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Eungie Joo – The California Studio
October 23 @ 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Free
Eungie Joo is Curator and Head of Contemporary Art at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Prior to SFMOMA, Joo was Keith Haring Director and Curator of Education and Public Programs at the New Museum in New York (2007 to 2012). She curated the 5th Anyang Public Art Project/APAP 5 (2016), Sharjah Biennial 12: The past, the present, the possible (2015), the 2012 New Museum Generational Triennial: The Ungovernables, and the Korean Pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale (2009), where she presented Condensation by Haegue Yang. Joo was the founding director and curator of the Gallery at REDCAT in Los Angeles. She received the Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement in 2006.
Joo has curated several exhibitions this summer and fall at SFMOMA, including the site-specific installation Fortuna and the Immortality Garden (Machine) by Kara Walker, the museum’s first ever commission for the admission-free, street-level Roberts Family Gallery. Her other projects on view include What Matters, Episode 2, New Work: Mary Lovelace O’Neal, and Of Whales by Wu Tsang, and New Work by Wu Tsang/Moved By the Motion.
Eungie Joo is the fall quarter spotlight curator in The California Studio: Manetti Shrem Artist Residencies.
Public talk: Wednesday, Oct. 23 from 4:30 – 6 p.m., Manetti Shrem Museum. The talk is open to the public. Doors open at 4 p.m.
Organized by The California Studio: Manetti Shrem Artist Residences in the Maria Manetti Shrem Art Studio Program. Co-sponsored by the Manetti Shrem Museum.