Paulina Pobocha

Paulina Pobocha is Associate Curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, where she has worked since 2008. At MoMA she has organized Constantin Brancusi Sculpture, 2018; The Long Run(with Cara Manes), 2017; Rachel Harrison: Perth Amboy, 2016; Projects 103: Thea Djordjadze, 2016 (at MoMA PS1); Robert Gober: The Heart Is Not a Metaphor, 2013 (with Ann Temkin); Claes Oldenburg: The Street and The Store, 2013 (with Ann Temkin). She has also been central to the conception and display of the Museum’s contemporary collection galleries, 1970s-present, including the recent installation Gerhard Richter: October 18, 1977, now on view. Currently Pobocha is working with artist Thomas Schütte on a forthcoming retrospective exhibition for MoMA. In her curatorial practice, she is committed to understanding art as part of the larger social and political landscape, centering previously underrepresented artists and narratives within that history.

In addition to her work at The Museum of Modern Art, Pobocha has served as Critic at the Yale School of Art. Alongside a number of publications in many other journals, magazines, and exhibition catalogues, her forthcoming book on the artist Trisha Baga, published by documenta and Museum Fridericianum, will appear this spring.

Pobocha received her B.A. from the Johns Hopkins University in 2000 and her M. Phil. in 2005 from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.