Zoe Kahr to Lead Memphis Brooks Museum of Art
The Memphis Brooks Museum of Artwork board of trustees introduced Zoe Kahr because the establishment’s subsequent director starting on November 1. Kahr will depart the Los Angeles County Museum of Artwork (LACMA), the place she has served as deputy director in command of curatorial and planning since 2010. In her new function, Kahr will oversee the museum’s transfer from its longtime dwelling within the metropolis’s Overton Park neighborhood to its brand-new $150 million downtown waterfront digs, designed by Herzog & de Meuron.
“I’m becoming a member of the Brooks Museum and the higher Memphis arts group at a uniquely thrilling time,” acknowledged Kahr. Citing town’s widely known cultural historical past, she famous that “its significance as an arts capital will solely develop because the plans for the way forward for the Brooks Museum transfer ahead. I’m honored to guide the museum by way of this time of large transformation.”
Throughout her tenure at LACMA, Kahr produced roughly 300 exhibitions and cast partnerships with arts establishments in Asia, Australia, Latin America, and the Center East. She inaugurated LACMA’s “Native Entry” program, which brings artwork to broader audiences by way of touring reveals at museums within the area, and oversaw the museum’s DEIA (range, fairness, inclusion, and accessibility) initiative. Previous to her arrival on the Los Angeles museum, Kahr served as assistant director of exhibition planning on the Philadelphia Museum of Artwork. She holds a doctorate of philosophy from College School London; Kahr earlier earned a grasp’s in enterprise administration and a BA in artwork historical past from Yale College.
“From our first assembly with Zoe, it was clear that she was the proper particular person for this function: eminently certified, universally well-regarded amongst her friends, and excited to guide our museum ahead,” stated Brooks Museum board chair Carl Particular person. “Kahr’s deep curatorial expertise, international perspective, and managerial acumen make her ideally fitted to this place, and on behalf of all the Memphis arts group, I look ahead to welcoming her to the Brooks Museum.”
Kahr succeeds Emily Ballew Neff, who introduced her departure from the function in 2021 and shortly thereafter took up the place of director of the San Antonio Museum of Artwork. Mark Resnick, the museum’s deputy director and chief working officer, will proceed as appearing govt director within the interim previous Kahr’s November arrival.
