An Index of Selected Writings & Published Works

“Wall Text.”
What Makes a Great Exhibition?, ed. Paula Marincola. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Exhibition Initiative, 2006, pp. 154-167.

“Wall Text,” What Makes a Great Exhibition? (Paula Marincola, editor). Philadelphia: Pew Center for Arts and Heritage/Phildelphia Exhibitions Initiative, 2006.

INGRID SCHAFFNER Ingrid Schaffner is an American curator, art critic, writer, and educator, specializing in contemporary art. She is currently curator at The Chinati Foundation/La Fundación Chinati in Marfa, Texas, after serving as curator of the 57th Carnegie International (Ci18), which opened at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, in 2018. Known for the breadth […]

Ingrid Schaffner is a curator and writer, who has developed a highly detailed, research-based practice in the field of contemporary art.  Working for over fifteen years as an independent curator based in New York, she organized exhibitions, wrote scholarly essays, and criticism that coalesce around themes of archiving and collecting, photography, feminism, and alternative modernisms—especially […]

“Doing Nothing” The Big Nothing. Philadelphia: Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, 2004, pp. 17-33

“An Ecology of the Art World” 2003 Pew Fellowship in the Arts Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: University of the Arts, University of Pennsylvania, 2003, pp. 6-14.

“The Unphotographable—Notes on Photography and Dust” Art On Paper. ed. Gabriella Fanning and Faye Hirsch. New York: Fanning Publishing Company Inc., 2002, pp. 58-63

“Getting Small with Louise Fishman.”
Louise Fishman, ed. Helaine Posner. New York: Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College; Philadelphia: Institute for Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania; Delmonico Books/Prestel, 2016, pp. 184-199.

“Conversation with Joan Jonas.”
Joan Jonas: They Come to Us without a Word. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT List Visual Arts Center, New York, New York : Gregory R. Miller & Co., Ostfildern, Germany : Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2015, pp. 114-131.

“Slim Volume,”
Moyra Davey: Burn the Diaries [a supplement]. Philadelphia: Institute for Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania; Vienna, Austria: the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, 2014, pp. 7-20.