Vivien M. Greene Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Senior Curator, 19th- and Early 20th-Century Art, 1071 5th Avenue Guggenheim Museum New York, NY 10128 Curator at Large, Peggy Guggenheim Collection vgreene@guggenheim.org EDUCATION ..................................................................................................................... The Graduate Center, City University of New York, Ph.D., 2005 Major: Nineteenth-Century European Painting and Sculpture Minors: American Art; Non-Western Art Dissertation: Italian Divisionism in the 1890s: the Forging of a Modern Identity Advisors: Patricia Mainardi, Emily Braun Southern Methodist University, M.A., Art History, 1993 Thesis: The Polyvalent References in Gustave Moreau's Depictions of Salomé Advisors: Alessandra Comini, Paul Michael Driskell Università di Roma, La Sapienza, Individual course work in Art History, 1988-89 University of California at Santa Cruz, B.A., Comparative Literature in Italian and French, 1987 SELECTED EXHIBITIONS ..................................................................................................................... Orphism in Paris and Beyond, 1910-1930 [co-curator], Guggenheim Museum, New York (forthcoming Nov. 2024-Mar. 2025) Migrating Objects: Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas in the Peggy Guggenheim Collection [co- curator with advisory committee], Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, 2020/21 A Backward Glance: Giorgio Morandi and the Old Masters [advisor], Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, 2019 Mystical Symbolism: The Salon de la Rose+Croix in Paris, 1892-1897, Guggenheim Museum, New York; Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, 2017 Italian Futurism, 1909-1944: Reconstructing the Universe, Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2014 The Avant-gardes of Fin-de-siècle Paris: Signac, Bonnard, Redon and their Contemporaries, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, 2013; Paris, Fin-de-Siècle: Signac, Redon, Toulouse-Lautrec and their Contemporaries, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, 2017 The Vorticists: Rebel Artists in London and New York, 1914-1918 [co-curator], Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University; Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice; Tate Britain, London, 2010-11 Utopia Matters: From Brotherhoods to Bauhaus, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin; Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, 2010 Divisionism/Neo-Impressionism: Arcadia and Anarchy, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin; Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2007 Citizens and Kings: Portraits in the Age of Revolution, 1760-1830 [co-curator], Musée du Louvre/RMN, Paris; Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2005-06 Boccioni’s Materia: A Futurist Masterpiece and the Avant-garde in Milan and Paris [co-curator], Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2004 1900: Art at the Crossroads [co-curator], Royal Academy of Arts, London; Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2000 SELECTED PUBLICATIONS [Authored and Edited] ..................................................................................................................... “A Case Study of Two Paintings not included in Ambrogio Ceroni’s Modigliani publication of 1970,” coauthored with Simonetta Fraquelli, Annette King, Lena Stringari and Joyce H. Townsend, Tate Papers, no. 35 (forthcoming 2023). Head; Nude; Jeanne Hébuterne with Yellow Sweater; and Portrait of a Student, coauthor, catalogue entries. In Modigliani Under the Microscope, Barbara Buckley, Simonetta Fraquelli, Nancy Ireson, and Annette King, eds. Philadelphia: Barnes Foundation; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022. “The Final Ramp: Addressing Fascism in Italian Futurism at the Guggenheim Museum.” In Curating Fascism: Exhibitions and Memory from the Fall of Mussolini to Today, Sharon Hecker and Raffaele Bedarida, eds. London: Bloomsbury, 2022. [peer reviewed] “Decadence in Symbolist Art of the Fin de Siècle.” In The Oxford Handbook of Decadence, Jane Desmarais and David Weir, eds. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. [peer reviewed] Surrealism and Magic: Enchanted Modernity, co-editor. Venice: Peggy Guggenheim Collection/Potsdam: Museum Barberini, 2022. “The Life of a Painting as Traced by Technical Analysis: Original Materials and Posthumous Alterations in Édouard Manet’s Woman in Striped Dress,” coauthored with Federica Pozzi, Silvia A. Centeno, Federico Carò, Gillian McMillan, and Lena Stringari, Coatings 11, no. 1334 (2021). Migrating Objects: Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas in the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, editor. Venice: Peggy Guggenheim Collection, 2020. The Last Dogaressa, co-editor with Karole P.B. Vail. Venice: Peggy Guggenheim Collection, 2019. Guggenheim Museum Collection: A-Z, co-editor with Nancy Spector, and contributor. New York: Guggenheim Museum, 2019. “Hilma af Klint and the Swedish Folk Art Tradition. In Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future (exh. cat.), Tracey Bashkoff, ed. New York: Guggenheim Museum, 2018. “Revealing Édouard Manet’s Woman in Striped Dress,” coauthored with Gillian McMillan. In Thannhauser Collection: French Modernism at the Guggenheim, Megan Fontanella, ed. New York: Guggenheim Museum, 2017. “In search of the Rose+Croix artists,” Apollo (July-August 2017). “The Religion of Art.” In Mystical Symbolism: The Salon de la Rose+Croix in Paris, 1892-1897 (exh. cat.), Vivien Greene, ed. New York: Guggenheim Museum, 2017. “Odilon Redon’s The Reader: An Open/Closed Book.” In Paris, Fin-de-Siècle: Signac, Redon, Toulouse- Lautrec and their Contemporaries (exh. cat.), Vivien Greene, ed. Bilbao: Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, 2017. “A Time and Place: Pissarro’s The Hermitage at Pontoise, ca. 1867.” In Visionaries: Creating a Modern Guggenheim (exh. cat.), Megan Fontanella, ed. New York: Guggenheim Museum, 2017. “Pittura ideista: the Spiritual in Divisionist Painting.” California Italian Studies Journal 5, no.1, special issue, The Sacred in Italian Culture: Forms and Practices, 2014. [peer reviewed] Italian Futurism, 1909-1944: Reconstructing the Universe (exh. cat.), editor and contributor. New York: Guggenheim Museum, 2014. “John Quinn and Vorticist Painting: The Eye (and Purse) of an American Collector.” In Vorticism: New Perspectives, Mark Antliff and Scott Klein, eds. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. [peer reviewed] “Bizantium and Emporium: fine-secolo magazines in Rome and Milan.” In The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines. Vol. III: Europe 1880-1940, Part 1. Peter Brooker, Sascha Bru, Andrew Thacker, and Christian Weikop, eds. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. [peer reviewed] “The ‘Other’ Africa: Giuseppe Pitrè’s ‘Mostra Etnografica Siciliana’ (1891-92), Journal of Modern Italian Studies 17, no. 3 (June 2012). [peer reviewed] “Utopia / Dystopia,” American Art Journal 25, no. 2 (Summer 2011). [peer reviewed] “Ezra Pound and John Quinn: The 1917 Penguin Club Exhibition.” In The Vorticists: Rebel Artists in London and New York, 1914-18 (exh. cat.), Mark Antliff and Vivien Greene, eds. London: Tate, 2010. “Utopia Matters.” In Utopia Matters: from Brotherhoods to Bauhaus (exh. cat.). Berlin: Deutsche Guggenheim; Venice: Peggy Guggenheim Collection, 2009. “Aestheticism and Japan: The Cult of the ‘Orient’.” In The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860-1989 (exh. cat.), Alexandra Munroe, ed. New York: Guggenheim Museum, 2009. “Divisionism’s Symbolist Ascent.” In Radical Light: Italy’s Divisionist Painters (exh. cat.), Simonetta Fraquelli, ed. London: National Gallery; Zurich: Kunsthaus Zurich, 2008. “Painted Measles: The Contagion of Divisionism in Italy.” In Divisionism/Neo-Impressionism: Arcadia and Anarchy (exh. cat.). Berlin and New York: Guggenheim Museum, 2007. “The Path to Universal Synthesis: Boccioni’s Development from Divisionism to Futurism.” In Boccioni’s Materia: A Futurist Masterpiece and the Avant-garde in Milan and Paris (exh. cat.), Laura Mattioli Rossi, ed. New York: Guggenheim Museum, 2004. SELECTED CONFERENCES, LECTURES, SYMPOSIA, and TALKS .............................................................................................................................. Ongoing: Academic programming and presentations at the Guggenheim Museum and affiliate institutions, including symposia, lecture series, scholars’ days; Oversight of Robert Rosenblum Lecture “The Guggenheim’s Amedeo Modigliani Head, 1911-12,” Co-speaker, Modigliani Up Close Symposium, The Barnes Foundation, January 28, 2023 [invited] Keynote lecture, “Arte per l’umanità,” Staging Injustice Study Days, Center for Italian Modern Art, April 2022 [invited lecture] Artwork Anthology: In the Vanilla Grove, Man and Horse (1891) by Paul Gauguin, Conversation with Maile Arvin, University of Utah, Guggenheim Museum, April 2021 Exhibiting Controversial Artists, Conversation with James Finch, Tate Britain, Curator Gathering, Association of Art Museum Curators, February 2021 Artwork Anthology: Joan Miró, The Tilled Field (1923-24), Conversation with Andrew Dowling, Cardiff University, Guggenheim Museum, November 2020 Respondent, “#Milanononsiferma (Milan Won’t Stop): Disguising Disease in Politics and Visual Arts in Post-Unification Italy,” Sharon Hecker and Arianna Arisi Rota, Università di Pavia, Columbia Seminar in Modern Italian Studies, September 2020 Conversation with Pattie Cronin: The Lure of Antiquity, in conjunction with Marino Marini: Arcadian Nudes, Center for Italian Modern Art, November 2019 Moderator, Yasmine Ergas and Martha Rosler on women’s rights, “Summer of Know” series, Guggenheim Museum, July 2018 Moderator, American Academy in Rome “Conversations/Conversazioni” series: NOW HERE IS NOWHERE” with Carl D'Alvia, Tomaso De Luca, Jackie Saccoccio, and Nari Ward, Italian Cultural Institute, November 2017 Moderator, Ruth Ben-Ghiat and Vijay Iyer on creativity in the “strongman” state, “Summer of Know” series, Guggenheim Museum, July 2017 “Exhibiting Italian Futurism,” Speed Museum of Art, Louisville, Kentucky, April 2016 [invited lecture] “Exotic Animals in Italian Inter-war Art and Design from A(ardvarks) to Z(ebras),” Columbia Seminar in Modern Italian Studies, New York, May 2015 [peer reviewed] Rosso Reconsidered, Session co-chair, College Art Association Conference, New York, February 2015 [peer reviewed] Italian Futurism Roundtable, Italian Academy, Columbia University, February 2014 “Exhibiting Italian Futurism in 2014: l’opera d’arte totale,” Italian Interdisciplinary Modernism Workshop, Casa Zerilli-Marimò, New York University, February 2013 [invited presentation] Repositioning Vorticism, co-organizer and speaker, Tate Britain, June 2011 Modernizing Millet, Session co-chair, College Art Association Conference, Chicago, February 2010 [peer reviewed] Futurism at 100: the Measure of a Century, Session moderator, Harvard University, April 2009 [invited] “The Other Africa: Giuseppe Pitrè, Ethno-Anthropology, and ‘Primitivism’ in Italian Modernism,” College Art Association Conference, New York, February 2007 [peer reviewed] “Strikes, Hospices, and Rice Paddies: the Progressive Paintings and Socialist Engagement of the Italian Divisionists in the 1890s,” College Art Association Conference, Philadelphia, February 2002 [peer reviewed] AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, HONORS ………………………………………………………………………….. Ufficiale dell`Ordine della Stella d`Italia, 2017 Director’s Guest, Civitella Ranieri Foundation, August 2016 Albo degli Italofoni, Ministero degli Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale, elected 2016 Association of Art Museum Curators, Award for Excellence, Outstanding Exhibition, for Italian Futurism, 1909-1944: Reconstructing the Universe, 2014 International Art Critics Association, Best Thematic Museum Show in New York, Second Place, for Italian Futurism, 1909-1944: Reconstructing the Universe, 2014 Bogliasco Fellowship, Fall 2009 Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize, Modern Italian Studies, American Academy in Rome, 2003-04 Fulbright Travel Grant to Italy, 2003-04 [declined full grant due to acceptance of Rome Prize] Southern Methodist University, Haakon Research Grant, 1991 Southern Methodist University, Meadows Scholarship, 1989-91 Rotary International Scholarship, Università di Roma, La Sapienza,1988-89 PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES/SERVICE ……………………………………………………………………………... Advisory Committee, Center for Italian Modern Art, 2013-ongoing Jury, American Academy in Rome, Modern Italian Studies Prizes, 2021 US Liaison, Association of Art Museum Curators Foundation, Engagement Program for International Curators - Art Fund UK-Based Pairing, 2020-21 Reader, Alex Ross, Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music, 2019 [pub. 2020] Selection Committee, Association of Art Museum Curators, Award for Excellence, Exhibition, 2016-18 Selection Committee, Association of Art Museum Curators, American Academy in Rome, Kress Curatorial Fellowship, 2014-16 Selection Committee, Bogliasco Foundation, Visual Arts, 2011; 2012; 2015 Mentor, Center for Curatorial Leadership/Mellon Foundation Seminar in Curatorial Practice, 2014 Mentor, Association of Art Museum Curators, 2012 Peer reviewer, The Getty Research Journal (2016), The Journal of Modern History (December 2009) PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS …………………………………………………………………………… Association of Art Museum Curators, member since 2002 (trustee, 2006-11) College Art Association, member since 1990 Columbia Seminar in Modern Italian Studies, member since 2015 LANGUAGES ……………………………………………………………………………… Italian-native speaker; French-fluent; Spanish-intermediate; German-some reading knowledge