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Education

BA: Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
MA: Visual Culture, New York University

Biography

After a decade in music industry management, costume design, and fashion styling, Shannon Bell Price entered academia through The Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. As Associate Research Curator at the Met, she collaborated with Harold Koda, Curator in Charge, and Andrew Bolton, Curator, on exhibitions, publications, acquisitions, and education. Since 2000, exhibitions on which she participated included: “Extreme Beauty: The Body Transformed” (2002); “Wild: Fashion Untamed,” which she co-curated (2004); “Anglomania: Tradition and Transgression in British Fashion” (2006); “Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy (2008); and “Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty” (2011). In addition to co-authoring “Wild: Fashion Untamed,” Price has contributed to the Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion (2004) and the Met’s award-winning Timeline of Art History. She is co-editor for the upcoming journal on luxury to be published by Berg and serves as an editorial board member for the Fashion, Style & Popular Culture Journal (PCA/ACA, Intellect Books) slated for 2013. She has taught and lectured at New York University and Parsons, with research interest areas that include twentieth-century avant-garde fashion and sub-cultural style, non-western costume as it relates to contemporary fashion practice, issues of sustainability, and postwar decorative arts and design history. Price is currently pursuing her doctorate in decorative arts, design, and culture at The Bard Graduate Center in New York City.