Mary Jane Jacob


Independent curator, Chicago. B.F.A., University of Florida; M.A., University of Michigan. Chief curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1980­p;86); chief curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1986­p;89). Exhibitions include retrospectives of Christian Boltanski (1988), Jannis Kounellis (1986), Gordon Matta-Clark (1985), and Magdalena Abakanowicz (1982); "Places with a Past: New Site-Specific Art in Charleston," Spoleto Festival USA (1991); "Culture in Action: New Public Art in Chicago" (1993); as well as other public art projects. Author of numerous essays for exhibition catalogues, books, and arts journals.