints of John Cage (1990). As a curator of the UAM/PFA MATRIX Program, Mr. Rinder has organized exhibitions of works by Nayland Blake, Sophie Calle, Ed Ruscha, Kiki Smith, Cindy Sherman, and Richard Tuttle, among many others. In addition, Mr. Rinder has served on the advisory board for the 1991 and 1993 Biennials of the Whitney Museum of American Art and organized various exhibitions, including Theresa Kyung Cha: Other Things Seen, Other Things Heard at the Whitney Museum of American Art (1992); Tim Rollins + K.O.S. at the Walker Art Center (1989); Self-Evidence at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (1989); and Plans for an Alternative Gallery at Gallery Nature Morte (1988). From 1983 to 1986 he was educational consultant at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. His art criticism has been published in various national and international periodicals including Shift, Flash Art, and Artforum. Mr. Rinder received a B.A. from Reed College and an M.A. in art history from Hunter College.


