Nancy Lim is a Curatorial Assistant in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art. She recently worked on the exhibition Tokyo 1955-1970: A New Avant-Garde (2012), organized by Doryun Chong. Previously, she was the Asian Art Curatorial Fellow at The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (2009-2011), where she worked on the Bilbao presentation of the survey Anish Kapoor (2010), as well as the New York retrospective Lee Ufan: Marking Infinity (2011).
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…
