Jordan Troeller (*1985 in Santa Clara, CA, USA) holds a fixed-term lectureship in modern and contemporary art history and theory at the University of Graz in Austria, where her research focuses on the intersection between art and politics, particularly the politics involved in writing art’s histories. She is currently completing the monograph “Sculpture’s Progeny: Ruth Asawa and the Maternal Work of Art,” which is the first critical study devoted to several self-defined “artist-mothers” in postwar San Francisco. The book emerged out of her ongoing inquiry into how gender and sexuality shapes the visibility of artistic labor—a topic explored in her recent article “Lucia Moholy’s Idle Hands” (OCTOBER 172, Summer 2020). 

Dr. Troeller is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, and Harvard University, and has held positions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the MIT List Visual Arts Center, and the Goethe-Institut Boston. Her scholarship can be found in numerous publications, including Art Journal, The Burlington Magazine, Hyperallergic, The History of Photography, and Women’s Art Journal, as well as the exhibition catalogue Object Lessons: The Bauhaus and Harvard (2021).

Jordan Troeller (*1985 in Santa Clara, CA, USA) holds a fixed-term lectureship in modern and contemporary art history and theory at the University of Graz in Austria, where her research focuses on the intersection between art and politics, particularly the politics involved in writing art’s histories. She is currently completing the monograph “Sculpture’s Progeny: Ruth Asawa and the Maternal Work of Art,” which is the first critical study devoted to several self-defined “artist-mothers” in postwar San Francisco. The book emerged out of her ongoing inquiry into how gender and sexuality shapes the visibility of artistic labor—a topic explored in her recent article “Lucia Moholy’s Idle Hands” (OCTOBER 172, Summer 2020). 

Dr. Troeller is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, and Harvard University, and has held positions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the MIT List Visual Arts Center, and the Goethe-Institut Boston. Her scholarship can be found in numerous publications, including Art Journal, The Burlington Magazine, Hyperallergic, The History of Photography, and Women’s Art Journal, as well as the exhibition catalogue Object Lessons: The Bauhaus and Harvard (2021).