Shamim Momin ‘95

Associate Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art
Branch Director and Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria

Co-curator of the 2004 Whitney Biennial and organizer of the recent solo exhibitions: Banks Violette: Untitled (2005), for which she also authored the catalogue, and Raymond Pettibon (2005-2006). Coordinator curator for Lorna Simpson, an upcoming survey of the artist's work; overseeing The Contemporary Series for 2006-2007. At the branch museum, Momin organizes five or six exhibitions per year, focusing on commissioning new work by emerging artists. Recent exhibitions at Altria have included projects with artists such as Rob Fischer, Sue de Beer, Luis Gispert, Katie Grinnan, Mark Bradford, Dario Robleto, Ellen Harvey, Do-Ho Suh, and E.V. Day. Dario Robleto: Say Goodbye to Substance (2003) was selected as part of the "Best of 2003: 11 Top Tens" by Artforum. She is currently organizing Andrea Zittel: Small Liberties (2006), a solo show that will run concurrently with the artist's retrospective at the New Museum. In addition to authoring essays for the exhibition brochures, she also produces the branch's gallery talks, artists' talks, symposia, and panel discussions, and supervises the production of the annual Performance on 42nd Street. Momin’s recent outside curatorial projects have included No Ordinary Sanctity (2005), a group exhibition at the Deutschbank project space, Salzburg, as well as Will Boys be Boys?: Examining Adolescent Masculinity in Contemporary Art (2004-2007), organized in conjunction with Independent Curators International. In addition, Momin has contributed essays to several outside monographs and exhibition catalogues; recent publications include: "To Meaning in Multiple: Represent, Represent, Represent," Stereomongrel: Luis Gispert and Jeff Reed, Santa Barbara: Contemporary Arts Forum, (2006), "True Mirror: A Reflection on Seeing and Believing," Ellen Harvey: Mirror, Philadelphia: Philadelphia Academy of Fine Art (2005), "After All, Just a Painting," Barnaby Furnas, Newcastle: Baltic Center for Contemporary Art (2005), "Come Back to Me: Making your Amends (To the Dead)," Sue de Beer, New York: DAP, Inc. (2005). She has also written for numerous arts publications, among them Art Review, Flash Art, Tema Celeste.

Courses:

Revolutions: Contemporary Art in New York

Link:

http://www.whitney.org/