{{about||the American autism researcher|Catherine Lord (psychologist)}} '''Catherine Lord''' (born 1949) is an American artist, writer, curator, social activist, professor, and scholar exploring themes of feminism, cultural politics, and colonialism. In 2010, she was awarded the Harvard Arts Medal.<ref name="Harvard">{{cite web|last1=Lavoie|first1=Amy|title=Catherine Lord '70 Receives Harvard Arts Medal|url=http://alumni.harvard.edu/stories/catherine-lord-70-recieves-harvard-arts-medal|access-date=21 June 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130603005720/http://alumni.harvard.edu/stories/catherine-lord-70-recieves-harvard-arts-medal|archive-date=3 June 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Early life and education==
Born in Dominica, she attended a British boarding school in Barbados. When she was 13, she moved to Iowa with her family.<ref name="Harvard"/>
While attending Radcliffe College, where she majored in English, she worked as a research assistant at the Schlesinger Library. She earned her Master of Fine Arts degree in photography and the history of photography at the Visual Studies Workshop, an artists' organization allied with the State University of New York at Buffalo. Lord also edited ''Afterimage'', a journal of photography, film, and video.<ref name="latimes">{{cite web|last1=Curtis|first1=Cathy|title=articles.latimes.com/1991-06-10/entertainment/ca-505_1_art-department|website=Los Angeles Times |date=10 June 1991 |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-06-10-ca-505-story.html|access-date=21 June 2014}}</ref>
==Work==
Her work includes ''The Effect of Tropical Light on White Men'' and the "text/image project".<ref name="irvine">{{cite web|title=University of California Irvine: Faculty|url=http://studioart.arts.uci.edu/faculty/former-faculty/catherinelord.html|website=University of California Irvine|access-date=21 June 2014|archive-date=22 April 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170422213328/http://studioart.arts.uci.edu/faculty/former-faculty/catherinelord.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Lind|first1=Abigail B.|title=Spring 2010 Harvard Arts Medalist|url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2010/4/27/lord-art-work-personal/|website=www.thecrimson.com|publisher=The Crimson|access-date=27 June 2014}}</ref> She edited the catalogue for an exhibition of lesbian art, "All but the Obvious".<ref name="irvine"/>
===Curated work ===
Lord has curated a number of exhibitions, including: "Pervert", "Trash", and "Gender, fucked",<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Joselit|first=David|date=1997|title=Sexual politics: Judy Chicago's Dinner party in feminist art history: Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Gender, fucked: Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle; exhibits|url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=ip,uid&db=aft&AN=503521495&scope=site|journal=Art in America|access-date=March 25, 2016}}</ref> and "Memories of Overdevelopment: Philippine Diaspora in Contemporary Visual Art."{{where|date=July 2014}}<ref name="irvine"/>
=== Published work === Lord published an experimental narrative, ''The Summer of Her Baldness: A Cancer Improvisation'', in which she shares her experience of gender during chemotherapy.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Patterson|first=Pam|date=2004|title=The Summer of Her Baldness: A Cancer Improvisation|journal=Resources for Feminist Research|postscript=; access provided by the University of Pittsburgh|id={{ProQuest|194882841}}}}</ref>
=== Film === In 2021, she was one of the participants in John Greyson's experimental short documentary film ''International Dawn Chorus Day''.<ref>Sarah Jae Leiber, [https://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwtv/article/INTERNATIONAL-DAWN-CHORUS-DAY-Premieres-April-29-20210329 "International Dawn Chorus Day Premieres April 29"]. ''Broadway World'', March 29, 2021.</ref>
===Academic career===
For seven years, Lord served as dean of the school of art at the California Institute of the Arts. From 1990 to 1995, she was the chairman of the art department at UC Irvine. From 1991 to 1996, she was the director of the UCI Gallery at that institution.<ref name="irvine"/> She currently teaches at the Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College.
===Gallery exhibitions at UCI===
From October 3 to November 7,{{clarify|date=October 2025}} "And 22 Million Very Tired and Very Angry People" was an installation by Carrie Mae Weems. In the winter quarter, January 7 to February 4,{{clarify|date=October 2025}} "Convergence: Eight Photographers" was organized by Deborah Willis, curator of the Schoenberg Center of Black American Art in New York. It showcased black artists' perspective.<ref name="latimes"/>
==Awards==
In 2008, she was named the Shirley Carter Burden Visiting Professor of Photography at Harvard University. In 2010, she received the Harvard Arts Medal.<ref name="Harvard"/>
===Fellowships===
Lord has received many fellowships. They include the New York State Council on the Arts, the Humanities Research Institute of the University of California, the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, the Norton Family Foundation, the Andy Warhol Foundation, the Creative Capital Foundation, the Durfee Foundation, the Rockefeller Center for Arts and Humanities, the California Community Foundation and Anonymous Was a Woman.<ref name="irvine"/>
===Panels===
At the Exquisite Acts & Everyday Rebellions: 2007 CalArts Feminist Art Symposium, Lord spoke on the panel "Strategies for Contemporary Feminism".<ref>{{cite web|title=Strategies for Contemporary Feminism - Catherine Lord|url=http://www.eastofborneo.org/archives/strategies-for-contemporary-feminism-catherine-lord|website=www.eastofborneo.org|date=31 August 2011 |publisher=East of Borneo|access-date=27 June 2014}}</ref>
==Further reading==
* ''The Summer of Her Baldness: A Cancer Improvisation'' (University of Texas Press, 2004) {{ISBN|978-0-292-70257-8}} * The conceptual translation ''Sa Calvitie, Son Colibri: Miss Translation'' (L’une Bevue) * ''Art and Queer Culture, 1885-2005'' (in collaboration with Richard Meyer) (Phaidon Press, 2013). {{ISBN|978-0-7148-4935-5}}
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