Curating Modern Asia: An Exhibition Strategy

Alexandra Monroe is an award-winning curator who has worked on over forty exhibitions, recognized for her pioneering scholarship on artists Cai Guo Qiang, Daido Moriyama, Yayoi Kusama, Lee Ufan, Mu Xin, and Yoko Ono, among others. She has brought historic avant-garde movements as Gutai, Mono-ha, Japanese otaku culture, and Chinese conceptual art to international attention. Her project Japanese Art after 1945: Scream Against the Sky (1994) is recognized for initiating postwar Japanese art history in North America. Munroe was lead curator of the Guggenheim’s Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World, which The New York Times named as one of the Top 10 exhibitions of 2017 and among the Top 25 most influential shows of the decade by Artnews. In this talk Munroe will share behind-the-scenes issues and challenges related to exhibition curation.