Jade Dellinger

Jade Dellinger is an Independent Curator collaborating regularly with the Contemporary Art Museum at the University of South Florida and the Tampa Museum of Art. In 1994, he invited artist Doug Aitken to present his first site-specific video installation "I'd Die for You" at the Pasco Art Center in Holiday, Florida. He curated Maurizio Cattelan's U.S. museum debut "Choose Your Destination: How to Get a Museum-Paid Vacation" in 1995, and organized the "Keith Edmier EK/KE" project (a collaborative installation with the iconic motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel) in 1997 at the USF CAM. Dellinger has curated major solo museum shows in the interim for Allan McCollum, Lucy Orta, Atelier Van Lieshout, Carlos Amorales, Janaina Tschäpe, Felice Varini, Keith Haring, The Art Guys, John Cage and others. He has contributed to numerous exhibition catalogues and publications including Sculpture, Flash Art International, Art Papers, Guitar Aficionado and Permanent Food, and co-authored the book, Are We Not Men? We Are DEVO! (SAF Publishing Ltd./UK, 2003/2008), which traces the history of the seminal 1980's New Wave band.