Rachel
K. Ward was creative director of Eispavillon (2003), an independent exhibition
in the Swiss Alps, re-presented at Art Unlimited in Basel by artist Olivier Mosset.
Ward was also creative director of Terminal
5 (2004), an independent exhibition at John F. Kennedy International Airport,
New York, which included new work by Vanessa Beecroft (VB 54), Dan Graham, Tom
Sachs and others, and a catalog sponsored by agnès
b. Terminal 5 was selected for Artforum's "Best of 2004"
and recognized by The New York Times, Architectural Record,
Vogue (France), among others. Ward has been invited as a guest curator
at Colette, Paris, a guest panelist on curating
for Tokion magazine and was associate curator
at Swiss Institute - Contemporary Art,
New York.
Ward
was born in Miami and received an MA in Art History from University of Florida,
with her thesis on Ed Ruscha published by the Museum
of Art of the XXI Century, Rome (MAXXI). She is currently completing a PhD
in Media at Europäische Universität für
Interdisziplinäre Studien (EGS) in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, where she studied
with, among others, Jean Baudrillard, Yves-Alain Bois, Hans Ulrich Obrist and
Agnes Varda.
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