Ingrid Schaffner

Ingrid Schaffner (born 1961) is a curator and writer who has been working in contemporary art since the mid-1980s. Schaffner is known for developing bodies of work around the themes of surrealism, collecting, and photography.

Schaffner co-authored the publication Deep Storage[1] which was a major international survey of 50 contemporary artists representing issues and images of collecting, storage, and archiving. Other exhibitions include Pictures, Patents, Monkeys, More ...[2] on collecting, Richard Tuttle, In Parts, 1998-2001, and The Photogenic: Photography Through its Metaphor. She has numerous publications on 20th-century art, art reviews in Artforum, and catalog essays.

Schaffner is the Chief Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia[3] at the University of Pennsylvania.

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