Eileen Jeng Lynch Named to Top Curatorial Post at Bronx Museum of the Arts
The Bronx Museum of the Arts has introduced that it has employed Eileen Jeng Lynch as its new director of curatorial affairs, efficient August 1. Jeng Lynch succeeds Antonio Sergio Bessa, who departed in 2019 and now serves because the museum’s chief curator emeritus. She arrives to the museum with a powerful background in politically and environmentally tinged curation and in neighborhood outreach, which meshes with the Bronx Museum’s deal with social justice. Jeng Lynch is the curator of “Abigail Deville: Bronx Heavens,” which opens on the Bronx Museum October 12 and runs by way of April 9, 2023.
“I’m assured that her curatorial acumen, in tandem along with her intensive experience stewarding residency packages and neighborhood initiatives, can be instrumental in charting a course for the subsequent fifty years of the Bronx Museum,” stated museum director Klaudio Rodriguez in a press release.
Jeng Lynch was beforehand senior curator of visible arts on the Bronx’s Wave Hill, a public backyard and cultural middle that often hosts exhibitions and commissions. On this function, she organized solo exhibitions for rising artists, thematic group exhibitions, and the residency program, curating various exhibits that took local weather change and the atmosphere as their theme. Her most up-to-date effort in that regard, “Water Shortage: Perpetual Thirst,” investigating entry to wash water, is on view at Wave Hill by way of August 28. Previous to coming to Wave Hill, Jeng Lynch labored at RxArt, Sperone Westwater, and the Artwork Institute of Chicago’s Division of Up to date Artwork. She earned her MA from the Faculty of the Artwork Institute of Chicago and her BA from Syracuse College.
“By an artist-centered and values-driven method, I’m dedicated to broadening entry to the humanities by way of exhibitions and programming which are responsive and neighborhood engaged,” stated Jeng Lynch in a press release. “Because the Bronx Museum has a longstanding historical past of dynamic packages that give voice to the distinctive people who comprise the area people, I’m excited to hitch the workforce and help the Museum’s continued success each domestically and internationally.”
The Bronx Museum, which celebrates its fiftieth anniversary this 12 months, is present process a $21 million enlargement that’s anticipated to be accomplished in 2025.
