James Crump is an award-winning American film director, writer and
producer and acclaimed art historian and curator whose recent films
include Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert
Mapplethorpe which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival;
Troublemakers: The Story of Land Art which premiered at the New York
Film Festival with The Wall Street Journal declaring "takes its place
among the great art documentaries of the past half century"; and
Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion & Disco, winner of the Metropolis
Grand Jury Prize at the 2017 DOC NYC Film Festival.An acclaimed art
historian and curator, Crump is also the author or co-author of
numerous books and has published widely in the fields of modern and
contemporary art. His critical texts have appeared in ArtReview, Art
in America, Artforum and Archives of American Art Journal for the
Smithsonian Museum, among numerous others. With artists Thomas Struth,
Martha Rosler and Omer Fast among others, Crump presented at the
Museum of Modern Art's August Sander Project: 2017 Crump earned a
Master of Arts and Ph.D in history of art respectively at Indiana
University (1993) and University of New Mexico (1996). He has
collaborated with a host of museums and galleries, including
Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, the Grey Art
Gallery of NYU, Princeton University Art Museum and Huis Marseille,
Amsterdam. He has organized exhibitions or published books with James
Welling, Doug and Mike Starn, Nan Goldin, Ross Bleckner, Lynn Davis,
and the estates of Berenice Abbott, Robert Mapplethorpe, Carlo
Mollino, Willem de Kooning, Garry Winogrand, and Walker Evans.Crump
directed the feature-length documentary film Black White + Gray: A
Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe , which premiered in
North America at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival and in Europe at Art
Basel. It explores the influence curator Sam Wagstaff, photographer
Robert Mapplethorpe and musician/poet Patti Smith had on art in New
York City in the 1970s. It began airing on the Sundance Channel in
March 2008.
producer and acclaimed art historian and curator whose recent films
include Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert
Mapplethorpe which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival;
Troublemakers: The Story of Land Art which premiered at the New York
Film Festival with The Wall Street Journal declaring "takes its place
among the great art documentaries of the past half century"; and
Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion & Disco, winner of the Metropolis
Grand Jury Prize at the 2017 DOC NYC Film Festival.An acclaimed art
historian and curator, Crump is also the author or co-author of
numerous books and has published widely in the fields of modern and
contemporary art. His critical texts have appeared in ArtReview, Art
in America, Artforum and Archives of American Art Journal for the
Smithsonian Museum, among numerous others. With artists Thomas Struth,
Martha Rosler and Omer Fast among others, Crump presented at the
Museum of Modern Art's August Sander Project: 2017 Crump earned a
Master of Arts and Ph.D in history of art respectively at Indiana
University (1993) and University of New Mexico (1996). He has
collaborated with a host of museums and galleries, including
Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, the Grey Art
Gallery of NYU, Princeton University Art Museum and Huis Marseille,
Amsterdam. He has organized exhibitions or published books with James
Welling, Doug and Mike Starn, Nan Goldin, Ross Bleckner, Lynn Davis,
and the estates of Berenice Abbott, Robert Mapplethorpe, Carlo
Mollino, Willem de Kooning, Garry Winogrand, and Walker Evans.Crump
directed the feature-length documentary film Black White + Gray: A
Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe , which premiered in
North America at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival and in Europe at Art
Basel. It explores the influence curator Sam Wagstaff, photographer
Robert Mapplethorpe and musician/poet Patti Smith had on art in New
York City in the 1970s. It began airing on the Sundance Channel in
March 2008.
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