Christopher Y. Lew is Assistant Curator at MoMA PS1. He joined the Museum in 2006 and has organized the exhibitions New Pictures of Common Objects, Chim Pom, Clifford Owens: Anthology, and Nancy Grossman: Heads (with Klaus Biesenbach), as well as projects by Edgard Aragón, Rey Akdogan, Ilja Karilampi, and Caitlin Keogh. He has also curated exhibitions and programs in New York City at venues such as Artists Space and Aljira, and written broadly. Prior to joining the Museum, he worked as managing editor at ArtAsiaPacific and held positions at the Aperture Foundation and the Asian American Arts Centre.
From museum storage rooms and Butoh dance performances to gallery visits and Shinjuku by night, a group of MoMA curators in the C-MAP research group led by Associate Curator Doryun Chong went to Japan in the fall of 2011. The goal: to visit the people and places that have been crucial in the curators’ research…
