Curriculum Vitae
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENT
Assistant Professor (2023-Present)
Department of Science and Technology Studies. University of California, Davis.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. 2018, Visual Studies. University of California, Irvine.
Dissertation: Giving Form to Feedback: Craft and Technology circa 1968-1974.
Advisor: Cécile Whiting
Committee Members: Edward Dimendberg, Lucas Hilderbrand, Jamie Nesbit, and Jenni Sorkin
M.A. 2013, Visual Studies. University of California, Irvine.
Thesis: Handmade Lifestyles and Brighter Futures: California Craft circa. 1970.
Advisor: Cécile Whiting
B.A. 2009, Art History. University of California, Los Angeles.
Cum Laude, Departmental High Honors, College Honors
Minor: Women’s Studies
PUBLICATIONS
BOOK
In Process: Prototype Pastoral: Gender, Craft, and Technology, 1965-1980
PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES
“Space Suits and Gas Masks: Mary Ann Scherr and an Alternative View of Personal Technology,” The Journal of Design History. Accepted.
“Recurring Aesthetics, Emergent Traditions: Wendell Castle’s Continued Relevance to Corporate Culture,” The Journal of Modern Craft (Spring 2018):3-15.
COMMISSIONED ESSAYS IN MUSEUM AND EXHIBITION CATALOGS
“Between Knowledge and Comfort – The Crochet Coral Reef and Data Physicalization,” Crochet Coral Reef: Toxic Seas, (Baden-Baden, Germany: The Museum Frieder Burda): forthcoming.
“Of Space Suits and Gas Masks,” 45 Stories in Jewelry, Barbara Gifford ed. (New York: Museum of Art and Design, 2020):46-47.
“Pattern Consciousness: Counterculture Influenced Interior Design,” With Pleasure: Pattern and Decoration in American Art, 1972–1985, Anna Katz, ed. (New Haven and Los Angeles: Yale University Press and MOCA, 2019):214-223.
“Unwoven: Gender Binaries in Cloth and Computing,” Ahree Lee: Pattern Code, (Los Angeles: Women’s Center for Creative Work, 2019):3-6
“Surface Tensions: Craft and the Graphic Albums Collections” eds. David Evans Frantz, Kayleigh Perkov, and Lucas Hilderbrand. Exhibition catalogue. ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives. Los Angeles, CA. 2016):116-135.
ESSAYS IN MAGAZINES
“What Quilts Mean Now”, Art in America, October 14, 2021.
https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/quilts-mfa-boston-fabric-of-a-nation-1234606821/
“The Making of a (Counterculture) Jeweler”, Book Review of In Flux: American Jewelry and the Counterculture, eds. Susan Cummins, Damian Skinner, Cindi Strauss (Arnoldsche Art Publishers, 2021), Art Jewelry Forum, June 28, 2021.
https://artjewelryforum.org/reviews/the-making-of-a-counterculture-jeweler/
EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE
Winter 2019 - present. U.S. Reviews Editor, Journal of Modern Craft.
INVITED TALKS AND LECTURES
2021. “Crafting Alternatives to Contemporary Technology” October 19, 2021. Craft Think Tank. Center for Craft.
2020. "Ask the Curator" conversation with Professor Lisa Nakamura and curators Elissa Auther and Bobbye Tigerman. The Computer Pays Its Debt: Women, Textiles, and Technology, 1965-1985.
2017. “Counterculture Jewelry” May 16. 2017. School of Art and Design, San Diego State University. San Diego, CA.
CONFERENCES
2018. The Computer Pays Back Its Debt to Weaving: An Alternative History of Computer Aided Design. The College Art Association. Los Angeles, CA.
Chair: Digital Craft Session
2017. Recurring Aesthetics, Emergent Traditions: Wendell Castle’s Continued Relevance to Corporate Culture. Long Shadows: Tradition, Influence, and Persistence in Modern Craft. Yale Center for British Art. New Haven, CT.
2014. A Hobby House: Domesticity and Collage in the Graphic Albums Collection. The American Studies Association. Los Angeles, CA.
2012. A Confusion of Hands: Craft, Labor, and Subjectivity. Making Sense of “Making
Work” Getty Consortium Seminar Symposium. Getty Research Institute. Los Angeles, CA.
SHOWS CURATED
March 13 - June 13, 2020. The Computer Pays Its Debt: Women, Textiles, and Technology, 1960-1985. Center for Craft. Ashville, North Carolina.
April 2 - July 10, 2016. Co-Curator with Lucas Hilderbrand and David Evans Frantz. Cock, Paper, Scissors: An exhibition on Gay and Lesbian Scrapbook and Collage Practice. ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives, Los Angeles, CA. Exhibition traveled as Cut-Ups: Queer Collage Practices. The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art. New York, NY, October 14 - December 18, 2016.
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
2022 - 2023. Getty/ACLS Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Art.
2019 - 2020. Curatorial Fellowship. Center for Craft. Asheville, NC.
2018. Chancellor’s Club Dissertation Fellowship. University of California, Irvine.
2018. Graduate Student Fellowship. Newkirk Center for Science and Society, University of California, Irvine.
2017. Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship. University of California, Irvine.
2016. William H. Truettner Predoctoral Fellowship. The Smithsonian American Art Museum. Washington D.C.
2016. Craft Research Fund Grant, Center for Craft. Asheville, NC.
2016. CCL/Mellon Foundation Seminar in Curatorial Practice. New York, NY.
2014. Art History Teaching Assistant Award. University of California, Irvine.
2014. UC President's Public Partnerships in the Humanities Grant. University of California, Irvine.
2012-2013. UC California Studies Award Graduate Student Travel Grant. University of California, Irvine.
2012. Getty Research Institute Consortium Seminar Participant. Los Angeles, CA.
2009. Dean’s Prize for Outstanding Research. University of California, Los Angeles.
MUSEUM EXPERIENCE
September 2016 - July 2017. Graduate Intern of Digital Art History and Web and New Media Development. Getty Research Institute. Los Angeles, CA.
Summer 2015. Graduate Intern for Digital Projects. Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA). National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C.
October 2014 - June 2015. Graduate Intern of Contemporary Decorative Arts. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Boston, MA.
OTHER TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2021. Honors Examiner in Arts and Crafts as Avant-Garde Labor. Swarthmore College. Swarthmore, PA.
Teaching Assistant
Art History 40A: Ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome (University of California, Irvine): Fall 2012, Fall 2013; Art History 40B: Europe: Medieval and Renaissance (University of California, Irvine): Winter 2013, Winter 2014, Winter 2015; Art History 40C: Modern Art Europe and America (University of California, Irvine): Spring 2013, Spring 2014.
Assistant Professor (2023-Present)
Department of Science and Technology Studies. University of California, Davis.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. 2018, Visual Studies. University of California, Irvine.
Dissertation: Giving Form to Feedback: Craft and Technology circa 1968-1974.
Advisor: Cécile Whiting
Committee Members: Edward Dimendberg, Lucas Hilderbrand, Jamie Nesbit, and Jenni Sorkin
M.A. 2013, Visual Studies. University of California, Irvine.
Thesis: Handmade Lifestyles and Brighter Futures: California Craft circa. 1970.
Advisor: Cécile Whiting
B.A. 2009, Art History. University of California, Los Angeles.
Cum Laude, Departmental High Honors, College Honors
Minor: Women’s Studies
PUBLICATIONS
BOOK
In Process: Prototype Pastoral: Gender, Craft, and Technology, 1965-1980
PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES
“Space Suits and Gas Masks: Mary Ann Scherr and an Alternative View of Personal Technology,” The Journal of Design History. Accepted.
“Recurring Aesthetics, Emergent Traditions: Wendell Castle’s Continued Relevance to Corporate Culture,” The Journal of Modern Craft (Spring 2018):3-15.
COMMISSIONED ESSAYS IN MUSEUM AND EXHIBITION CATALOGS
“Between Knowledge and Comfort – The Crochet Coral Reef and Data Physicalization,” Crochet Coral Reef: Toxic Seas, (Baden-Baden, Germany: The Museum Frieder Burda): forthcoming.
“Of Space Suits and Gas Masks,” 45 Stories in Jewelry, Barbara Gifford ed. (New York: Museum of Art and Design, 2020):46-47.
“Pattern Consciousness: Counterculture Influenced Interior Design,” With Pleasure: Pattern and Decoration in American Art, 1972–1985, Anna Katz, ed. (New Haven and Los Angeles: Yale University Press and MOCA, 2019):214-223.
“Unwoven: Gender Binaries in Cloth and Computing,” Ahree Lee: Pattern Code, (Los Angeles: Women’s Center for Creative Work, 2019):3-6
“Surface Tensions: Craft and the Graphic Albums Collections” eds. David Evans Frantz, Kayleigh Perkov, and Lucas Hilderbrand. Exhibition catalogue. ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives. Los Angeles, CA. 2016):116-135.
ESSAYS IN MAGAZINES
“What Quilts Mean Now”, Art in America, October 14, 2021.
https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/quilts-mfa-boston-fabric-of-a-nation-1234606821/
“The Making of a (Counterculture) Jeweler”, Book Review of In Flux: American Jewelry and the Counterculture, eds. Susan Cummins, Damian Skinner, Cindi Strauss (Arnoldsche Art Publishers, 2021), Art Jewelry Forum, June 28, 2021.
https://artjewelryforum.org/reviews/the-making-of-a-counterculture-jeweler/
EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE
Winter 2019 - present. U.S. Reviews Editor, Journal of Modern Craft.
INVITED TALKS AND LECTURES
2021. “Crafting Alternatives to Contemporary Technology” October 19, 2021. Craft Think Tank. Center for Craft.
2020. "Ask the Curator" conversation with Professor Lisa Nakamura and curators Elissa Auther and Bobbye Tigerman. The Computer Pays Its Debt: Women, Textiles, and Technology, 1965-1985.
2017. “Counterculture Jewelry” May 16. 2017. School of Art and Design, San Diego State University. San Diego, CA.
CONFERENCES
2018. The Computer Pays Back Its Debt to Weaving: An Alternative History of Computer Aided Design. The College Art Association. Los Angeles, CA.
Chair: Digital Craft Session
2017. Recurring Aesthetics, Emergent Traditions: Wendell Castle’s Continued Relevance to Corporate Culture. Long Shadows: Tradition, Influence, and Persistence in Modern Craft. Yale Center for British Art. New Haven, CT.
2014. A Hobby House: Domesticity and Collage in the Graphic Albums Collection. The American Studies Association. Los Angeles, CA.
2012. A Confusion of Hands: Craft, Labor, and Subjectivity. Making Sense of “Making
Work” Getty Consortium Seminar Symposium. Getty Research Institute. Los Angeles, CA.
SHOWS CURATED
March 13 - June 13, 2020. The Computer Pays Its Debt: Women, Textiles, and Technology, 1960-1985. Center for Craft. Ashville, North Carolina.
April 2 - July 10, 2016. Co-Curator with Lucas Hilderbrand and David Evans Frantz. Cock, Paper, Scissors: An exhibition on Gay and Lesbian Scrapbook and Collage Practice. ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives, Los Angeles, CA. Exhibition traveled as Cut-Ups: Queer Collage Practices. The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art. New York, NY, October 14 - December 18, 2016.
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
2022 - 2023. Getty/ACLS Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Art.
2019 - 2020. Curatorial Fellowship. Center for Craft. Asheville, NC.
2018. Chancellor’s Club Dissertation Fellowship. University of California, Irvine.
2018. Graduate Student Fellowship. Newkirk Center for Science and Society, University of California, Irvine.
2017. Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship. University of California, Irvine.
2016. William H. Truettner Predoctoral Fellowship. The Smithsonian American Art Museum. Washington D.C.
2016. Craft Research Fund Grant, Center for Craft. Asheville, NC.
2016. CCL/Mellon Foundation Seminar in Curatorial Practice. New York, NY.
2014. Art History Teaching Assistant Award. University of California, Irvine.
2014. UC President's Public Partnerships in the Humanities Grant. University of California, Irvine.
2012-2013. UC California Studies Award Graduate Student Travel Grant. University of California, Irvine.
2012. Getty Research Institute Consortium Seminar Participant. Los Angeles, CA.
2009. Dean’s Prize for Outstanding Research. University of California, Los Angeles.
MUSEUM EXPERIENCE
September 2016 - July 2017. Graduate Intern of Digital Art History and Web and New Media Development. Getty Research Institute. Los Angeles, CA.
Summer 2015. Graduate Intern for Digital Projects. Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA). National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C.
October 2014 - June 2015. Graduate Intern of Contemporary Decorative Arts. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Boston, MA.
OTHER TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2021. Honors Examiner in Arts and Crafts as Avant-Garde Labor. Swarthmore College. Swarthmore, PA.
Teaching Assistant
Art History 40A: Ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome (University of California, Irvine): Fall 2012, Fall 2013; Art History 40B: Europe: Medieval and Renaissance (University of California, Irvine): Winter 2013, Winter 2014, Winter 2015; Art History 40C: Modern Art Europe and America (University of California, Irvine): Spring 2013, Spring 2014.
© Kayleigh Perkov, 2021. All images belong to myself or have been taken from Wikimedia Commons under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
