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. She conducted six one-on-one graduate critiques and taught a seminar for Maria Manetti Shrem Art Studio Program graduate students. Joo's lecture discussed her work with Kara Walker during the production of "Fortuna and the Immortality Garden (Machine)" at SFMOMA.
PUBLIC LECTURE
Joo gave a public lecture on Wednesday, October 23 from 4:30 to 6 p.m. at the Manetti Shrem Museum.
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