Helen Molesworth

Helen Molesworth is an American curator of contemporary art. Most recently, she was the Chief Curator at The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles. Since her arrival in Los Angeles in 2014 she has reinstalled MOCA’s permanent collection galleries, co-organized a survey exhibition of Kerry James Marshall that traveled to Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles, organized Anna Maria Maiolino’s first US retrospective, and forged a partnership between MOCA and The Underground Museum. From 2010-2014 she was the Barbara Lee Chief Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Boston, where she assembled one person exhibitions of artists Steve Locke, Catherine Opie, Josiah McElheny, and Amy Sillman, and the group exhibitions Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957, Dance/Draw, and This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s. As head of the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Harvard Art Museum, she presented an exhibition of photographs by Moyra Davey and ACT UP NY: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis 1987-1993. From 2002 to 2007 she was the Chief Curator of Exhibitions at the Wexner Center for the Arts where she organized the first US retrospectives of Louise Lawler and Luc Tuymans, as well as Part Object Part Sculpture, which examined the influence of Marcel Duchamp’s erotic objects. While Curator of Contemporary Art at The Baltimore Museum of Art from 2000-2002, she arranged Work Ethic, which traced the problem of artistic labor in post-1960s art. She is the author of numerous catalogue essays and her writing has appeared in publications such as Artforum, Art Journal, Documents, and October. The recipient of the 2011 Bard Center for Curatorial Studies Award for Curatorial Excellence, she is currently at work on the exhibition One Day at a Time: Manny Farber and Termite Art.

Selected exhibitions

Selected publications

  • ONE DAY AT A TIME : manny farber and termite art, Molesworth, Helen. PRESTEL ART, 2018[5]
  • Duchamp: By Hand, Even, Molesworth, Helen. Wien Verlag für Moderne Kunst 2017[6]
  • Leap before you look : Black Mountain College, 1933-1957, Molesworth, Helen. Boston : Institute of contemporary art in association with Yale University press[7]
  • Molesworth, Helen. "How to Install Art as a Feminist." Modern Women: Women Artists at The Museum of Modern Art. Ed. Connie Butler, Ed. Alexandra Schwartz. Published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York. 2014.[8]
  • Amy Sillman : one lump or two, Molesworth, Helen. New York : DelMonico Books Prestel, 2013.[9]
  • Louise Lawler, Molesworth, Helen. Cambridge, Massachusetts MIT Press, 2013.[10]
  • Klara Lidén bodies of society, Molesworth, Helen. New York, N.Y. New Museum 2012[11]
  • This will have been : art, love, & politics in the 1980s, Molesworth, Helen. Chicago : Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago ; London ; New Haven (Conn.) : Yale University Press, cop. 2012.[12]
  • Catherine Opie: Empty and Full, Molesworth, Helen, ed. Hatje Cantz, Stuttgart, 2011.[13]
  • Dance/Draw : the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Molesworth, Helen. Ostfildern : Hatje Cantz, ©2011.[14]
  • Luc Tuymans : exposition, Palais des beaux-arts de Bruxelles, 18 février-8 mai 2011, Molesworth, Helen. Bruxelles : Ludion, DL 2011.[15]
  • Part Object Part Sculpture, Molesworth, Helen, ed., Penn State Press, 2005.[16]
  • Body Space, Molesworth, Helen. Baltimore Museum of Art, 2001.[17]
  • Work Ethic, Molesworth, Helen. Baltimore Museum of Art , 2003.[18]

References

  1. ↑ Steadman, Ryan (February 2, 2016). "One of the Great American Artists Gets an American Retrospective". Retrieved 10 April 2016.
  2. ↑ Miranda, Carolina A (January 8, 2016). "9 ways in which Helen Molesworth's permanent collection show at MOCA is upending the story of art". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
  3. ↑ Westin, Monica (February 16, 2012). "The MCA's "This Will Have Been" and the Subjectivity of History". Art21. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
  4. ↑ "SFMOMA AND WEXNER CENTER TO PRESENT FIRST U.S. RETROSPECTIVE OF THE WORK OF LUC TUYMANS". SF MoMA. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
  5. ↑ MOLESWORTH, HELEN (2018). ONE DAY AT A TIME: manny farber and termite art. S.l.: PRESTEL ART. ISBN 3791357662.
  6. ↑ Molesworth, Helen; Banz, Stefan; Edition KMD (2017). Helen Molesworth Duchamp: By hand, even. ISBN 9783903153981.
  7. ↑ Molesworth, Helen Anne; Erickson, Ruth (2016). Leap before you look: Black Mountain College, 1933-1957. Boston; Boston, Mass.; New Haven, Conn.; London: Institute of contemporary art in association with Yale University press(IS) Institute of contemporary art ; Yale University press. ISBN 9780300211917.
  8. ↑ Butler, Cornelia H; Schwartz, Alexandra (2010). Modern women: women artists at the Museum of Modern Art. New York: Museum of Modern Art : Distributed in the U.S. and Canada by D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers. ISBN 9780870707711.
  9. ↑ Molesworth, Helen (2013). Amy Sillman: one lump or two (in Undetermined). New York: DelMonico Books (Prestel).
  10. ↑ Molesworth, Helen (2013). Louise Lawler. Cambridge, Massachusetts [u.a.: MIT Press. ISBN 9780262018814.
  11. ↑ Molesworth, Helen; Gioni, Massimiliano; Moore, Jenny; Rist, Pipilotti; New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York, N.Y.) (2012). Klara Lidén bodies of society. New York, N.Y: New Museum. ISBN 9780985448523.
  12. ↑ Molesworth, Helen Anne; Ward, Frazer; Mercer, Kobena; Burton, Johanna; Lebovici, Elisabeth; Horrigan, Bill; Schulman, Sarah (2012). This will have been: art, love, & politics in the 1980s. Chicago; London; New Haven (Conn.): Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago ; Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300181104.
  13. ↑ Opie, Catherine (2011). Empty and full. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verl. ISBN 9783775730150.
  14. ↑ Molesworth, Helen (2011). Dance/Draw: the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz. ISBN 9783775731638.
  15. ↑ Molesworth, Helen; Grynsztein, Madeleine; Palais des beaux-arts (Bruxelles) (2011). Luc Tuymans [exposition, Palais des beaux-arts de Bruxelles, 18 février-8 mai 2011 (in French). Bruxelles: Ludion. ISBN 9789055447725.
  16. ↑ Molesworth, Helen; Wexner Center for the Arts (Columbus, OH) (2005). Part object, part sculpture. Columbus, OH; University Park, PA: Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University ; Pennsylvania State University Press. ISBN 0271028556.
  17. ↑ Molesworth, Helen; Baltimore Museum of Art (2001). Bodyspace. Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art.
  18. ↑ Molesworth, Helen; Alexander, M. Darsie; Bryan-Wilson, Julia; Baltimore Museum of Art (2003). Work ethic. Baltimore [etc: Baltimore Museum of Art [etc. ISBN 0271023341.
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