ANN HOLCOMB
ann.holcomb@gmail.com / 646-221-2507 // New York, New York / Richwood, Ohio
EDUCATION
MFA Photography, San Francisco Art Institute
BA Art History, Wellesley College
Classics concentration, Hollins College
Apeiron Workshops (photography residency)
SELECTED EDITING & WRITING PROJECTS
ALTERNATIVE ART SPACES
Living As Form: Socially Engaged Art from 1991–2011, project website, ed. Nato Thompson (New York: Creative Time, 2012)
AA Bronson & Peter Hobbs: Queer Spirits, AA Bronson and Peter Hobbs (New York: Creative Time Books, 2011)
Waiting for Godot in New Orleans: A Field Guide, Paul Chan (New York: Creative Time Books, 2010)
A Guide to This World and Nearer Ones exhibition pamphlet, Mark Beasely (New York: Creative Time, 2009)
ARCHITECTS, ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS, ARTISTS & URBANISTS
Hybrid Factory/Hybrid City, ed. Nina Rappaport (Barcelona/New York: Actar, 2022)
"Deep Decoration as Structural Holism," Nina Rappaport, Technoscape: The Architecture of Engineers, 2010/2023, eds. Maristella Casciato and Pippo Ciorri (Rome: MAXXI, National Museum of 21st Century Art, 2022)
Vertical Urban Factory, ed. Nina Rappaport, 1st edition and paperback edition (Barcelona/New York: Actar, 2015/2020)
Eyes That Saw: Architecture After Las Vegas, eds. Stanislaus von Moos and Martino Stierli (Zürich: Verlag Scheidegger & Speiss, 2020)
The Design of Urban Manufacturing, eds. Nina Rappaport and Robert N. Lane (New York: Routledge, 2020)
Vertical Urban Factory exhibition, curator Nina Rappaport, The Skyscraper Museum, New York, 2011
Biographical essay on ODA Architecture founder and principal Eran Chen, 2016 [writer]
Terminal 5 at JFK, catalogue accompanying independent curatorial project (New York: Lukas & Sternberg, 2004)
EDUCATION
“Teachers and the Practice of Leadership: Enabling Change for Transformation and Social Justice,” The New Educator [peer reviewer for City College of New York, 2026]
What About Learning?, Deborah Saunt and Jane Wong (Yale School of Architecture, 2023)
Kent Bloomer: Nature as Ornament, eds. Sunil Bald and Gary Huafan He (Yale School of Architecture, 2021)
Towers in the City: Berlin Alexanderplatz, Hans Kolhoff, ed. Kyle Dugdale with Kirk Henderson (Yale School of Architecture, 2018)
Reassessing Rudolph, ed. Timothy M Rohan (Yale School of Architecture, 2017)
Common Wealth, ed. Ed Mitchell (Yale School of Architecture, 20176)
Converging Territories: Island Incubator, Marion Weiss and Michael A. Manfredi (Yale School of Architecture, 2016)
Exhibiting Architecture: A Paradox?, ed. Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen (Yale School of Architecture, 2015)
Analytic Models in Architecture, ed. Emmanuel Petit (Yale School of Architecture, 2015)
Knowing How in Downtown Las Vegas, eds. Amy Kessler and Amy Mielke (Yale School of Architecture, 2014)
Constructing the Ineffable: Contemporary Sacred Architecture, ed. Karla Britton (Yale School of Architecture, 2014)
The Yale Building Project: The First 40 Years, ed. Richard W. Hayes (Yale School of Architecture, 2007)
Constructs quarterly journal, eds. Nina Rappaport and Robert A.M. Stern (Yale School of Architecture, 2005–06)
ART ADVISORY
E-newsletters, Moeller Fine Art., New York, 2023
DESIGN STUDIOS
Notes for an Art School, ed. Mai Abu ElDahab (Cyprus: Manifesta 6 School Books, 2011) [O_R_G. Inc., New York]
Typorama: The Graphic Work of Philippe Apeloig, essays by Ellen Lupton and Alice Morgaine, ed. Tino Grass (London: Thames & Hudson, 2013), bilingual monograph accompanying eponymous exhibition at the Musée des arts décoratifs (Studio Philippe Apeloig, Paris) [wrote English project descriptions and exhibition texts based on Apeloig’s original concepts]
Winning logotype commission, Università Iuav di Venezia, Italy (Paris: Studio Philippe Apeloig, 2002) [wrote proposal based on Apeloig’s original concepts]
Interview with Philippe Apeloig in designboom magazine and article on his visual identity for the Louvre Abu Dhabi in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates’ daily newspaper Gulf Today (Studio Philippe Apeloig, Paris, 2014) [rewrote and refined texts by non-native English speakers]
GALLERIES
La Borne: 1940–1980, A Post War Movement of Ceramic Expression in France, ed. Hughes Magen (New York: Magen H. Gallery, 2013) [wrote English adaptation of essay in catalogue accompanying eponymous exhibition
Press releases, Silo, Lower Eastside, New York, 2004–07 [writer]
MUSEUMS
Marie Laurencin: Sapphic Paris and Robin F. Williams: We've Been Expecting You, exhibition wall panels and object labels (Columbus Museum of Art, 2024)
Tony Oursler, Optical Timeline, exhibition wall text and graphics (Hessel Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson , New York, 2016)
Intelligent Cities, Susan C. Piedmont-Palladino (Washington, D.C.: National Building Museum, 2011)
SCIENCE
The State of the Urban Forest in NYC, eds. Emily Maxwell, Michael L. Treglia, and Alaina Van Slooten (The Nature Conservancy, 2021)
MEMOIR
Measure of a Life: LeRoy E. Hoffberger, LeRoy E. Hoffberger (self-published, 2014)
Remembrance of realtor, political power broker, and philanthropist Zev Wolfson, Nechama Wolfson (family and friends distribution, 2014)
My New Orleans, Gone Away, Peter M. Wolf (New York: Delphinium Books, 2013)
GRANT WRITING
Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut, 2021–24
The Hispanic Society Museum & Library, New York, 2023
Museum of Motherhood, St. Petersburg, Florida, 2022
Diane Tuft, Antarctic Artists and Writers Program (awarded), National Science Foundation, New York, 2012
World Science Festival Foundation, New York, 2009–10
The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, 2007
Exit Art, New York, 2005
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, 200
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Senior Officer, Foundation & Government Relations, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2006-20
Managed portfolio of multi-sector funding prospects to support capital campaign and institutional goals; raised 5- to 7-figure gifts to support exhibitions, conservation, the library, education, community access programs, and the 2-volume Andy Warhol Film Catalogue Raisonné; served as liaison for international embassies and consulates.
Director of Archives, Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography, Cooper Union School of Art, New York, 2000-05
Managed day-to-day operations of postwar graphic design archive; co-organized exhibitions, publications, international design lecture series; directed full-and part-time staff, student interns; and supported the research and other work of Lubalin Fellows, visiting scholars, designers, and curators.
SKILLS
Editing Copy editing, line editing, proofreading, cold reading, proposal writing, research, visual layout
Styles American Psychological Association (APA), Associated Press (AP), Chicago Manual of Style (CMOS), Turabian, Public Library of Science (PLOS)
Technical Adobe Acrobat Pro DC, Excel, Photoshop, PowerPoint, Raisers Edge, Squarespace, Word