EDUCATION
Certificate in Museum Management, 1997. J. Paul Getty Leadership, Museum Management Institute. University of California, Berkeley
M.A. 1980 History of Art, Indiana University, Bloomington (1977-1980). 19th - and 20th -century European and American art. Thesis: Robert S. Duncanson (1821-1872). Professor Louis Hawes, advisor.
B.A. 1977, Indiana University, Bloomington. Major in Art History.
PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
The Henry and Lois Foster Chair in Contemporary Art, Distinguished Curator-in-Residence, Emerson College, Boston (9/08-present).
Chief Curator, Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin (6/05-8/08).
The Henry and Lois Foster Director, The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, MA (9/98-5/05).
Director, Washington University Gallery of Art, St. Louis (4/89-7/98).
Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Art History, Washington University, St. Louis (1995-8).
Curator, Washington University Gallery of Art, St. Louis (10/82-4/89).
Curator, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Indiana (10/79-10/82).
AWARDS, APPOINTMENTS, AND DISTINCTIONS
Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD), Research Visit Grant to Germany, May–August 2011.
Zero Foundation, Düsseldorf, Research Fellow, May-August 2010
Gerda Henkel Stiftung, Düsseldorf, Research Scholarship Grant, May-August 2010
Merit Award, HOW Magazine Design Awards, 2010 for Act / React: Interactive Installation Art (Milwaukee Art Museum, 2008). Curated by George Fifield. Organized by Joseph Ketner.
Best Gallery Show of 2008, Boston Globe, for Erwin Redl FADE: A Light Installation (Emerson College, Boston, 2008).
Etant donnés, Curatorial Research Grant, AFFA, Paris (2007).
General Services Administration, Arts in Architecture Peer Reviewer, (2006- ).
Luce Foundation, Luce Visiting Scholars Fellowships, Brandeis University (2003-2006).
Best Monographic Museum Show in 2002, International Association of Art Critics, Boston Chapter, for Roxy Paine: Second Nature (The Rose Art Museum, 2002).
First Prize, Exhibition Catalogue, 1997, American Association of Museums for Art & Science: Investigating Matter, Photographs by Catherine Wagner (Washington University Gallery of Art).
Second Prize, Museum Book, 1995, American Association of Museums for A Gallery of Modern Art at Washington University.
Outstanding Academic Book for 1994, Choice magazine (American Library Association) for The Emergence of the African-American Artist: Robert S. Duncanson, 1821-1872.
American Association of Museums, Accreditation Visiting Committee Member (1994-present).
EXHIBITIONS AND ART PROJECTS CURATED OR ORGANIZED
Alexander Dorner: Documentary film on director of the Landesmuseum, Hannover, who advocated modern art during the National Socialist period and was forced into exile. Joseph Ketner, Emerson College, and Ines Katenhusen, Universität Hannover, executive producers, Peter Frumkin, director. Forthcoming, 2013.
Jackson Pollock’s Mural in American Art (2014-15). Organize international tour for the University of Iowa Art Museum, traveling to four venues in Europe and Asia, and one in the US. Curator, David Anfam.
Zone Zero. (2013-14). Internationally touring exhibition organized by the Zero Foundation, Düsseldorf. Joseph Ketner, international curatorial consultant.
Image Machine: Andy Warhol and Photography (2012-2013). The Cincinnati Center of Contemporary Art; Kunsthalle Wien; The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University.
TV Guide to Experimental Television (October 3-December 2, 2011, March 2-30, 2012), Huret and Spector Gallery, Emerson College, Boston.
Arcade Building LED Wall: with Jim Campbell, John Craig Freeman, Brian Knep, and Erwin Redl (October 2011-May 2012). 3-story LED Wall, Arcade Building, Washington St. Emerson College, Boston.
Aldo Tambellini: Black Zero (October 1- November 1, 2011). Chelsea Museum, New York. Curated multimedia installation.
Otto Piene: Proliferation of the Sun (Die Sonne kommt Näher), 1967. June 18, 2011, Moderna Museet, Stokholm; September 18, 2010, Zero Foundation, Düsseldorf. Assist artist in recreation of hand-painted slide projection performance.
Otto Piene, Sky Art Event, May 7, 2011. M.I.T. 150th Anniversary Celebration, organized by M.I.T. Museum. On collaborative team to produce a Sky Art Event.
Robert S. Duncanson: “The Spiritual Striving of the Freedmen’s Sons” (May 1 – October 30, 2011). Thomas Cole Historic House, Catskill, New York.
Aldo Tambellini: The Black Films. (February 18 – April 22, 2011) Emerson College, Boston.
Bruce Conner: Apparitions. (October 8 – November 19, 2010). Emerson College, Boston.
Santiago Cucullu: Pleathers (March 19 – May 17, 2010). Emerson College, Boston.
Andy Warhol: The Last Decade (2009-11). Milwaukee Art Museum; the Museum of Modern Art, Fort Worth, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Baltimore Museum of Art.
William Kentridge and Robin Rhode: Two Views of South Africa. (2009). Emerson College, Boston.
Erwin Redl FADE: A Light Installation (2008). Emerson College, Boston.
Santiago Cucullu MF Ziggurat: On-Site (2008-2009). Milwaukee Art Museum.
Sensory Overload: Light, Motion, and Sound in Art Since 1945 (2008 –2009). Milwaukee Art Museum.
Elusive Signs: Bruce Nauman Works with Light (2006-8). Milwaukee Art Museum. Indianapolis Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami; Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington; Musee d'art contemporain, Montreal; Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art.
Yun-fei Ji: The Empty Cities (2004). The Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis; Pierogi 2000, Brooklyn, New York; Curated expanded exhibit for The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University.
Co-Existence: Contemporary Cultural Production in South Africa (2003). The Rose Art Museum; South Africa National Gallery, Cape Town; Co-curated by Pamela Allara, Brandeis University, Marilyn Martin, Director, Iziko Museums of South Africa.
Roxy Paine: Second Nature (2002-03). The Rose Art Museum; Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston; SITE Santa Fe, NM; De Pont Foundation of Contemporary Art, Tilburg, The Netherlands. Co-curated with Lynn Herbert, CAMH.
Stephen Antonakos: Time Boxes 2000, with Richard Artschwager, Daniel Buren, Sol LeWitt, and Robert Ryman. The Rose Art Museum (2000).
Bruce Pearson: A New Visual Language (1999). The Rose Art Museum; Gallery of Art, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS.
Art & Science: Investigating Matter, Photographs by Catherine Wagner (1997). Washington University Gallery of Art; International Center of Photography, New York; University Art Museum, California State, Long Beach. Curated by Cornelia Homburg.
Lifting the Veil: Robert S. Duncanson (1995-6). Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati; Washington University Gallery of Art; Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX; Clark Atlanta University Art Gallery.
Bruce Nauman: Light Works. Washington University Gallery of Art (1993).
The Crossing of Borders and the Creation of Worlds: The Art of Howard Jones (1993). Washington University Gallery of Art. Catalogue with essay by Professor Udo Kultermann.
Carl F. Wimar (1828-1862): Chronicler of the Missouri River Frontier (1991). Washington University Gallery of Art; Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth.
Architectural Ceramics: Eight Concepts (1985). Washington University Gallery of Art; American Craft Museum, New York. Curated by Michael Rubin.
Jean Dubuffet: Forty Years of His Art (1984-85). David and Alfred Smart Gallery, University of Chicago; Washington University Gallery of Art.
The Beautiful, the Sublime, and the Picturesque: British Influences on American Landscape Painting (1984). Washington University Gallery of Art.
Photographs by Photorealists (1982). Fort Wayne Museum of Art; Cleveland Museum of Art.
Hartigan: Thirty Years of Painting, 1950-1980 (1981). Fort Wayne Museum of Art; Georgia Museum of Art, Athens; and the Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina.
PUBLICATIONS: Books, Catalogs, Essays and Articles
Zero and Postwar European Art. In progress.
Zero Compendium. Zero Foundation, Düsseldorf, Germany. International contributor. Forthcoming.
Ketner II, Joseph D. Image Machine: Andy Warhol and Photography. Waltham, MA: The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, forthcoming 2012.
Andy Warhol. Focus Series. London: Phaidon Press Limited, 2011.
“Struggles, many and great,” Antiques Magazine (November 2011).
“Electromedia,” in Aldo Tambellini: Black Zero. Exhibition catalogue. Chelsea Museum. New York: The Boris Lurie Foundation, 2011, pp. 35-47.
Robert S. Duncanson: “The Spiritual Striving of the Freedmen’s Sons.” New York: Thomas Cole Historic House, 2011.
Mack, Heinz. Mackazine II, with texts by Dieter Honisch and Joseph D. Ketner II. New York: Sperone Westwater, 2011.
Ketner II, Joseph D. "Otto Piene: Sky and Beyond," Art New England, 31, 3 (April/May 2010), pp. 7-9.
Andy Warhol: The Last Decade. With essays by Bruno Bischofberger, Keith Haring, Keith Hartley, Julian Schnabel and Gregory Volk. Munich, London, New York: Prestel Verlag, 2009.
Elusive Signs: Bruce Nauman Works with: Light. Additional essays by Janet Kraynak and Gregory Volk. Milwaukee, WI: Milwaukee Art Museum, 2006.
Roxy Paine: Second Nature. Houston: Museum of Contemporary Art and The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, 2002. Additional essays by Gregory Volk and Lynn Herbert.
A Defining Generation: Then and Now, 1961-2001. Additional essay by Sam Hunter. Waltham, MA: The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, 2001.
Helmut and Inge Krumbach and Joseph D. Ketner. Der Siegburger Indianermaler Carl Wimar (1828-1862). Siegburg, Germany: Rheinlandia Verlag, 2000.
A Gallery of Modern Art at Washington University in St. Louis. St. Louis: Washington University Gallery of Art, 1994.
The Emergence of the African-American Artist: Robert S. Duncanson, 1821-1872. Columbia, Missouri: The University of Missouri Press, 1993.
Rick Stewart, Joseph D. Ketner, and Angela Miller. Carl F. Wimar: Chronicler of the Missouri River Frontier. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum in association with Harry N. Abram s, Inc., 1991.
Joseph D. Ketner and Michael J. Tammenga. The Beautiful, The Sublime, and The Picturesque: British Influences on American Landscape Painting. St. Louis: Washington University Gallery of Art, 1984.
"Robert S. Duncanson (1821-1972): The Late Literary Landscape Paintings," The American Art Journal XV, no. 1 (Winter 1983): 35-47.
“The Continuing Search of Grace Hartigan." Artnews 80, no. 2 (February 1981): 128-129.
PUBLIC LECTURES AND CONFERENCES
Otto Piene, Group Zero, and the Question of Painting in postwar European Art, November 17, 2011. The List Center for the Visual Arts, MIT.
TV in Postwar German Art (April 28, 2011). Goethe Institut, Boston. Delivered paper as part of symposium, RECORD>AGAIN! 40 Years of Video Art in Germany, Part 2, with Judith Barry, Ute Meta Bauer, and Gregory Williams.
What is Contemporary Art? Harvard Medical School, 3/30/11.
Jackson Pollock’s Mural on its Grand Tour (April 1, 2011). University of Iowa Museum of Art, Collector’s Circle lecture.
From the Avant-garde to Pop Culture: Otto Piene, Aldo Tambellini, and Andy Warhol’s Multi-Media Installations. Leopold Hoesch Museum, Düren, Deutschland, 7/21/10; International Kepes Society, Pecs, Hungary, 7/30/10.
Who is Andy Warhol? (2009-10) Milwaukee Art Museum; Museum of Modern Art, Fort Worth; Brooklyn Museum of Art; Collegiate School, New York; Baltimore Museum of Art.
Zero: Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration. Symposium at Milwaukee Art Museum, 2008. Organized and moderated symposium on German Art group, Zero, with Heinz Mack, Otto Piene, and Udo Kultermann.
Visiting Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholars Chair, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, (2007).
Europe after the Rain: Francis Bacon and Art in Europe after WWII, Milwaukee Art Museum, (2007).
Hunger for Images: Painting Now. Symposium at Milwaukee Art Museum, (2007). Moderated panel with Michelle Grabner, Brad Kahlhammer, Jose Lerma, and Fred Tomaselli.
Fictions: New Narratives in Contemporary Photography. The Burke Distinguished Alumni Lecture, Indiana University, Bloomington, (2002).
A Defining Generation: Then and Now, 1961-2001. Symposium to inaugurate the Lois Foster Wing at The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University with Al Held, Sam Hunter, James Rosenquist (2001).
What is Modern Art? Collegiate School (New York City) Second Annual Colloquium, Keynote Address, 2001. Colloquium with Maxwell Anderson, Amy Newman, and Frank Stella.
The Spiritual Striving of the Freedmen’s Son: Robert S. Duncanson. Taft Museum, Cincinnati 10/04; National Gallery, Canada, 2/97; Clark Atlanta University, 9/96; Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, 4/96; Washington University Gallery of Art, 3/96; Cincinnati Art Museum, 9/95; Saint Louis Art Museum, 2/94; Mercantile Library, St. Louis, 11/93; Webster University, St. Louis, 2/93.
Revolution to Renaissance: African-American Art from Slave Artisans to Expatriate Artists, 1776-1920. Symposium, Washington University, (1996). Participants, Steven Jones, independent historian; Juanita Holland, U. of Maryland; Theresa Leininger-Miller, U. of Cincinnati; Judith Wilson, Yale.
Constructing the Image of Daniel Boone. Symposium, Washington University, St. Louis, (1992) Participants David Lubin, Colby College, John Mack Faragher, Mt. Holyoake College, Angela Miller, Washington University, and J. Gray Sweeney, Arizona State University.
The Saint Louis Art Museum. Lecture Abduction, Rape, and Redemption on the American Frontier: Carl F. Wimar's “Abduction of Daniel Boone's Daughter” (1853), (1988).
Cincinnati Art Museum. Symposium, The Life and Works of Robert S. Duncanson (1988), with Lynda Hartigan, National Museum of American Art, and James O. Horton, George Washington University.
Midwest Art History Society. Thomas Cole's “Aqueducts Near Rome” (1832), in session, Important Recent Acquisitions of Midwest Museums. Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota (1988).
American Culture Association. Robert S. Duncanson and Landscape Painting in Canada, in session, Art in Canada and the U.S.A. Montreal, Canada (1987).