American curator and art historian.
Jane Panetta
is a
New York
?based curator and art historian. Panetta is currently an associate curator at the
Whitney Museum of American Art
.
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Career
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Curating
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Before working at the Whitney, Panetta spent five years in the Painting and Sculpture Department of the
Museum of Modern Art, New York
as a curatorial assistant, where she was involved with MoMA's 2007
Richard Serra
retrospective and the 2009 retrospective on the Belgian artist
James Ensor
.
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The Whitney Museum hired Panetta in 2010 as a Curatorial Researcher. She worked her way up to assistant curator followed by an appointment as associate curator in 2015.
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At the Whitney, she was part of the curatorial team that curated the 2015 show: “America Is Hard to See,” the museum's first collection show at its new home in the
Meatpacking District
.
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Also with the Whitney, Panetta organized “Fast Forward: Painting from the 1980s (2017)” and “Mirror Cells,” with Christopher Y. Lew, the co-curator of the 2017
Whitney Biennial
.
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She has also curated solo presentations by
Willa Nasatir
and
MacArthur Genius
awardee
Njideka Akunyili Crosby
.
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Panetta curated the
2019 Whitney Biennial
with
Rujeko Hockley
.
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In selecting the 75 artists for the show, Panetta and Hockley selected predominantly minority, female artists who live and work on the West or East Coast of the United States, among other commonalities.
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When asked about their selections towards younger artists of color, the curators explained that they found other common threads in the struggles among artists today including "a sense of urgent financial and professional struggle due to college debt, real-estate development, and gentrification."
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Writing and academia
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Panetta contributed to a survey book on
James Ensor
, published by MoMA in 2009 to accompany an exhibit at the museum.
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In the early 2010s, Panetta wrote frequently for publications
Art in America
and
Modern Painters
.
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Alongside her curatorial work, she is also an adjunct faculty member at
Parsons The New School for Design
.
She received a bachelor's degree in history from
Haverford College
and a master's degree in art history from
CUNY
,
Hunter College
. As of 2015, Panetta was working to complete her PhD, with a focus on
modern
and
contemporary sculpture
, at
The Graduate Center, CUNY
.
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Panetta is a member of
Madison Square Park
’s Public Art Consortium.
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