Susanne Ghez
	Lives and works in Chicago. Co-curator Documenta11. Executive Director of the Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, one of the renowned and oldest exhibition hall for contemporary art in the USA.
	Education University of California, Berkeley, Californian, course study in art history with H. Chipp and H. W. Janson. Columbia University, New York, course study of history art with M. Schapiro. New York School of Interior Design, New York. Diploma. Bryant College of Business Administration, Providence, Rhode Island.
	Professional experience since 1974 Executive Director of the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago. 1973-74 Assistant Director, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago. 1960-62 Sent to Geneva as administrative assistant to help open Central European office for Texas Instruments. 1958-60 Assistant to the Vice President of Marketing and the Vice President for International Division, Texas Instruments, Attleboro, Massachusetts.
	Curatorial work (Selection) (Exhibitions organized for the Renaissance Society) 2000 Thomas Hirschhorn: World Airport. Pierre Huyghe: The Third Memory. Franz West: Pre-Semblance & The Everyday. Martin Kippenberger: The Happy End of Franz Kafka´s "Amerika". 1999 Judy Ledgerwood: Cool Days. Willie Doherty. Darren Almond. Helmut Jahn. Moshekwa Langa. 1998 Arturo Herrera. Shazia Sikander. Kerry James Marshall: Mementos. Raymond Pettibon. 1997 Kara Walker. Kathleen Schimert: Oedipus Rex. The Drowned Man. Giovanni Anselmo: Lungo il Sentiero Verso Oltremare. Cristina Iglesias. 1996 View - Julia Fish. Selected Paintings and Drawings 1985-1995. persona - Alex Bag, Vanessa Beecroft, Keith Cottingham, Lyle Ashton Harris, Thomas Allen Harris, Gabrielle Jennings, Sharon Lockhart, Joe Mama-Nitzberg, Daniel Marlos, Helen Mira, Catherine Opie, Anita Pace, Jean Rasenberger, Eric Saks, Collier Schorr, Tony Tasset und T. J. Wilcox. Heimo Zobernig. Ben Nicholson: Thinking the Unthinkable House. 1995 Luc Tuymans: Superstition. Diana Thater: China. Stan Douglas: Evening and Hors Champs. Rodney Graham: School of Velocity and Parsifal. Albert Oehlen.
	Exhibitions 1976-1994 (Selection) 1994 Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Travelling. 1993 Zoe Leonard. Jean Marc Bustamante. Lothar Baumgarten. 1992 Isa Genzken: Everybody needs at least one window. Miroslaw Balka: 36,6. 1991 Maria Nordman. 1990 Michael Asher. Thomas Struth: Photographies. Niele Toroni. Juan Munoz. 1989 On Kawara: Date Paintings 1966 -1988. With Vito Acconci, Richard Artschwager, Robert Barry, Vija Celmins, Julia Fish, Leon Golub, Jenny Holzer, Douglas Huebler, Joseph Kosuth, Robert Mangold, Robert Mapplethorpe, Allan MacCollum, Matt Mullican, Jim Nutt, Ed Paschke, Richard Prince, Christina Ramberg, Nancy Spero, Tony Tasset, Lawrence Weiner, H. C. Westermann, Terry Winters, Christopher Wool and Ray Yoshida. Hanne Darboven: Quartett >88<. 1989 Stephen Prina: Monochrome Paintings. 1988 Mike Kelley. Three Projects: Half a Man, From My Institution to Yours, Pay for your Pleasure. Günther Förg. 1987 CalArts: Skeptical Belief(s). Carl Affarian, Gary Bachman, Dennis Balk, Ericka Beckman, Cindy Bernard, Ashley Bickerton, Ross Bleckner, Barbara Bloom, Troy Brauntuch, Beth Brenner, David Cabrera, James Casebere, Ben Chase, David Chow, Dorit Cypis, Dana Duff, Tim Ebner, Kate Ericson und Mel Zeigler, Ken Feingold, Eric Fischl, John Franklin, Sharon Greytak, Fariba Hajamadi, Kim Ingraham, Jim Iserman, Larry Johnson, Corey Kaplan, Mike Kelley, Jeff Kessinger, Julia Kidd, Jonathan Lasker, John Miller, Sherry Millner, Matt Mullican, Andy Moses, Tony Oursler, Susan Öehl, Lari Pittman, Stephen Prina, Tom Radloff, David Salle, Jim Shaw, Susan Silas, Mark Stahl Mitchell Syrop, Linda Tadic, Rea Tajiri, Mary Ann Toman, James Welling, Christopher Williams, Linda Wissmath and B. Wurtz. Peter Fischli and David Weiss. 1986 New Sculpture. Robert Gober, Jeff Koons, Haim Steinbach. Victor Burgin: Office at Night. 1985 James Coleman: Selected Works. Robert Barry. 1983 Jeff Wall. Daniel Buren: Works in Situ. 1981 Dan Graham: Selected Works. Louise Bourgeois: Femme Maison. John Hedjuk: Masques. 1979 Hans Haacke: Recent Works. 1978 Lawrence Weiner. 1976 Robert Smithson: Mirror/Salt Pieces, Drawings. Editor of various publications about contemporary art in conjunction with the above-mentioned exhibitions. Various positions in art juries, lately for the Biennale Carnegie International, Pittsburgh (USA) 1999/2000.