Lanka Tattersall

Lanka Tattersall

Program

CCL Class of 2021

Institution

Museum of Modern Art

Title

Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints

Institution at time of Fellowship

Museum of Modern Art

Mentor

Manuel Borja-Villel, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía

Lanka Tattersall is a recently appointed Curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints at The Museum of Modern Art. Previously, she was Associate Curator at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), where she organized the exhibitions Cameron Rowland: D37 (2018), Real Worlds: Brassaï, Arbus, Goldin (2018), Lauren Halsey: we still here, there(2018), and Hito Steyerl: Factory of the Sun(2016), among other exhibitions. At MOCA, she spearheaded a number of important commissions and performances, including works by Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Rafa Esparza, Juliana Huxtable, and Patrick Staff. From 2010 to 2014, Tattersall was a Curatorial Assistant in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at MoMA, where she was an integral part of the curatorial and editorial teams for the touring retrospective and its accompanying monograph, Alibis: Sigmar Polke 1963-2010, organized by Kathy Halbreich, former Associate Director, MoMA; with Mark Godfrey, Curator of International Art, Tate Modern, and Tattersall.

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