VES 103: A Short History of Q
VES 145: Archive Fever

Photo: Kaucilya Brooke

Lord is professor of studio art and a core faculty member in the program in women’s studies at the University of California, Irvine. She received her MFA in 1983 from the Visual Studies Workshop, State University of New York at Buffalo. She is a writer, artist, and curator whose work addresses issues of cultural politics, including gardening, feminism, colonialism, and queer visualities. Before joining UCI, she was associate editor of Afterimage and dean of the School of Art at the California Institute of the Arts. She served as chair of the Department of Studio Art from 1990–95 and was director of the UCI Gallery from 1991–96. Her critical essays and fiction have been published in Afterimage, Art & Text, Artcoast, New Art Examiner, Whitewalls, Framework, Documents, X-Tra, Radical Teacher, GLQ, Trepan, Art Journal, and Art Paper. Her work is also included in the collections The Contest of Meaning: Critical Histories of Photography (ed. Richard Bolton, MIT Press, 1989); Illuminations: Women Writing on Photography from the 1850s to the Present (Liz Heron, Val Williams, Duke University Press, 1996); Reframings: New American Feminist Photographies (ed. Diane Neumaier, Temple University Press, 1996); The Passionate Camera: Photography and Bodies of Desire (Deborah Bright, Routledge, 1998); Hers 3: Brilliant New Fiction by Lesbian Writers (ed. Terry Wolverton, Robert Drake, Faber & Faber, 1999); Space, Site, Intervention: Situation Installation Art (ed. Erika Suderburg, University of Minnesota Press, 2000); and Decomposition: Post Disciplinary Performance (ed. Sue-Ellen Case, Philip Brett, Susan Leigh Foster, Indiana University Press, 2000). Her curated exhibitions include Pervert; Trash; Gender, fucked; and Memories of Overdevelopment: Philippine Diaspora in Contemporary Visual Art. Her work as a visual artist was included in the 1995 exhibition Longing and Belonging at Site Santa Fe. Her book The Summer of Her Baldness: A Cancer Improvisation (University of Texas Press, 2004) records the involuntary cyber performance occasioned by a diagnosis of breast cancer. She is currently working on a text/image book titled “The Effect of Tropical Light on White Men” and, with Richard Meyer, Art and Queer Culture, 1885 to the Present (Phaidon Press, forthcoming 2008).