Shelley Rice

Shelley Rice (born August 20, 1950) is an American art historian and critic who specializes in photography. A 1992 Guggenheim Fellow, she has written several books, including Parisian Views. She is a professor at New York University Tisch School of the Arts. Biography Rice was born on August 20, 1950 in New York City. Inverted Odysseys: Claude Cahun, Maya Deren, Cindy Sherman (1999), and Xing Danwen (2015), and has co-authored several more.

Rice has curated several exhibitions within New York City museums and art galleries, some of which are located at NYU.

Rice was a 1980 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow. she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for "a study of photography in France and Haussmann's reconstruction of Paris". She was a Fulbright Research Fellow at the Musée Carnavalet (1988-1989) and a Fulbright Lecture Fellow at Boğaziçi University (1998-1999), in the latter's case building a public television media center. Works Books (co-author) Landmarks (1984) (ed.) Inverted Odysseys: Claude Cahun, Maya Deren, Cindy Sherman (1999) The Book of 101 Books (2001, essayist) The View from Left Field: Photographs from the Photo Morgue of the Daily Worker (2013, with Michael Nash), Tamiment Library at New York University