Jury Panel

Dan Cameron Senior Curator at Large New Museum of Contemporary Art

Dan Cameron is Senior Curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, a position he received in 1995. Cameron, based in New York since 1979, has organized such exhibitions as Extended Sensibilities (New Museum, 1982); What is Contemporary Art? (Rooseum, Malmo, 1989); The Savage Garden (Fundacio 'la Caixa,' Madrid, 1991); and the 8th International Istanbul Biennial, 2003. He has written extensively on contemporary art since 1981, including as contributor to Arts Magazine, Art & Auction, Artforum, and Flash Art. Museum catalogue texts by Cameron have been published by the Royal Academy of Arts, London; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Museum of Modern Art, Oxford; and many other institutions.

Kristen Hileman is the Assistant Curator at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. During 2004, she organized summer and fall rotations of modern and contemporary works from the museum’s permanent collection for the on-going program Gyroscope. Hileman was an adjunct professor at George Washington University during the academic year 2004-2005, teaching a graduate seminar in contemporary art. She has previously taught art theory and a course on art and politics at the Corcoran College of Art + Design. Before coming to the Hirshhorn, she served as the curator of the Arlington Arts Center, where she organized exhibitions of work by artists from the Mid-Atlantic region.

William A. Newman is a legendary Washington, DC artist who has taught at the Corcoran College of Art + Design for 33 years. Co-founder of the Corcoran's renowned Digital Arts Department, he teaches Digital Arts for Fine Art and Photography. The subject of a major retrospective at the Corcoran Gallery in 2002, he paints in oils, teaching the secret techniques and formulas of the masters to generations of students at the Corcoran. His next two solo shows will both open in October 2005 at David Adamson Gallery, Washington, DC, and Strand on Volta, Georgetown, DC. He is a member of the Advisory Council of Transformer, a Washington DC non-profit organization promoting emerging artists. www.williamanewman.com

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