Chris Stiegler

Chris Stiegler is a writer, art historian, curator, and educator. Working across the academic system, within alternative spaces, and with various publics, Stiegler’s practice has a discursive and dialogical aim. Over the last decade this has taken shape as ad-hoc symposia and museum tours with Town Hall Meeting; exhibition design and public engagement with the Institute for American Art; and teaching, lecture series organization, and artworld field studies with Maine College of Art & Design’s M.F.A. in studio art program. Many of his projects have explored ideas of performance, queer cultural production, value systems, and — more recently — the tropes of masculine romance. His scholarship has been focused on historiography, criticism of the contemporary, and recent-century art history. Broadly, this work is supported by a devoted attention to American moviemaking, contemporary literature, queer zines, and travel. Stiegler’s projects have been presented throughout the United States. He holds twin bachelor’s degrees from the University of Delaware in art history and printmaking, and a master’s degree in modern art history and connoisseurship from Christie’s Education.