Connie Butler

Connie Butler

Connie Butler is chief curator at the Hammer Museum, where since 2013 she has organized numerous exhibitions including Lari Pittman: Declaration of Independence (2019), Made in L.A. 2014, Mark Bradford: Scorched Earth (2015), and Marisa Merz: The Sky is A Great Space (2017). She co-curated Adrian Piper: A Synthesis of Intuitions, 1965–2016(2018), which opened at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, and traveled to the Hammer Museum in fall 2018. From 2006 to 2013, she was Robert Lehman Foundation Chief Curator of Drawings at MoMA, where she co-curated Lygia Clark: The Abandonment of Art, 1948–1988 (2014); On Line: Drawing through the Twentith Century (2010) and Marlene Dumas: Measuring Your Own Grave (2008). Butler also organized the groundbreaking survey WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution (2007) at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, where she was curator from 1996 to 2006. She is currently working on Witch Hunt, an international exhibition of new work by mid career artists committed to feminism which will open at the Hammer in fall 2020.

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