THE FIRST CLEVELAND BIENNIAL JURIED EXHIBITION

Janet Bishop Curator of Painting and Sculpture, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art  biographical statement In 1988, Janet Bishop joined SFMOMA as a curatorial assistant. She was promoted to assistant curator of painting and sculpture in 1992, associate curator in 1997, and took on full curatorial status in March 2000.  Bishop's recent projects at SFMOMA include "Present Tense: Nine Artists in the Nineties" (1997), "New Work: Painting Today" (1999), and innovative collection-based projects such as "System Aesthetics" (1996), "Fact/Fiction: Contemporary Art That Walks the Line" (2000), and "Points of Departure: Connecting with Contemporary Art" (2001).  She was part of the curatorial team for SFMOMA's recently-concluded major international exhibition: "010101: Art in Technological Times."  Bishop is also curator of SFMOMA's biennial SECA Art Award exhibitions in painting and sculpture.  Prior to joining SFMOMA, Bishop worked as a onservation assistant at the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library at Columbia University and in the print room at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University. She received her master's in art history from Columbia and her B.A. in art history and psychology from Cornell.   juror's curriculum vitae    juror's statement    director's statement    main page