Eva Forgacs

Adjunct Professor
Humanities and Sciences

Biography

Critic, essayist, curator, art historian. Teaching at Art Center since 1994. Recipient of EURIAS (European Centers of Advanced Study) at the Institute of Human Sciences, Vienna, 2012-2013; research grant at GWZO (Central European Research Center) at the University of Leipzig, May 2011. Main field of research and interest: Modernism and contemporary art and culture.

Classes

  • HHIS-110-02: Intro to Modernism
  • HHIS-110-03: Intro to Modernism

Memberships

  • CAA, SHERA, HGCEA, EAM, MSA, AICA
  • Advisory Board Member, EAM (European Avant-Garde and Modernism Network )
  • Vice President/President Elect of the Society of Historians of Rissian and Central European Art and Architecture (SHERA) (SHERA)
  • Member of the International Academic Committee, Bauhaus Institute, China Academy of Art, Leader of the Research project of the Bauhaus Institute
  • Member of the Editorial Board of the &, quot, Proceedings of the Art Museum of Estonia&, quot,

Awards

  • Research Grant of the Malevich Society, 2009
  • Faculty Enrichment Grant, Art Center College of Design, 2008
  • Research Grant, Collegium Budapest, Center for Advanced Study, Fall 2006
  • Fellow at CRCEES (Center for Russian and East European Studies) at Rutgers University, 1997-98
  • EURIAS Senior Fellow at the Institue of Human Sciences, Vienna, Sept. 2012-June 2013
  • Research Grant of the Institute of Human Sciences, Vienna, Summer 2014

Exhibitions

  • &, quot, Monuments of the Future: The Designs of El Lissitzky&, quot, Getty Research Institute, 1998,
  • Consultant for &, quot, Central European Avant-Garde&, quot, Los Angeles County Museum of Arts, 2002,
  • &, quot, Hungarian Art: A Century of Rebellion and Revival&, quot, Boca Raton Museum of Art, October 2016, 2016,
  • Curator of &, quot, Creating Freedom: From Post-Revolutionary to Post-Communist Art in Hungary&, quot, Sherman Gallery at Boston University, Boston, Nov. 3- Dec. 11, 2009 , 2009,
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