Roberta Bernstein
Roberta Bernstein, Professor of Art History, received her Ph.D. in art history from Columbia University in 1975. After teaching at Columbia and Barnard College, she joined the University at Albany faculty in 1980. She was appointed a Collins Fellow at the University in 2000. Her research is focused on the work of selected artists since the mid-twentieth century. Publications include Jasper Johns' Paintings and Sculptures: 1954-1974: "The Changing Focus of the Eye," UMI Research Press, 1985; major essays in retrospective catalogues of Johns (Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1996) and Ellsworth Kelly (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1996); as well as other catalogues and articles on these and other artists including Andy Warhol, Cy Twombly, and Marisol. She was co-curator of an exhibition, Jasper Johns: Numbers (2003) for the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Professor Bernstein teaches courses in Modern and Contemporary Art, as well as the Survey of Art of the Western World II and seminars for the department's MFA program.
