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Eungie Joo: Soft Power

Thu Feb 13, 2020 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Curator Eungie Joo discusses issues raised in the exhibition SOFT POWER, on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art through February. Featuring recent works and new commissions by twenty international artists, the exhibition looks at the ways in which artists deploy art to explore their roles as citizens and social actors.

Eungie Joo is curator of contemporary art at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, where she organized the group exhibition, SOFT POWER (October 2019-February 2020), featuring recent works and new commissions by twenty international artists. Joo was Artistic Director of the 5th Anyang Public Art Project/APAP 5 (2016) in Korea and curator of Sharjah Biennial 12: The past, the present, the possible (2015) in the United Arab Emirates. From 2007-2012, Joo was Keith Haring Director and Curator of Education and Public Programs at the New Museum, New York, where she spearheaded the Museum as Hub program, an international partnership of arts organizations to explore artistic, curatorial, and institutional practice.  Joo was curator of the 2012 New Museum Generational Triennial: The Ungovernables, published the Art Spaces Directory (2012), a guide to over 400 independent art spaces from over ninety-six countries, and edited the volume Rethinking Contemporary Art and Multicultural Education (2009). She was commissioner of the Korean Pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2009, organizing the exhibition Condensation: Haegue Yang. Joo was founding Director and Curator of the Gallery at REDCAT, Los Angeles, where she developed residencies and exhibitions with Mark Bradford, Gimhongsok and Sora Kim, Damián Ortega, Taro Shinoda, Song Dong and Yin Xiuzhen, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Kara Walker and others. Joo received her doctorate from the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. 

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