Art Historian Marie Shurkus has been involved in the contemporary art world as a curator, writer, art programmer, and educator for over 25 years. Her research interests include affect theory, feminism, photography, performance art, & media studies. She has delivered scholarly lectures at the Getty Research Institute, the Hammer Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Institute of Contemporary Art Portland, & at numerous conferences. She co-edited the celebrated catalogue It Happened At Pomona: Art at the Edge of Los Angeles 1969-1973. Her scholarship has been published in the anthology Telling Stories: Countering Narrative in Art, Theory and Film and the Journals Photographies and X-Tra Contemporary Art Quarterly. She has published catalogue essays addressing the work of Michael Asher, Eugenia Butler, Jack Goldstein, William Leavitt, Alan Ruppersberg, Aaron T. Stephan, & others.
Currently professor of art history and Department Chair of Academic Studies at MECA&D, Marie has also taught at Pomona College, the University of Arizona, & Concordia University, Montreal, where she earned her PhD, studying under Brian Massumi. Additionally, Marie has been a curator or museum educator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Hyde Part Art Center, & The School of the Art Institute, Chicago.