MARIA ANTONIA RINALDI - Studio Art Centers International

MARIA ANTONIA RINALDI
SACI instructor since 1998
Contemporary Art Theory & Criticism
MA Graduate Seminar in Art History I & II
Museology
CURATORSHIP AND OTHER PROJECTS
2012-2014
Collaboration with Lo schermo dell’arte Film Festival
(www.schermodellarte.org).
2009 May
Curator of exhibition “Marco Mazzoni, Leonora Bisagno, Franco
Menicagli, Leone Contini Bonaccossi” at DOB Gallery,
Belgrade.
2008 May
Curator of Virgilio Sieni exhibition “Geografia dei Gesti” at the
Istituto di Cultura Italiano, Belgrade.
2004-2005
Curator of the exhibition “Gemine Muse” edition 2004 for the
Comune di Firenze at the Galleria del Costume in Palazzo Pitti.
Curator of the exhibition “Biennale dei Giovani artisti
dell’Europa e del Mediterraneo,” Naples 2005 for the visual
arts section of the Comune di Firenze.
2003-2005
Organizer of the project “Belvedere dell’Arte” curated by
Achille Bonito Oliva and Sergio Risaliti, Florence, Forte
Belvedere.
2001
Organized an exhibit about the Medici collections with Dr.
Cristina Acidini Luchinat and Dr. Annamaria Giusti for
Contemporanea Progetti, Florence and WONDERS, The
Memphis International Cultural Series.
Curator of the video exhibit “Schermaglie” produced by
Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Palazzo delle Papesse.
2000-2001
Prepared and curated a series of exhibitions with Matteo Chini
through the Archivio dei Giovani Artisti (from the City of
Florence) in the SACI Gallery.
2000
Museological consulting for Studio di Architettura Claudio
Nardi & Ass.
1998
Assistant organizer with Dr. Cristina Acidini Luchinat of an
exhibition by the Ministry of Artistic Heritage of Florence held
in France and Germany in winter/spring 1999.
1996 – 1998
Tourist guide in French and Spanish for the SIGMA
Cooperative.
1995 March – July
COMETT Scholarship from the European Union: cataloguing
architectural drawings from the Royal Academy of San Carlo, in
the Department of Prints and Drawings at the San Pio V Museum
in Valencia, Spain.
1993 Spring
Voluntary assistant at the Marino Marini Museum, project advisor:
Prof. Marradi, Political Science professor, University of Florence.
1988
Learned basic restoration techniques in the workshop of
Andrea Fedeli, Florence.
EDUCATION
2001
Postgraduate Specialization in Economy and Management of
Cultural Patrimonies at the University of Tor Vergata in Rome
(Fellowship recipient).
1999
Postgraduate Specialization in History of Art at the University
of Florence. Thesis on Andrea Scacciati and his flower
paintings for the Medici family.
1996
Degree in History of Architecture, University of Florence.
Thesis cum laude entitled “Mouseion: Sources and Buildings,
from the Classical Period to the Renaissance” (Advisors: Prof.
Gabriele Morolli and Prof. Cristina De Benedictis).
TEACHING AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2015-present
Director and Graduate Seminar instructor, MA in Art History
program, Studio Art Centers International, Florence.
2014-present
Instructor of Contemporary Art Theory and Criticism, Studio
Art Centers International, Florence.
2011-present
Instructor “Florentine Art & Culture: Museum and Library
Research and Documentation” at Studio Art Centers
International for Pratt Institute, School of Information &
Library Science.
2009-2011
Instructor of Medieval Art, Rutgers Florence Program.
2010 June-July
Instructor of Renaissance Art, Florence University of Art.
2008 January
Organizer and instructor of a Graduate Seminar in Museology
for curators from the Museum of Books and Manuscripts at the
Library of Alexandria (Egypt). Organized by U.N.E.S.C.O. and
Studio Art Centers International, with the collaboration of the
Soprintendenza of Florence.
2007 June
Instructor of a Seminar in Museology at the Library of
Alexandria (Egypt), organized by U.N.E.S.C.O.
2006 June
Instructor of Renaissance Art at Florence University of Art.
2006
Awarded a fellowship from Istituto di Cultura Italiano in
Belgrade to present two lectures at the School of Fine Art of
Belgrade for the Outside Project (www.outsideproject.org).
2002-2013
Instructor of Post-Baccalaureate Art History Graduate Seminar,
Studio Art Centers International, Florence.
2000-present
1998-present
February 1997
PUBLICATIONS
2013-present
Instructor of Medieval and Renaissance Art History, Sarah
Lawrence College – Florence Program.
Instructor of Museology at Studio Art Centers International,
Florence.
Delivered a lecture to the Postgraduate Specialization Course
in History of Art, University of Rome “La Sapienza,” during
Museology course held by Prof. Orietta Rossi Pinelli.
Contributor for the art magazine Exibart
(http://www.exibart.com/).
2011 March
Talking about West, in West-Kinkaleri, Publisher Centro per
l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci.
2011 January
Rispondendo a Qohelet, in Vanity F_Air. Dario Bartolini, Marco
Mazzoni, Josephine Wister Faure, exhibition catalog, Florence.
2008
Dispositivi: installazioni e performance nel lavoro di Kinkaleri
AA.VV. Kinkaleri 2001-2008. La scena esausta, Ubulibri,
2008, pp. 173-179.
2008
Translation of the book God and Money by Richard Fremantle
(Italian, Dio e Denaro, Leo S. Olschki).
2001
Exhibition reviews for the magazine Arte e Critica.
2000-2001
SACI catalogues Comparisons, Florence, 2000 and Events,
Florence 2001.
1998
Translation from English to Italian of a monograph on Masaccio by
Richard Fremantle, published by Octavo.
1999
Text contributor for the catalog Splendore dei Medici, Octavo,
Florence, 1999.
1994
Marino Marini Foundation: compilation of biographies of
contemporary architects for a book edited by Giovanna Uzzani,
Il Marmo. Laboratori e presenze artistiche nel territorio apuoversiliese dal 1920 al 1990, Siena, 1995.