Congratulations to David Breslin (CCL 2019) on his appointment to Director of Curatorial Initiatives at the Whitney! Previously, Breslin served as the DeMartini Family Curator and Director of the Collection at the Whitney. He has curated or co-curated Where We Are: Selections from the Whitney’s Collection, 1900-1960; An Incomplete History of Protest: Selections from ... Read More >
SculptureCenter has appointed Christian Rattemeyer (MoMA International Curatorial Institute 2014) as its new director! Since 2007, Rattemeyer has served as the Harvey S. Shipley Miller Associate Curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints at the Museum of Modern Art. At MoMA, Rattemeyer has curated many exhibitions, including Transmissions: Art in Eastern Europe and Latin ... Read More >
Exciting news from Boston! The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston has named Ethan Lasser (CCL 2018) chair of the department for Art of the Americas and promoted Layla Bermeo (Seminar 2016) to Associate Curator of Paintings. Ethan will begin his post at the MFA Boston in September after serving as Head, Division of European ... Read More >
The Center for Curatorial Leadership (CCL) is pleased to announce the sixteen art history doctoral students selected for the sixth annual CCL/Mellon Foundation Seminar in Curatorial Practice. Joining from fifteen universities—six of which are sending a student to the program for the first time—this year’s cohort addresses a wide range ... Read More >
LA MoCA has appointed Mia Locks (CCL 2018) to Senior Curator and Head of New Initiatives. Previously an independent curator, Locks served as cocurator of the Whitney Biennial in 2017. From 2013 to 2017, Locks was an assistant curator at MoMA PS1 where she contributed to organizing its quinquennial Greater New York in 2015. Locks will be returning to ... Read More >
The Yale Center for British Art has named Courtney J. Martin (CCL 2019) its Director. Previously the deputy director and chief curator of the Dia Art Foundation, Martin will begin her position in June. Martin earned her doctorate from Yale, writing her dissertation on British art and artists in the 1970s. As a graduate ... Read More >
The National Gallery London has promoted Caroline Campbell (CCL 2016) to Director of Collections and Research. Previously Head of the Curatorial Department and Curator of Italian Paintings before 1500 at the National Gallery, London, Campbell has also held positions at The Courtauld Gallery, London (where she was Curator of Paintings from 2005-12), ... Read More >
Thomas Lax (CCL 2017) has been named Curator of Media and Performance at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Lax was previously Associate Curator in the department, a position he held since 2014. Lax has organized some of MoMA’s most celebrated performance-related shows, including a Judson Dance Theater survey and ... Read More >
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has named Rita Gonzalez (CCL 2018) Curator and Head of Contemporary Art. Rita has been at LACMA since 2006 where she has curated numerous exhibitions of contemporary Latinx and Latin American art, including "Phantom Sightings: Art after the Chicano Movement" (2008), "Asco: Elite of ... Read More >
Congratulations to Kristopher Driggers (CCL/Mellon Seminar 2017) who has been named Assistant Curator, Bernard and Jeanette Schmidt Curator of Latin American Art at the Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block. Kris participated in the annual CCL/Mellon Seminar in Curatorial Practice in 2017, and expects to complete his doctoral work in ... Read More >