Eungie Joo pictured at center. Portait by Dan Ross

Eungie Joo
Spotlight Artist in Residence
Fall 2024

BIOGRAPHY

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 (2007-2012). 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: 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 Moved By the Motion.  


COURSES TAUGHT

Eungie Joo will be at UC Davis from October 22-24, 2024.


PUBLIC LECTURE

Joo will give a public lecture on Wednesday, October 23 from 4:30 to 6 p.m. at the Manetti Shrem Museum. 


Banner photo credit: Dan Ross