Jane Farver


Jane Farver was a curator and director in the field of international contemporary art. Farver was a director at the Lehman College Art Gallery, the Tomoko Liguori Gallery, the chief curator of the Queens Museum of Art from 1992-1999, and the head of the MIT List Visual Arts Center from 1999 to 2011. She also was a curator at The Alternative Museum of New York and a director of Spaces in Cleveland, Ohio. She was also a guest co-curator of the 2000 Whitney Biennial and an Artistic Director of the 2011 Incheon Women Artists' Biennale in Incheon, South Korea. She died of a heart attack in 2015. Her partner John L. Moore is also a noted painter and curator.
One of Farver's more well regarded works was the 1999 Queens Museum show, which covered conceptualist art.

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