Eva Respini is Deputy Director and Director of Curatorial Programs at the Vancouver Art Gallery. She was previously the Barbara Lee Chief Curator at the ICA/Boston and Curator in the Department of Photography at The Museum of Modern Art and organized numerous exhibitions including retrospectives of Robert Heinecken (2014) and Cindy Sherman (2012). Other exhibitions include Scenes for a New Heritage: Contemporary Art from the Collection (co-curated; 2015) _Projects 100: Akram Zaatari_ (2013),_New Photography 2012_,and _Staging Action: Performance in Photography since 1960_ (co-curated; 2010). She is currently at work on a major mid-career surveys of the artists Walid Raad (2015) and Liz Deschenes (2016). Respini is the author of _Robert Heinecken: Object Matter (2014)_; _Cindy Sherman_ (2012); and _Into the Sunset: Photography’s Image of the American West_ (2009); co-author of _Fashioning Fiction in Photography since 1990_ (2004); and has contributed to various museum publications.
We live in a world of unedited images. Pictures are present in our most private chambers and on the most public social-media platforms. Photography is without question the lingua franca of our time, even if the nature and ubiquity of photographs have been marked by a turn toward digital means of capturing and storing images.…
The year 2014 may come to be known as the year of Asian Biennials. During the second half of 2014, no fewer than six major exhibitions of international contemporary art were staged in Asia: the Yokohama Triennale (August 1–November 3) opened towards the end of the summer, followed by Media City Seoul (September 2–November 23),…
The featured APN (Asahi Picture News) portfolios are comprised of modern photographic prints showing sculptures made in 1953 and 1954 by Yamaguchi Katsuhiro and Kitadai Shozo, members of the avant-garde collaborative Jikken Kobo (Experimental Workshop). Founded in Tokyo immediately after World War II, Jikken Kobo’s intermedia, cross-disciplinary works helped to foster the rebirth of the…
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…
