https://www.susanlthompson.com/home daily 1.0 2020-09-28 https://www.susanlthompson.com/contact daily 0.75 2020-09-23 https://www.susanlthompson.com/about daily 0.75 2023-02-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68e75b488a5f5c35835986/1600715266405-PKY4EI3HHFBX9IGAW81D/Susan+Thompson_ph-13.jpg About — Susan Thompson Susan Thompson is a curator and writer working in the greater New York City area. She is currently the Director of Grantmaking and Curatorial Research at VIA Art Fund. From 2020-22, she served as project manager for Simone Leigh: Sovereignty presented at the U.S. Pavilion as part of the 59th Venice Biennale. This project included the momentous Loophole of Retreat: Venice symposium, which gathered 70 presenters and 700 attendees in Venice for three days of talks, performances, film screenings, and conversations. From 2009-2020, she worked as a curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, where she organized numerous exhibitions, including Implicit Tensions: Mapplethorpe Now, Simone Leigh: Loophole of Retreat, and Anicka Yi: Life Is Cheap. She is the author of Ghada Amer: Painting in Revolt and Louise Bonnet: Vagabond, and has contributed essays to numerous monographs, exhibition catalogues, and scholarly volumes. Thompson has also held positions at the Whitney Museum of American Art and in Columbia University’s Department of Art History and Archaeology. She holds a BA in art history and political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an MA in modern art from Columbia University. https://www.susanlthompson.com/exhibitions daily 0.75 2021-03-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68e75b488a5f5c35835986/b902f0c4-b8a7-49f4-90dd-ed4d60d2e387/IMG_0979.PNG Exhibitions — Susan Thompson Simone Leigh: Sovereignty (U.S. Pavilion, 59th Venice Biennale, 2022) [Project Manager] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68e75b488a5f5c35835986/1600794523456-XZUJ2IDJ23YM3FM632QO/echard_spring2020_0055.jpg Exhibitions — Susan Thompson New Waves 2020 (Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, 2020) [Selecting Juror] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68e75b488a5f5c35835986/1600793983006-ZLIO9KASCJTH6UTHCG5F/im-199583.jpg Exhibitions — Susan Thompson Reach Out and Touch Me (Jack Shainman Gallery ArtBasel OVR, 2020) [curator] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68e75b488a5f5c35835986/1600716919866-GDPPN2PA1USVDLI113LR/Mapplethorpe+Implicit+Tensions+part+2_exh_ph082.jpg Exhibitions — Susan Thompson Implicit Tensions: Mapplethorpe Now, Part II: Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Lyle Ashton Harris, Glenn Ligon, Zanele Muholi, Catherine Opie, and Paul Mpagi Sepuya (Guggenheim, 2019) [curator] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68e75b488a5f5c35835986/1600718641343-GIR239S9ZYKZ1KTD0FUY/Mapplethorpe+Implicit+Tensions-exh_ph-48.jpg Exhibitions — Susan Thompson Implicit Tensions: Mapplethorpe Now, Part I (Guggenheim, 2019) [curator] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68e75b488a5f5c35835986/1600718788896-5V4ADJ7JLC9MHBJJIH1O/Hugo+Boss+Prize+2018-exh_ph-16.jpg Exhibitions — Susan Thompson Simone Leigh: Loophole of Retreat (Guggenheim, 2019) [curator] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68e75b488a5f5c35835986/1610663555904-N4TG4018CVLKT2EKHXSA/Danh+Vo+Take+My+Breath+Away-exh_ph010.jpg Exhibitions — Susan Thompson Danh Vo: Take My Breath Away (Guggenheim, 2018) [Associate Curator] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68e75b488a5f5c35835986/1600719013664-L1IQR59VKIOHBMA2NZ8D/Hugo+Boss+Prize+2016-exh_ph-17.jpg Exhibitions — Susan Thompson Anicka Yi: Life is Cheap (Guggenheim, 2017) [curator] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68e75b488a5f5c35835986/1600800333187-CGXQHI1JPAB6DYBT4F3A/Bismuth2.jpg Exhibitions — Susan Thompson Julien Bismuth (Guggenheim, 2017) [curator] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68e75b488a5f5c35835986/1610739196337-WG7CJZMP151GUNJL73AP/Photo+Poetics-exh_ph041.jpg Exhibitions — Susan Thompson Photo-Poetics: An Anthology (Guggenheim, 2015-16) [Assistant Curator] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68e75b488a5f5c35835986/1610739030341-JUUMYHNG0XYL9K845717/0626DORISJPALT1-jumbo.jpg Exhibitions — Susan Thompson Doris Salcedo (Guggenheim, 2015) [Assistant Curator] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68e75b488a5f5c35835986/1610739334303-1T1V3PX50YDX1L02K72U/DBKH-PP-IN-31.jpg Exhibitions — Susan Thompson Photo-Poetics: An Anthology (Kunsthalle by DeutscheBank, Berlin, 2015) [Assistant Curator] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68e75b488a5f5c35835986/1600808571670-NBQQQNQO9W8SOPP8G2V4/Hugo+Boss+Prize+2014-exh_ph028.jpg Exhibitions — Susan Thompson Paul Chan: Nonprojections for New Lovers (Guggenheim, 2015) [curator] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68e75b488a5f5c35835986/1610739095200-D74XLSEEBXY05UO37UN3/unnamed.jpg Exhibitions — Susan Thompson Italian Futurism, 1909–1944: Reconstructing the Universe (Guggenheim, 2014) [Assistant Curator] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68e75b488a5f5c35835986/1600806617764-033AJGAZIEN30GC9PV02/Carrie+Mae+Weems-9.jpg Exhibitions — Susan Thompson Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video (Guggenheim, 2014) [Assistant Curator] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68e75b488a5f5c35835986/1600806511016-39TQP5J2OLW5OGITDAGC/Rineke+Dijkstra-exh_ph060.jpg Exhibitions — Susan Thompson Rineke Dijkstra: A Retrospective (Guggenheim, 2012) [Curatorial Assistant] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68e75b488a5f5c35835986/1600806739708-HA8EYJ4NJZHH7GE7PZ2A/Francesca_Woodman-exh_ph-9.jpg Exhibitions — Susan Thompson Francesca Woodman (Guggenheim, 2012) [Curatorial Assistant] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68e75b488a5f5c35835986/1600796227748-XETVG5KNXYQUXNWFYUWE/Grace_Benjamin_Hollingsworth_43.jpg Exhibitions — Susan Thompson Benjamin Hollingsworth: Grace (City Gallery at Waterfront Park, Charleston, SC, 2012) [curator] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68e75b488a5f5c35835986/1600806910987-0GQK6Z597SDWBJ42DD2N/mlwangechi-mutu.jpg Exhibitions — Susan Thompson The Luminous Interval (Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain, 2011) [Curatorial Assistant] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68e75b488a5f5c35835986/1600797139700-EJTDSRY5VUSDC5C9TU5W/you%26i.jpg Exhibitions — Susan Thompson Spatial Non-fictions (ISE Cultural Foundation, NY, 2009) [curator] https://www.susanlthompson.com/writing-b daily 0.75 2021-01-14 https://www.susanlthompson.com/writing daily 0.75 2022-08-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68e75b488a5f5c35835986/91bc24f2-6798-456f-865f-a90a88a5c49f/STAVER-BOOK.jpeg Writing - Susan Thompson "Kyle Staver Knows What the Painting Wants," in Kyle Staver (Nino Mier, 2024) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68e75b488a5f5c35835986/9b87f836-4ce8-455f-97ba-b22c791052bb/made-in-l-a-2023-acts-of-living-9.gif Writing - Susan Thompson "Chiffon Thomas" and "Paige Jiyoung Moon," in Made in L.A. 2023: Acts of Living (Hammer Museum, 2023) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68e75b488a5f5c35835986/ee95eb8d-5beb-48fc-8553-f8f8ca3c9aa8/unnamed+%281%29.jpg Writing - Susan Thompson "Hendricks the Photographer," in Barkley L. Hendricks: Solid!, ed. Zoé Whitley (Skira Editore, 2023) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68e75b488a5f5c35835986/f01e3cea-d1ba-4631-9b18-a492e85f51c9/IMG_2974.jpg Writing - Susan Thompson Daniel Gordon: New Canvas (Chose Commune, 2022) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68e75b488a5f5c35835986/27aa7a31-2b3e-4a3d-a1cf-a1d477bacfd0/Screen+Shot+2022-07-14+at+10.11.30+AM.png Writing - Susan Thompson "The Black Dada Reader: Coming into Being," in Performing Documents: Modes of Assembling (Center for Book Arts, 2022) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68e75b488a5f5c35835986/37641738-8ae3-4d6e-bc33-f408408a92ac/Untitled+design-2.png Writing - Susan Thompson "The Final Ramp: Addressing Fascism in 'Italian Futurism' at the Guggenheim Museum," in Curating Fascism: Exhibitions and Memory from Mussolini to Today (Bloomsbury, 2022), with Vivien Greene https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68e75b488a5f5c35835986/9063d6ed-6045-4db9-85e1-97710c963444/Untitled+design.png Writing - Susan Thompson “Motherhood in the work of Deana Lawson,” in Black Matrilineage, Photography, and Representation: Another Way of Knowing (Leuven University Press, 2022) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68e75b488a5f5c35835986/4f509f6d-e1a1-4c11-8b16-863d2fab61f6/IMG_1990.jpg Writing - Susan Thompson "Amplitude," in Angela Heisch: Burgeon & Remain (Pippy Houldsworth, 2022) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68e75b488a5f5c35835986/ed0359f9-1037-4b96-affe-6bdd6d4432a2/IMG_0977.JPG Writing - Susan Thompson “Felipe Baeza” and "George Dureau," in Prospect.5 New Orleans: Yesterday we said tomorrow (Rizzoli Electa, 2021) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68e75b488a5f5c35835986/a8dad999-3518-4206-8fc5-86145b325106/IMG_7660.JPG Writing - Susan Thompson Ghada Amer (Skira, 2021) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68e75b488a5f5c35835986/654ca1cd-c263-4e77-b8d8-4bf596f8e465/Untitled+design-2.png Writing - Susan Thompson Louise Bonnet: Vagabond (Nino Mier, 2021) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68e75b488a5f5c35835986/fbe0bd88-1244-4144-ae3b-976aeb7f6a35/IMG_6037.JPG Writing - Susan Thompson “Mernet Larsen: Inversions,” in Mernet Larsen (Kerbler Verlag, 2021) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68e75b488a5f5c35835986/1610741221252-7CUXI12D5YR2UQQOXBLE/Willis.png Writing - Susan Thompson “Critical Fabulation: Simone Leigh in conversation with Susan Thompson,” Ursula, Fall 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68e75b488a5f5c35835986/1610743118887-21LW8240VFVDX7I0IS6F/Weaver.png Writing - Susan Thompson “Grace Weaver: Theater of Public Life,” (James Cohan, July 2020) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68e75b488a5f5c35835986/1610742888854-06V7FQ5SYXM13MXZ9QL8/Weems.jpg Writing - Susan Thompson “Carrie Mae Weems,” in Guggenheim Museum Collection: A to Z (Guggenheim, 2019) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68e75b488a5f5c35835986/1610742951021-DIZ095SFY5CIJBJM8HVT/HBP2018.jpg Writing - Susan Thompson The Hugo Boss Prize 2018, ed. Susan Thompson (Guggenheim, 2018) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68e75b488a5f5c35835986/1610743534046-YI6L0206USN95J0G6E2B/Vo.jpg Writing - Susan Thompson “Exhibitions,” in Danh Vo: Take My Breath Away (Guggenheim, 2018) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68e75b488a5f5c35835986/1610743710198-1UA6Q60GO7IR8MUSQ9O0/MARK-DION-2018-03.jpg Writing - Susan Thompson “Interview with Mark Dion,” in The Incomplete Writings of Mark Dion. Selected Interviews, Fragments, and Miscellany (Museum De Domijnen, Sittard, Netherlands, 2017) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68e75b488a5f5c35835986/1610743671576-707HDPA22TWWPK34BXRT/Black-Dada_grande.jpg Writing - Susan Thompson “The Black Dada Reader: Coming into Being,” in Adam Pendleton: Black Dada Reader (Walther König Books, 2017) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68e75b488a5f5c35835986/1610743515066-239VWIE417V8TM7K45DH/visionaries.jpg Writing - Susan Thompson “Hilla Rebay’s ‘Unrivalled Collages,’” in Visionaries: Creating a Modern Guggenheim (Guggenheim, 2017) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68e75b488a5f5c35835986/1610743870988-D9TETFCZNN47MU7GF4BN/hbp2016.jpg Writing - Susan Thompson “20 Years,” in The Hugo Boss Prize 2016, ed. Katherine Brinson and Susan Thompson (Guggenheim, 2016) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68e75b488a5f5c35835986/1610743898135-3B3Z09RPBIFE2LZTUVJ5/chan.jpg Writing - Susan Thompson “‘Full-Bodied Experience’: Paul Chan and the Story of Badlands Unlimited,” Guggenheim: Checklist, Mar. 4, 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68e75b488a5f5c35835986/1610743923013-B8WFT64WBOL8OMKL70C0/photopoetics.jpg Writing - Susan Thompson Artist essays in Photo-Poetics: An Anthology (Guggenheim, 2015) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68e75b488a5f5c35835986/1610743944470-U1BOZPVIHGA89BYUM3BU/whitney.jpg Writing - Susan Thompson “Gabriel Orozco,” “Charles White,” and “Francesca Woodman,” in Whitney Handbook of the Collection (Yale University Press, 2015) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68e75b488a5f5c35835986/1610743905041-Y6TQ2NL3WOTU4FDQ03JC/futurism.jpg Writing - Susan Thompson “Futurism, Fascism, and Mino Somenzi's Journals of the 1930s: Futurismo, Sant'Elia, and Artecrazia” in Italian Futurism, 1909-1944: Reconstructing the Universe (Guggenheim, 2014) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68e75b488a5f5c35835986/1610743890890-Q5AF9NNVH7MCU0CB57N4/cattelan.jpg Writing - Susan Thompson Artwork entries in Maurizio Cattelan: All (Guggenheim, 2011/2016) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68e75b488a5f5c35835986/1610744105345-BBSBR97TOUGBL6HCXOD8/hollingsworth.jpg Writing - Susan Thompson Benjamin Hollingsworth: Grace (2012) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68e75b488a5f5c35835986/1610743917425-F2UY3VCQI9AAQLI00GCC/luminous.jpg Writing - Susan Thompson Artist essays in The Luminous Interval: The D.Daskalopoulos Collection (Guggenheim, 2011)