Carol Solomon
Visiting Associate Professor of Art History, Independent College Programs
Biography
Education
B.A., LaSalle University
M.A. and Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh
At Haverford since the fall of 2008, art historian and curator Carol Solomon is a specialist in nineteenth-century French art, twentieth-century art, and contemporary art and visual culture of the Arab world. She has taught at Amherst College, Smith College, The University of Massachusetts (Amherst), Mount Holyoke College, McGill University, and the University of Pittsburgh. Prior to her appointment at Haverford, she was curator of European art at the Mead Art Museum, Amherst College. In 2009, working as curator in collaboration with the French/Algerian artist Zoulikha Bouabdellah, Dr. Solomon was among the first recipients of the Abraaj Capital Art Prize, a competition established to give international exposure to artists from the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia. In the spring of 2010, she co-curated and co-authored with Janet Yoon, Haverford 2010, the exhibition Mapping Identity, which was on view at the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery. Other publications and exhibitions include The Third Space: Cultural Identity Today (2008), A Room with a View: The Photography of Abelardo Morell (2007), The Empress Josephine: Art and Royal Identity (2005), The Pain of War (2004), The Myth and Madness of Ophelia (2001), and The Hanged Man: Cézanne and the Art of the Print (1999).
Dr. Solomon is a 2012-13 recipient of a Middle East and North Africa Regional Research Program Fulbright Award for research on Contemporary Art and Identity in Morocco and Tunisia.
My Top Link: Fulbright
My Links
- Mapping Identity
an exhibition of works by 11 international artists co-curated by Visiting Associate Professor Carol Solomon and Haverford senior Janet Yoon '10 - Abraaj Prize
Museum of Arts and Design, New York, Fall 2009 - Abraaj Prize
International Art Prize, 2009, Dubai, United Arab Emirates - ICPRH235 The Post-Impressionists
ICPRH235 The Post-Impressionists Course Outline - ICPRH237 Art and Cultural Identity
ICPRH237 Art and Cultural Identity Course Outline - ICPRH236 Art, Politics, and Society
ICPRH236 Art, Politics, and Society in 19th-Century Europe Course Outline - ICPRH231 Paris in the 19th-Century: The Psychopathology of the Modern City
ICPRH231 Paris in the 19th Century: The Psychopathology of the Modern City Course Outline - Abraaj Art Prize
Courses: Fall 2012, Haverford
Independent College Programs
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Peace, Justice, and Human Rights
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Middle East and Islamic Studies
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