CURATORIAL LEADERSHIP SUMMIT:
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6
3:30PM
ARMORY LIVE THEATER
Featuring artist Isaac Julien in conversation with Lauren Cornell, Chief Curator of the Hessel Museum of Art and Director of the Graduate Program at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College.
The Armory Show’s Curatorial Leadership Summit (CLS) is an annual, closed-door, day-long symposium that aims to foster innovation in the curatorial landscape. This year’s edition is chaired by Lauren Cornell, Chief Curator of the Hessel Museum of Art and Director of the Graduate Program at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
LAUREN CORNELL
Lauren Cornell is Chief Curator at the Hessel Museum and Director of the Graduate Program at the Center for Curatorial Studies (CCS), Bard College. At CCS Bard, Cornell has curated multiple monographic exhibitions including surveys of Sky Hopinka, Leidy Churchman, Nil Yalter, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, Martine Syms and Dara Birnbaum. Previously, Cornell was the Curator and Associate Director of Technology Initiatives at the New Museum. From 2005–2012, Cornell served as Executive Director of Rhizome, an organization that commissions, exhibits, and preserves art engaged with technology. She is a coeditor, with Ed Halter, of Mass Effect: Art and the Internet in the Twenty-First Century (New Museum and MIT Press, 2015), and has contributed to numerous exhibition catalogs and art magazines. Cornell is a recipient of ArtTable’s New Leadership Award.
Photo by Carrie Schneide.
ISAAC JULIEN
Born in 1960, Isaac Julien lives and works in London and Santa Cruz, California. Recent international solo and group exhibitions include: Isaac Julien: Lessons of the Hour, MoMA, New York, USA (on view until 28 September 2024); Isaac Julien: Once Again...(Statues Never Die), Whitney Biennale, Whitney Museum of American Art, USA; Isaac Julien: Ten Thousand Waves, Espace Louis Vuitton Osaka, Japan; Entangled Pasts, 1768–now, Royal Academy, London, UK; Isaac Julien: Lessons of the Hour - Frederick Douglass, Tang Teaching Museum, New York, USA; A Model, Mudam – The Contemporary Art Museum of Luxembourg; Soulscapes, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, UK (all 2024); Isaac Julien: What Freedom Is To Me, Tate Britain, London, UK; touring to K21, Germany; Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, Netherlands (2023–2024); Isaac Julien: Lessons of the Hour - Frederick Douglass, National Portrait Gallery and Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. USA; Isaac Julien: Lessons of the Hour - Frederick Douglass, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Oregon, USA; I Am Seen…Therefore, I Am: Isaac Julien and Frederick Douglass, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Connecticut, USA; Isaac Julien: PLAYTIME, PalaisPopulaire, Germany; Isaac Julien: Lina Bo Bardi – A Marvellous Entanglement, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA; Isaac Julien: Lina Bo Bardi – A Marvellous Entanglement, Yale School of Architecture, Connecticut, USA (all 2023); Isaac Julien: Once Again… (Statues Never Die), Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, USA; Isaac Julien: Lessons of the Hour - Frederick Douglass, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, USA; Isaac Julien, Goslar Kaiserring, Mönchehaus Museum, Goslar, Germany; Details of Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898 – 1971, Academy Museum, Los Angeles, USA; Life Between Islands: Caribbean-British Art 1950s-Now, Tate Britain, London, UK, touring to the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada (2022–2023).
In 2023, Julien was ranked fifth in the Art Review ‘Power 100’ list.
In 2022, Julien received a Knighthood in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for the Platinum Jubilee year and was honoured with the esteemed Kaiserring Goslar Award.
In 2019, Julien was appointed to the faculty of the University of California, Santa Cruz. Julien and independent curator and writer Mark Nash, the former head of contemporary art at the Royal College of Art in London, developed the Isaac Julien Lab at the UC Santa Cruz campus, which provides students with the opportunity to assist Julien and Nash with project research and the production of moving image and photographic works in California and London.
In 2017, Julien was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to the Arts in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List and was the recipient of The Royal Academy of Arts Charles Wollaston Award.
Photo by Thierry Bal.
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