MOCA Curators in Conversation: Michelle Yun Mapplethorpe
MOCA CURATORS IN CONVERSATION
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Michelle
Yun Mapplethorpe
Tuesday,
April 13, 2021, from 5:00 P.M. - 6:00 P.M. EDT
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Join
us virtually on Tuesday, April 13, at 5:00 PM EDT as curator and museum
director Michelle Yun Mapplethorpe talks about her life and work with Herb
Tam, MOCA's Curator and
Director of Exhibitions. This conversation is part of the series Curators
in Conversation, where we
learn about how curators, artists, and cultural producers in the
Chinese and Asian American community approach their work.
Michelle will discuss her upbringing, early interests in art, her
passion for modern and contemporary Asian art, museum leadership, and
recent projects, including Asia Society's inaugural Triennial We Do
Not Dream Alone,
the first initiative of its kind in the United States that focuses on
contemporary art from and about Asia and the diaspora, featuring more
than forty artists working across disciplines from more than twenty
countries.
Michelle Yun
Mapplethorpe is Vice President for
Global Artistic Programs at Asia Society, Director of Asia Society
Museum in New York, and Artistic Director of the Asia Society
Triennial. She is responsible for overseeing global arts and cultural
programs for the organization, the Museum’s exhibitions program and its
permanent collection. Yun Mapplethorpe is a widely-published author and
frequent lecturer on modern and contemporary Asian art. She earned her
M.A. in modern art and critical studies from Columbia University and
her B.A. from Mount Holyoke College. She is a graduate of the Getty
Leadership Institute’s Executive Education Program for Museum Leaders
and sits on the advisory board of the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum.
Prior to her appointment to Asia Society, Yun Mapplethorpe was Curator
of the Hunter College Art Galleries. She has served as Project Director
of Cai Guo-Qiang’s studio and as Curatorial Assistant in the Department
of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in
addition to organizing numerous independently curated exhibitions.
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