Saul Ostrow is Dean of Fine Arts and Head of Painting at the Cleveland
Institute of Art. From 1999 to 2003 he was Associate Professor of Art and Art
History, Director of the Center for Visual Arts and Culture (CVAC) and
Coordinator for the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Master Artists and Scholars
Institute at the University of Connecticut.   Before going to the University
of Connecticut he was the graduate thesis advisor for the MFA program at Nyu
University where he had taught courses in critical theory and contemporary
art history since 1989.
Since 1995 he has been the Editor of the book series Critical Voices in Art,
Theory and Culture which was originally published by G+B Arts International
and is now published by Routledge, London. Among the books series included in
this series were publications on or by Arthur Danto, Marshall McLuhan,
Freidrich Kittler, Griselda Pollack, Stephen Melville, Jonathan Katz, Moira
Roth, Mark Poster, Stanley Aronowitz, Norman Bryson, Mieke Bal, David Carrier
and two books edited by Richard Woodfield respectively on the work of Alois
Riegl and Aby Warburg.
Prof. Ostrow is also Art Editor for Bomb Magazine (a quarterly magazine of
art, literature, theater and film) and Co-Editor of Lusitania Press (which
publishes anthologies focusing on contemporary cultural issues and a
consulting editor to the University of Minn. Press). His own writings have
also appeared in Flashart International, ArtPress (FR.), Neue Bilde Kunst
(Ger.) the International Review of Art (Col.) Arts Magazine, World Art and
the New Art Examiner (USA) Art Journal,, Art Bulletin as well as numerous
exhibition catalogues.
In addition to his writing and teaching, Pro. Ostrow has curated since 1987
over 50 exhibition in the US and abroad in addition to the 4 exhibitions a
year he organized as director of the Center of Visual Art and Culture.
Approximately half of his curatorial projects have dealt with the issues of
Abstract Art, the others with issues arising from other forms of
representation. These have included in recent years "Painting All-Over:
Again" at the Municipal Gallery, Zaragoza, Spain 1996, "Painting in an
Expanding Field" Bennington College, Vt. 1997 and "Divergent Models",
Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, Germany, 1997 "Painting Function, Making it Real",
Spaces, Cleveland Ohio, 2000, and Supports/ Surfaces, Prescient Now and
Then, David Dorsky Projects, NYC, 2002.   In 2005 he will curate the
exhibition , Painting Before the Field 1955-70 at the Paine Weber Galleries in
NYC