Yasmil Raymond is a visual art
curator and the rector of the
Städelschule in
Frankfurt.
Education
Raymond received a
Bachelor of Fine Arts
A Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) is a standard undergraduate degree for students for pursuing a professional education in the visual, fine or performing arts. It is also called Bachelor of Visual Arts (BVA) in some cases.
Background
The Bachelor ...
from
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and
Master of Arts from the
Center for Curatorial Studies
Founded in 1990, the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard) is an exhibition and research center dedicated to the study of art and exhibition practices from the 1960s to the present. The Center initiated its graduate program in 1994 ...
,
Bard College.
In 2004, she won the Monique Beudert Curatorial Award given by the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College.
Career
From 1999-2002, Raymond worked in the education department of the
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
She worked at the Walker Art Center for five years starting in 2004, where she was first hired as a curatorial fellow, and later became an Associate Curator to the Visual Art department.
In 2009, Raymond joined the
Dia Art Foundation as curator.
While there, she primarily focused on American and European art with a special emphasis in contemporary art.
Raymond was briefly a curator-in-residence at the
Jerusalem Center for the Visual Arts in 2010,
and was hired as an associate curator at the
Museum of Modern Art in the department of Painting and Sculpture in 2015.
In 2020, Raymond was appointed the new rector of
Städelschule in Frankfurt and the director of
Portikus.
Exhibitions
In September 2017, an exhibition of the
Puerto Rican duo
Allora & Calzadilla
Jennifer Allora (born 20 March 1974) and Guillermo Calzadilla (born 10 January 1971) are a collaborative duo of visual artists who live and work in San Juan, Puerto Rico. They were the United States Representatives for the 2011 Venice Biennale, ...
's work curated by Raymond opens at Dia.
As an associate curator at the
Walker Art Center, in collaboration with
Philippe Vergne Philippe Vergne (born 1966) is a French curator and director of the Serralves Museum, Serralves Contemporary Art Museum. Until March 2019, he was director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA). He was the director of the Dia Art Foun ...
, Raymond arranged an award winning exhibition of the work of
Kara Walker which traveled on to the
Hammer Museum
The Hammer Museum, which is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles, is an art museum and cultural center known for its artist-centric and progressive array of exhibitions and public programs. Founded in 1990 by the entrepreneur- ...
in Los Angeles.
The exhibition titled ''Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love'' was awarded the 2008 Best Monographic Museum Show Nationally from the
International Association of Art Critics.
With
Doryun Chong, Raymond curated a group exhibition titled ''Brave New Worlds'' in 2007.
While associate curator at the
Dia Art Foundation, Raymond has exhibited work by
Thomas Hirschhorn,
Jean-Luc Moulène
Jean-Luc Moulène (born 1955) is a French contemporary artist based in Paris, France. Spanning a wide variety of media, such as photography, drawings, and sculptures, Moulène's practice examines the relationship between systems and orders. Moulèn ...
,
Yvonne Rainer, Ian Wilson,
Robert Whitman
Robert Whitman (born 1935 in New York City) is an American artist best known for his seminal theater pieces of the early 1960s combining visual and sound images, actors, film, slides, and evocative props in environments of his own making. Since t ...
,
Koo Jeong A, Franz Erhard Walther,
Tomás Saraceno,
Tino Sehgal, and
Trisha Brown.
References
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American art curators
American women curators
School of the Art Institute of Chicago alumni
Bard College alumni
21st-century American women