Objects of Devotion and Desire: Medieval Relic to Contemporary Art

Curated by Professor Cynthia Hahn with the assistance of MA and MFA students from Hunter College and PhD students from The Graduate Center, Objects of Devotion and Desire included five Medieval reliquaries borrowed from The Metropolitan Museum of Art in dialogue with artworks by Joseph Beuys, Christian Boltanski, Noel Brennan, Olafur Eliasson, Melissa Hacker, Nate Larson, Eva and Franco Mattes, Jeffrey Mongrain, Gayil Nalls, Ishmael Randall Weeks, Stuart Sherman, Hiromi Takizawa, Hannah Wilke, Bryan Zanisnik, and examples of early photography.

For this project, I participated in all aspects of curatorial and logistical planning of the exhibition. I requested, secured and coordinated a significant loan for the exhibition from a major private collection, and I also collected and coordinated all images for the exhibition catalogue. Additionally, I contributed two essays to the catalogue; to read them, click here.

New York: Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, 2011

Edited by Cynthia Hahn. Text by Kimberly A. Alvarado, Shelley DeMaria, Danyel M. R. Ferrari, David Louis Fierman, Sydney Gilbert, Cynthia Hahn, Natalie Hegert, Kim Hoeckele, Anjuli J. Lebowitz, Amy Levin, Ashira Loike, Sophia Marisa Lucas, Ross McDonnell, Maggie A. Norville, Maeve O’Donnell-Morales, Joy Partridge, Valentina A. Spalten, Annie Wischmeyer, Sarah Young