KEVIN CONCANNON

Assistant Prof of Art, M.A. & Ph.D. in Art History from Virginia Commonwealth University 1998/2000; B. A. in Art History from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst 1983.

From 1991 through 2000 Concannon served as Adjunct Professor of Art History in the departments of Art History and Painting & Printmaking--and in the University Honors Program-- at Virginia Commonwealth University. Courses taught include Art and Critical Theory; Survey of Western Art; Negotiating Identities: Representing the Self and the Other in Modern and Postmodern Art; History of Twentieth-Century Performance Art; and others.

Recent professional presentations include "Typographical Era: Conceptual Art and Advertising in the 1960s" at the College Art Association Annual Conference 2001 in Chicago and "Yoko Ono's Cut Piece (1964): Bad Girl or Buddha," at the CAA's 1999 annual conference in Los Angeles. His talk, "Developing African-American Audiences at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts: An Overview," was presented as part of Navigating the Mainstream, Part II: The Second Annual Conference of the National Alliance of Friends of African and African-American Art in July of 2000.

Recent publications include "Nothing IsReal: Yoko Ono's Advertising Art," in Yes: Yoko Ono, exh. cat. (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. and the Japan Society of New York, 2000); and, with Reiko Tomii, "Chronology" and "Bibliography" in the same volume.