Curator, Drawings and Prints, The Museum of Modern Art
Starr Figura is a Curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints at the Museum of Modern Art. Formerly, she was The Phyllis Ann and Walter Borten Associate Curator of Drawings and Prints at The Museum of Modern Art, where she has worked since 1993. In 2011 she organized German Expressionism: The Graphic Impulse, a major exhibition and catalogue produced in conjunction with a grant-funded project to digitize, catalogue, and conserve the Museum’s collection of more than 3,800 expressionist works on paper. All of these works are now searchable on an extensive subsite of MoMA’s website, MoMA.org/germanexpressionism. Among the other exhibitions she has organized for MoMA are: Paper: Pressed/Stained/Slashed/Folded (2009); Geo/Metric (2008); Lucian Freud: The Painter’s Etchings (2007); and The Compulsive Line: Etching 1900 to Now (2006). In 2004 she was Guest Curator for Richard Diebenkorn Prints, 1948–1993 at The Katonah Museum of Art. She has contributed essays and texts focusing primarily on printed art to numerous MoMA catalogues and other publications.
Throughout 2016, the C-MAP Latin America Group focused on the study and research of Colombian modern and contemporary artistic practices. The group held more than twenty meetings where scholars, artists, and curators were invited to present their work and talk about the historical, political, and social conditions that have shaped modern and contemporary art scene…
Painting 9 by Hélio Oiticica was made in 1959, at a pivotal moment for a new and quintessentially Brazilian form of modernism.
Anna Maria Maiolino (Brazilian, born Italy, 1942) refers to Trajetória I (1976) as a “Book Object,” a term that aptly describes the way it combines aspects of a book with those of a sculpture. Although comprised of eleven folios of black, white, and red papers bound into a black paper cover, it does not include text or…
The C-MAP Latin America research group spent a week in Mexico City in August 2014, visiting the Distrito Federal’s major institutions, flourishing gallery scene, artists’ studios, and architectural sites. The group also celebrated the project Poema Colectivo 2014 and participated in a roundtable at the Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC) with Mexico City–based curators. Throughout the…
The research project C-MAP (Contemporary and Modern Art Perspectives) is built upon research that happens both within and outside MoMA. In November 2012, a group of curators, educators, and editorial staff from MoMA spent ten days in Brazil. All through the preceding year, the C-MAP Latin America group had attended lectures, roundtables, and seminars on twentieth-century art…
