Reesa Greenberg

Art historian

Reesa Greenberg is a Canadian art historian who writes and teaches about exhibition histories, museums, and the internet. Her work focuses on national, gendered, and ethnic identities; the contemporary artworld and war; as well as the production of historical consciousness in current museum practices. Thinking About Exhibitions, published in 1996, which she co-edited with Bruce Ferguson and Sandy Nairne, remains a classic in the field. Greenberg’s essays and reviews have been published in Canadian Art, Parachute, RACAR, Intermédialités, Tate Papers, Gradiva, Kritische Berichte, Ethnologies, Jong Holland, De Witte Raaf, Novye Gazetta, and The Journal for Curatorial Studies as well as numerous anthologies. Greenberg has consulted on exhibitions and installations for the Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, the Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam, and the exhibition Mirroring Evil at the Jewish Museum, New York. She has been Associate Professor of Art History at Concordia University, Montreal; Adjunct Professor of Art History at Carleton University Ottawa and at York University, Toronto; and Visiting Professor at The California College of the Arts, San Francisco and Moscow State University for the Humanities.