JONATHAN DAVID KATZ
City College of San Francisco
Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual Studies Department
979 South Van Ness
San Francisco, CA 94110
415/239-3876
katzartfag@aol.com

Brief Biography:

Jonathan D. Katz is chair of the Department of Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Studies at City College of San Francisco, where he teaches courses in American art and culture. The first tenured faculty in gay and lesbian studies in the nation, Katz also founded and chairs the Harvey Milk Institute, the largest queer studies institute in the world. Katz holds a doctorate in art history and has published and spoken widely on queer contributions to American art and culture, especially of the Cold War Era. Most recently, he co-authored a book with Moira Roth called Difference/Indifference: Musings on Postmodernism, Marcel Duchamp and John Cage (G&B Arts International, 1998), an article for the April 1999 issue of GLQ called "John CageÕs Queer Silence," and another article in the book Performing the Body/Performing the Text called "Dismembership: Jasper Johns and the Body Politic". A long time queer political activist, was a co-founder of Queer Nation, San Francisco, and founded the Lesbian and Gay Caucus of the College Art Association, the professional organization of artists and art historians. He also served as Artistic Director of the National Queer Arts Festival in San Francisco and is on the Board of Directors of the San Francisco Queer Cultural Center.

Public Lecture Topics:

• "On Appropriation" Plop Goes the World : Conference on the 60's, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
• "Jasper Johns' Newest Work" San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
• "A Performative Silence" Birmingham University, Birmingham, England
• "Queer Silences: John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg and the Politics of Passivity" Courtauld Institute, London, Humboldt University, Berlin, GoldsmithÕs College, London.
• "Lovers and Divers: Interpictorial Dialog in Rauschenberg and Johns." Stedlijk Museum Amsterdam
• "Keith Haring and the Limits of Postmodernism" Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, Ft. Lauderdale, FL.1998
• "Strategies of Resistance in Cold War American Art" Yale University
• "Lovers and Divers: Interpictorial Dialog in Rauschenberg and Johns." Dartmouth College, Hannover NH, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT.
• "Keith Haring and the Limits of Postmodernism" San Francisco Museum of Modern Art "Gober and Stella: Commentary on the Collection" San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
• "Keith Haring: The Possibilities of a Political Postmodernism" City College of San Diego1997
• "Dismembership: Jasper Johns and the Body Politic" College Art Association Annual Meeting, New York and Unnatural Acts Symposium, University of California, Riverside
• "Queer Institutions/Queer Pedagogy" Schwules Museum, Berlin, 1996
• "Queer Beats" Symposium, organizer and lecturer, Harvey Milk Institute and San Francisco Art Institute

Publications:

• "Articulate Silence: The Early Work of Robert Rauschenberg", Kunstforum, Berlin, 1999 (forthcoming)
• "Re-viewing the Field: Queer Studies in Art History", Art History, 1999 (forthcoming)
• "John Cage's Queer Silence or How to Avoid Making Matters Worse", GLQ, Duke University Press, April, 1999; Reprinted in Here Comes Everybody: The Music Poetry and Art of John Cage, ed. David Bernstein, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999 (forthcoming)
• "Silent Politics and the Performativity of Nothingness," Making a Scene, ed. Henry McCullen, Birmingham University Press, 1999 (forthcoming)
• "Dismembership: Jasper Johns and the Body Politic" Performing the Body/Performing the Text, eds. Amelia Jones and Andrew Stephenson, New York: Routledge Press, 1999
• Difference/Indifference: Musings on Duchamp and Cage, coauthored with Moira Roth, New York: Gordon and Breach, 1998
• "Lovers and Divers: Picturing a Partnership in Rauschenberg and Johns", Frauen/Kunst/Wissenschaft, Berlin. June, 1998
• "Rauschenberg and the Guggenheim", Out Magazine, April,1998
• "Rauschenberg's Honeymoon", Art & Text, no.16 (May-July), 1998

Jonathan Katz has been listed in the Directory of California Thinkers since 31-Jan-2000.