Lara Bullock
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Lara Bullock is a contemporary art historian, writer, curator, and educator. Lara has taught courses at a variety of institutions including Southwestern College and the University of California, San Diego and has previously worked at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, the Vancouver Art Gallery, and the Helen and Morris Belkin Art Gallery. Lara currently serves as the Curator of the San Diego Art Prize. In addition, she has curated exhibitions including Fear No art: Civic Engagement Histories, Currencies at the San Diego Central Library Art Gallery (2020), A Step Away: Artists from the MFA Program at UC San Diego at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (2017), and Domestic Autonomy at Oceanside Museum of Art (2015), among others.
Her dissertation Moral Vandals: Street Artists in the Service of Change focused on contemporary art in a global context, though she also loves Medieval Beatus manuscripts and Yamato-e painting. Lara received her B.A. in Art History, Theory, and Criticism with Honours and Minor in English from the University of British Columbia, followed by her M.A. in Art History, Theory, and Criticism from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She earned her Ph.D. in Contemporary Art History, Theory, and Criticism from the University of California, San Diego. She loves digging into a good, scholarly art essay and reading books on psychology, while her cat Celestino naps beside her. She currently works at the City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture.
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