Photo credit: Dayvid LeMmon (2015)
Biography
Madeleine Brehm Boucher (b. 1987, Washington DC) is an artist, art historian, and technologist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. She is a founding member and Director of Direction at Shoestring Press, a cooperative fine art print shop and art space in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, where she has been a member artist since 2011, as well as curated exhibitions and taught classes in printmaking and book arts. From 2016 to 2018, she led Artsy’s Art Genome Project — a team of art historians, engineers, and data scientists who are building the world’s first and only qualitative, objective data structures to describe contemporary art for search and recommendations. She holds an M.A. in Chinese Art History from the University of Chicago and a B.A. from Columbia University.
Exhibitions, residencies, awards
| 2019 | Published By the Artist, International Print Center, New York | ||
| 2018 | Mudhouse Residency, Agios Ioannis, Crete | ||
| 2017 | Map and Territory: New Work by Madeleine Boucher, Robynne Heymans, Jacqui LeBoutillier, and Sarah Toth, Shoestring Studio, Brooklyn, New York | ||
| 2015 | Six Artists Etching, Shoestring Press, Brooklyn, New York | ||
| 2015 | Mudhouse Residency, Agios Ioannis, Crete | ||
| 2015 & 2014 | Brooklyn Arts Council Grantee | ||
| 2013 | University of Chicago Student Projects Fund, Chicago, IL | ||
| 2005 | New Work by Madeleine Boucher, Yellow Barn Gallery, Glen Echo, MD | ||
| 1999 | East Meets West, Artland Gallery, Hong Kong |
Curatorial experience
| 2018 - 2019 | Selection committee member: Athena Standards Residency, Athens, Greece | |
| 2017 | Curator: Too Late: The European Can(n)on is Here — New Work by Phil Rabovsky and Lane Sell, Shoestring Press, Brooklyn, New York | |
| 2015 | Curator: The Model and Her Artist: New Work by Phil Rabovsky and Lane Sell, Shoestring Press, Brooklyn, New York | |
| 2012 | Co-curator: Sweet Fuckups and Happy Accidents, Shoestring Press, Brooklyn, New York |
Publications
| Forthcoming | “Ancestors, Politicians and Patrons: Portraits of the Dead in 9th and 10th Century Dunhuang Mogao Caves.” Refiguring East Asian Religious Art, ed. Wu Hung and Paul Copp (Center for the Arts of East Asia, University of Chicago: forthcoming). | |
| 2017 | “Too Late: Interview with Phil Rabovsky and Lane Sell”, A Gathering of the Tribes, July 2017. | |
| 2014 | “Art or Craft?: Hannah Höch’s Collages Embraced the Conflict Between Art and Craft, Dada and Commercialism”, Artsy.net, published 10/14/14 | |
| 2013 | “Ancestors, Politicians and Patrons", Colloquiuum Magazine, June 2013. University of Chicago. | |
| 2009 | “Beyond Pop: Imagery and Appropriation in Chinese Contemporary Art”, Columbia East Asian Review, June 2009. |