Lisa Graziose Corrin is the Director of the Williams College Museum of Art(WCMA). She previously held the posts of Chief Curator at The Contemporary Museum (Baltimore), Chief Curator at the Serpentine Gallery (London), and Deputy Director of Art at the Seattle Art Museum where she continues to serve as the artistic lead on the new Olympic Sculpture Park, an 8.5 acre waterfront urban park in Seattle.

The park features major commissions by Louise Bourgeois, Mark Dion, Teresita Fernandez, Roy McMakin, and Pedro Reyes, as well as works by Ellsworth Kelly, Richard Serra, and Tony Smith amongst others. Corrin has curated some fifty solo and group exhibitions of contemporary art including projects/exhibitions with Richard Artschwager, Stan Douglas, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Gilbert & George, Andreas Gursky, Hans Haacke, William Kentridge, Yayoi Kusama, Brice Marden, Mariko Mori, Chris Ofili, Bridget Riley, Do-Ho Suh, Mark Tobey, Zhang Wang, Gillian Wearing, Rachel Whiteread, Fred Wilson, and Chen Zhen, as well as innovative exhibitions using the permanent collections of The Maryland Historical Society, The Walters Art Gallery, and the Victoria and Albert Museum.

She has also published widely on contemporary art, museum history, and curatorial practice. Her book, Mining the Museum: An Installation by Fred Wilson, was awarded the Wittenborn Prize in 1994.

She has also co-authored a Phaidon monograph on Mark Dion and is currently completing an essay on sculptor Anish Kapoor also for Phaidon. Her most recent curatorial activity includes Jackson Pollock at Williams College: A Tribute to Kirk Varnedoe ’67, a collaboration between WMCA and the Williamstown Art Conservation Center, and research-in-progress on contemporary Chinese art, and public art and civic space

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