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Naomi Beckwith

Naomi Beckwith is the Marilyn and Larry Fields Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Prior to joining the MCA, Beckwith was a fellow at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, working on numerous cutting-edge exhibitions including Locally Localized Gravity (2007), which was an exhibition and program of events featuring over 100 artists whose practices are social, participatory, and communal. Beckwith was previously the Associate Curator at The Studio Museum in Harlem, where she focused on themes of identity and conceptual practices in contemporary art and artists of African descent, as well as managed the Artists-in-Residence program. Beckwith has curated key exhibitions such as 30 Seconds off an Inch at The Studio Museum in Harlem (2009-10), exhibiting work by 42 artists of color or those inspired by black culture. She holds an MA with Distinction from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, completing her Master’s thesis on Adrian Piper and Carrie Mae Weems, and was a Critical Studies Fellow at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.

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Curator’s Perspective: Naomi Beckwith

Photo credit: Nathan Keay Naomi Beckwith Tuesday, March 10, 2015 7–8:30pm NYU Steinhardt Einstein Auditorium, Barney Building 34 Stuyvesant Street, off 9th St between 2nd and 3rd Ave. New York, NY 10003 FREE As part of ICI’s Curator’s Perspective—an itinerant public discussion series featuring international curators—Naomi Beckwith (Marilyn and Larry Fields Curator, Museum of Contemporary […]

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