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Shamim Momin
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
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Shamim M. Momin was appointed Associate Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 2004, and has been Branch Director and Curator of the Whitney Museum at Altria since October 2000. In addition to co-curating the2004 Whitney Biennial, she has recently organized the solo exhibitions Mark Grotjahn (2006), Raymond Pettibon (2005-06), and Banks Violette: Untitled (2005), for which she also authored the
catalogue. At the branch museum, Momin is responsible for organizing exhibitions and focusing on commissioning new work by emerging artists for both solo and thematic presentations, as well as writing essays for exhibition brochures, producing gallery talks, artists\’ talks, symposia, and panel discussions, and supervising the production of the annual Performance on 42nd Street series.
Momin\’s exhibitions at Altria have included projects with artists such as Andrea Zittel, Rob Fischer, Sue de Beer, Luis Gispert, Katie Grannan, Mark Bradford, Dario Robleto, Ellen Harvey, Do-Ho Suh, and E.V. Day.
As part of The Contemporary Series, which she organizes, Momin\’s latest exhibition for the Whitney is Terence Koh, opening on January 19, 2007, accompanied by a catalogue co-authored by Momin. She is overseeing the New York installation of Lorna Simpson, a touring exhibition organized by the American Federation of Arts, which opens at the Whitney on March 1, 2007, for which she also contributed to the catalogue.
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 (traveling to six venues nationally). In addition to her Whitney exhibition publications, Momin has contributed essays to numerous
other monographs, art periodicals, and exhibition catalogues, most recently as an invited author for the next in the Phaidon Cream series. Momin has participated on numerous juries and panels throughout the country. She has
served as Visiting Professor for NYU\’s MFA Senior Seminar (Fall 2005), and is currently adjunct professor of contemporary art for Williams College 2007 Semester in New York program.