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Mana Mass Conversation: Eugenie Tsai of the Brooklyn Museum

February 21, 2019 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Studio 438
Mana Contemporary
888 Newark Avenue
Jersey City, NJ 07306
Thursday, February 21, 2019
6PM

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Mana Mass presents a special evening featuring Eugenie Tsai, the Brooklyn Museum’s Senior Curator of Contemporary Art, in conversation with writer and curator Sara Raza. Tsai will discuss her rich and lengthy career as an independent curator working with museums and university institutions, and as a curator at the Brooklyn Museum, MoMA PS1, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

EUGENIE TSAI
Eugenie Tsai joined the Brooklyn Museum in fall 2007 as John and Barbara Vogelstein Senior Curator of Contemporary Art, and has presented a number of exhibitions there highlighting the contemporary collection. She has also organized several other exhibitions including Sanford Biggers: Sweet Funk—An Introspective; Lee Mingwei: The Moving Garden; LaToya Ruby Frazier: A Haunted Capital; The Bruce High Quality Foundation: Ode to Joy, 2001–2013; Valerie Hegarty: Alternative Histories; Crossing Brooklyn: Art from Bushwick, Bed-Stuy, and Beyond (organized with Ru Hockley); and Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic.
Previously, Tsai was Director of Curatorial Affairs at MoMA PS1 and Associate Director for Curatorial Affairs at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Among the exhibitions and installations she has organized elsewhere are Threshold: Byron Kim, 1990–2004 at UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; Robert Smithson at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and Shuffling the Deck: The Collection Reconsidered at Princeton University.

SARA RAZA
Sara Raza was the Guggenheim UBS MAP Curator for the Middle East and North Africa, and recently organized the exhibition But a Storm Is Blowing from Paradise: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa. Formerly, she was Curator of the Maraya Art Centre in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.

WHAT IS MANA MASS?
Mana Mass is a membership-based career development platform for artists and art professionals. Rooted in the power of shared information and resources, it is a powerful network of advocacy and support with Mana Contemporary as its base. Find out more and sign up at manamass.com.

Photo: Courtesy of Eugenie Tsai

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February 21, 2019
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6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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