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Cheryl Brutvan
Before her appointment as the Beal Curator of Contemporary Art at the MFA in Boston, Brutvan served as senior curator at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, N.Y., and as assistant curator at the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston.
Exhibitions she has organized include The Paintings of Sylvia Plimack Mangold, which circulated nationally; Susan Rothenberg: Paintings from the Nineties; Takashi Murakami: Made in Japan; Sophie Ristelhueber: Details of the World; and A Selection of Work by Damien Hirst from Various Collections.
Brutvan was also the curator for the presentation of Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons: Four Decades of Art from the Broad Collections in 2002. That marked the first major exhibition of contemporary art to be installed in the MFA's primary special exhibition space in 10 years.
She has organized numerous exhibitions, participated in panels, and written articles in addition to her responsibilities as head of the Department of Contemporary Art. Brutvan earned her Master of Arts in the history of art at Williams College.
Valerie Cassel Oliver
As the associate curator at the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, Cassel Oliver recently organized Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since 1970.
Prior to joining the museum, she was director of the Visiting Artists Program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a program specialist at the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2000, she also served as co-curator of the Biennial Exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.
While at the Contemporary Arts Museum, she organized the first U.S. solo exhibition of the work of painter Ghada Amer and exhibitions by film installation artist Bill Lundberg, conceptual artist Sanford Biggers, and sculptor Anne Wilson. Last year, she curated the first solo museum exhibition of work by Su-en Wong. Her group exhibitions include Splat Boom Pow! The Influence of Cartoons in Contemporary Art and Boys Behaving Badly.
A graduate of the University of Texas in Austin, she holds a Master of Arts in art history from Howard University and sits on advisory boards for arts groups across the country.
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