10 of 10 Lauren Halsey, the eastside of south central los angeles hieroglyph prototype architecture (I) (2022). Screening, MOCA Store, Lecture this Thursday. Her vision will help extend and expand the museum’s distinctive legacy as we look ahead to our next era. Photo by Hyla Skopitz, Courtesy Of The Metropolitan Museum Of Art, New York. She has extensive experience commissioning, presenting, and contextualizing contemporary artists leading global, interdisciplinary research initiatives and strategically building collections. Clara is a talented and trusted curator and arts leader. In a statement on Kim’s hiring, Burton said, “I could not be more excited to announce that Clara Kim is joining MOCA at this pivotal moment in the institution’s history and as I begin my own tenure here. Kim is Burton’s first major hire at the institution. When the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles (MOCA) opened its permanent quarters at California Plaza in 1987, Bunker Hill was a multi-level landscape of sprouting skyscrapers. Upon Biesenbach’s departure, Burton was named the institution’s director. Days later, Biesenbach announced that he would depart MOCA to lead the Neue Nationalgalerie and the forthcoming Museum of the 20th Century, two affiliated institutions in Berlin, where he got his start in the museum world. Last September, MOCA announced a restructuring of its senior leadership, demoting Biesenbach from director to artistic director and hiring Johanna Burton as executive director the two were intended to co-lead the institution. Established in 1979, MOCA is the only artist-founded museum in Los Angeles dedicated to collecting and exhibiting contemporary art. Locks resigned from her role in early 2021, saying “MOCA’s leadership is not yet ready to fully embrace IDEA,” referring to the acronym inclusion, diversity, equity, and access. When Klaus Biesenbach joined the institution as director, he did not hire a chief curator, but instead named Mia Locks as senior curator and director of new initiatives. The position of chief curator at the long-embattled museum has been vacant since 2018 after Helen Molesworth was fired by then-director Philippe Vergne, who soon departed the institution. “Throughout my career, I have championed art through exhibitions, residencies, and commissions, driven by the fundamental belief in the possibility of cultural dialogue and exchange to transform individuals and communities,” Kim said in a statement, “As a diverse, multi-lingual, multi-ethnic city, Los Angeles is uniquely positioned to chart new paths and horizons for contemporary art and what museums should look like in the 21st century.” Previously, Kim was senior curator of visual arts at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and gallery director and curator at REDCAT in L.A. She also served as a co-curator of the 2018 Gwangju Biennale and the 2017 exhibition “Condemned to be Modern,” which was part of the Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA initiative. Arata Isozaki, Architect Behind MOCA L.A., Dies at Age 91 When the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) opened its permanent quarters at California Plaza in 1987, Bunker Hill was a multi-level landscape of sprouting.
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