Eugenie Tsai will become the Brooklyn Museum's new Curator of Contemporary Art on October 29, 2007.
The Brooklyn Museum announced on September 21, 2007 that Eugenie Tsai, Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Museum of Modern Art's P.S. 1 extension in Long Island City, Queens, New York, will assume the endowed position of John and Barbara Vogelstein Curator of Contemporary Art on October 29. She'll replace Charlotta Kotik, an internationally recognized expert on the art of Louise Bourgeois (b. 1911), who retired from her post this past June.
A former Associate Director for Curatorial Affairs at New York's Whitney Museum of American Art, Dr. Tsai worked as an independent curator for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Berkeley Museum and the Princeton University Art Museum. During the past decade, she worked with African-American photographer Carrie Mae Weems (b. 1953), visual artist Christian Marclay (b. 1955) and Korean-born American video artist Nam June Paik (1932-2006).
Tsai received her B.A. from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota and Ph.D. in Art History and Archaeology from New York's Columbia University.
