Education
Suzanne Gold ( Lives and Works in Baltimore, U.S.A.)
M.F.A. Writing, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2015.
B.A. History of Art, Writing Seminars, and Museums & Society, Johns Hopkins University, 2010.
Kelly Lloyd (Lives and Works in Oxford, U.K.)
DPhil Fine Art, University of Oxford, 2020 - Present
M.A. Visual & Critical Studies & M.F.A. Painting & Drawing, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2015.
B.A. Studio Art & African-American Studies, Oberlin College, 2008.
Michal Lynn Shumate (Lives and Works in Bomarzo, Italy)
PhD Cultural Heritage, Scuola IMT Alti Studi Lucca, 2020 - Present
M.A. Visual & Critical Studies, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2018.
M.A. Art History, John Cabot University, 2018; A.B. Art History, University of Chicago, 2009.
Employment
Instructors, bologna.lab, Humboldt Universitat zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany (Spring 2018).
Instructors, Ox-bow School of Art, Saugatuck, MI (Summer 2017).
Lectures
“Hair”, Allure of Matter, Smart Museum, Chicago, U.S.A. (May 2020).
“Hair”, Salon 33: Hair, Museum of Modern Art, New York, U.S.A.(October 2019).
“LATHER RINSE REPEAT: THE ITERATIVE PRACTICE AND PEDAGOGY OF HAIR CLUB”, XXII Generative Art Conference, The Etruscan Museum Museum, Rome, Italy (December
2019).
“Suzanne Gold”, HIRSHHORN/AM, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. U.S.A. (September 2019).
“Wet Hair: Visual Culture of the Mermaid”, Centre for Port and Maritime History Annual Conference, Liverpool, U.K. (September 2019).
“Combs”, Baltimore Jewelry Center, Baltimore, U.S.A. (September 2018).
“Collaborative Research”, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, U.S.A. (April 2015).
Grants
Propeller Fund Grant for Publication, Research, and Curriculum Development, Chicago, U.S.A. (2015).
EAGER Grant for Collaborative Research and Programming, Chicago, U.S.A. (2014).
Publications
HAIR CLUB, “HAIR CLUB: Towards a Hair Studies Discipline”, Socially Engaged Art History and Beyond: Alternative
Approaches to the Theory and Practice of Art History, Palgrave Macmillan; HAIR CLUB, “Book of HAIR,” (2016).
Suzanne Gold, Remnants: An Anthology of Hair Aftermath(2017).
Nathaniel Jones, ATG: Against the Grain(2016).
HAIR CLUB, Book of Hair (2016).
Media and Press
Paper Cuts Zines InterviewsHAIR CLUB, 2017.
On the Blonde Stereotype, Lumpen Radio, 2016.
Zoya Brumberg, “For a new students research team, hair is not something we should just brush off,” E&D(Spring 2015).