The Bronx Museum of the Arts has chosen Shamim M. Momin as its subsequent director and chief curator. She’s going to tackle the position beginning in September. Momin succeeds Klaudio Rodriguez, who left the submit final yr to take the helm on the Museum of Positive Arts in St Petersburg, Florida.
Momin served because the director of curatorial affairs on the Henry Artwork Gallery in Seattle from 2018 to 2024. Whereas there, she curated the group exhibition In Plain Sight, which highlighted clandestine artist histories, and oversaw commissions by luminaries like Hank Willis Thomas, Diana Al-Hadid and Tala Madani.
Momin can be a co-founder of Los Angeles Nomadic Division, a nonprofit that focuses on site-specific public artwork. She organised greater than 100 commissions by some 300 artists throughout her tenure there. As well as, Momin has a long-standing relationship with the Whitney Museum of American Artwork, serving as an affiliate curator, then director of its former Midtown Altria location, in addition to curating its 2004 and 2008 biennial exhibitions.
Because the Bronx Museum undergoes a $42.9m renovation and growth, scheduled to open subsequent yr, the necessity for a frontrunner to navigate the establishment’s future moved to the forefront of the search committee’s priorities.
“The Bronx Museum has all the time been on the forefront of championing under-represented voices,” Joseph Mizzi, the museum’s board chair, mentioned in a press release. ”I’m totally assured that Shamim will uphold that legacy and is uniquely certified to develop and improve the impression of the museum and its mission.”
In an interview with Artnews, Momin mentioned that she sees the Bronx Museum as “aligned with the apply and values that I imagine most in”, offering her a possibility “to construct neighborhood, and organisational outreach and presence in eager about very totally different constituencies and communities”.
