California College of the Arts

Vivian Bobka

Vivian Bobka's area of concentration is the art, theory, and criticism of Modernism and post-Modernism, with a historical focus on the art of the 1970s. She is currently completing a study of Hanne Darboven, conceptual art, and German historical memory. Excerpts from this study have appeared online for the Dia Art Foundation. A predoctoral German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) fellow in Berlin, she has published journal articles, reviews, and catalog essays in the United States and Europe.


Senior Lecturer, Graduate Program in Fine Arts.

BA, Barnard College; MA, Hunter College, MA Philosophy, City University of New York.