Faculty Lasse B. Antonsen
Lasse B. Antonsen is Director of the University Art Gallery and teaches in the Art History and the Graduate departments. He has studied art history at Copenhagen University in Denmark and at Tufts University, where he received his MA with a thesis focusing on the Art of Picasso in the 1930s.
Antonsen is a former curator of the Danforth Museum of Art, where he curated exhibitions of the work of, among others, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Alberto Giacometti and Henri Michaux. He also commissioned the permanent installation, Mirror's Way, by Mary Miss.
Antonsen has taught art history at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and thesis writing and graduate seminars at the Rhode Island School of Design.
As Director of the University Art Gallery, Antonsen has curated, or presented, exhibitions of artists such as Ilya Kabakov, Paula Rego, Nancy Spero, Frank Stella, Mark Dion, Ana Mendieta and Pedro Cabrita Reis.
Antonsen has written articles and reviews for magazines such as Speculum, Sculpture, Art New England and Harvard Review. The December 2003 issue of the magazine, Sculpture, published a review by Antonsen of an exhibition by the Austrian sculptor, Franz West, at the Gagosian Gallery in New York.
Antonsen has participated and presented at many symposia and conferences, most recently (2004) at the NEMLA Conference in Pittsburgh. His talk was related to the New Bedford Cabinet of Natural History project, and was on the role of contemporary art installations and on the role of the natural history museum in contemporary Belgian and French comic books.
Antonsen has also given slide presentations on the work of the Danish artist, Per Kirkeby, at MIT in Cambridge, the St. Louis Art Museum, the Indianapolis Art Museum, the Contemporary Art Center in Santa Fe, and at the Arken Museum in Copenhagen. A text on Per Kirkeby's work in the 1960's was published in 1992 by Michael Werner Gallery, New York and Cologne, Germany.
Lasse B. Antonsen has served on the selection committee for Fellows at the Bunting Institute at Harvard University, on the Advisory Board for the Public Arts Project of the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and on other university, arts organization, educational, city, and university advisory boards and committees.
