Lauren Haynes

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Lauren Haynes is an American curator who is head curator of Governors Island, in New York City.

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Before assuming her current position in 2024, she was director of artist initiatives and curator of contemporary art at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and the Momentary in Arkansas; senior curator of contemporary art at the Nasher Museum of Art; and director of curatorial affairs and programs at the Queens Museum.

Early life and education

Haynes was born in Tennessee, and moved to the Bronx, New York City when she was about twelve years old. [1] She studied at Oberlin College, where she received a bachelor's degree in art history. [2] At Oberlin, she worked at the Allen Memorial Art Museum, which was then directed by American art historian Sharon Patton. Haynes recalled seeing Patton – an African-American woman and scholar in African-American art history – as an inspiration for her to take an art class and eventually study art history. [3]

Career

After graduating, Haynes worked temporary office positions and considered a job in the legal department of a real estate company before she received an offer to become a departmental assistant at the Brooklyn Museum. Less than a year into her work at the Brooklyn Museum she was offered a job at the Studio Museum in Harlem. [3] She joined the Studio Museum in 2006, where she would work for a decade starting as a curatorial assistant and later as associate curator of the museum's permanent collection. She curated dozens of exhibitions both at the Studio Museum and at other institutions in New York City, including shows on the works of Romare Bearden and Carrie Mae Weems at the Studio Museum. [3] [4] Her work on the museum's artist-in-residence program was reported to have "impacted the career trajectories of numerous artists who have gone on to have great successes worldwide." [5]

In 2016, Haynes became curator of contemporary art at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and the curator of visual arts at the Momentary. Exhibitions she has curated at Crystal Bridges include The Beyond: Georgia O'Keeffe and Contemporary Art (2018), Crystals in Art: Ancient to Today (2019), as well as the Focus section of the 2019 Armory Show. [6] [7] She also coordinated the first exhibition of Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power (2018) in the United States and led the curatorial team on State of the Art (2020). [8] In 2019, it was announced that Haynes and independent curator Teka Selman would curate the inaugural edition of the Tennessee Triennial for Contemporary Art in 2021; [6] [3] the event was later postponed from its original date to 2023 without Haynes or Selman. [9]

In 2020, Haynes was named director of artist initiatives and curator of contemporary art at Crystal Bridges and the Momentary. [10] In 2021, she was appointed the Patsy R. and Raymond D. Nasher Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, [8] then director of Curatorial Affairs and Programs at the Queens Museum in 2022, [11] and then head curator and vice-president for arts and culture at Governors Island in 2024. [12]

Other activities

In 2018, Haynes was a member of the jury that selected Rodney McMillian for the inaugural Suzanne Deal Booth Art Prize. [13]

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  1. ↑ "Culture Talk: Curator Lauren Haynes on Bringing the Colorful, Abstract Paintings of Alma Thomas to Harlem's Studio Museum" . Retrieved June 2, 2020.
  2. ↑ Gill, Todd (August 17, 2016). "Lauren Haynes joins Crystal Bridges as curator of contemporary art". Fayetteville Flyer . Retrieved February 28, 2020.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Hightower, Lara Jo (March 1, 2020). "Lauren Haynes: Determined to diversify". Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette . Retrieved March 14, 2021.
  4. ↑ "Lauren Haynes Joins Crystal Bridges Museum as Curator of Contemporary Art". Artforum . August 16, 2016. Retrieved February 28, 2020.
  5. ↑ Robinson, Shantay (June 22, 2017). "As Flux Project's first visiting curator, Lauren Haynes speaks candidly about the challenges of curation". ArtsATL. Retrieved March 14, 2021.
  6. 1 2 Selvin, Claire (June 13, 2019). "Tennessee Triennial for Contemporary Art Names Curators for Inaugural Edition". ARTnews . Retrieved February 28, 2020.
  7. ↑ "Lauren Haynes - CCL Class of 2018". Center for Curatorial Leadership. Retrieved February 28, 2020.
  8. 1 2 "Lauren Haynes Named Senior Curator at Nasher Museum". The Pilot . March 18, 2021. Retrieved March 22, 2021.
  9. ↑ Battaglia, Andy (February 14, 2022). "Tennessee Triennial Reimagines Plans for Inaugural Edition and Sets Sights on 2023". ARTnews . Retrieved October 30, 2024.
  10. ↑ Victoria L., Valentine (December 22, 2020). "On the Rise: 54 Curators and Arts Leaders Who Took on New Appointments in 2020". Culture Type . Retrieved February 21, 2021.
  11. ↑ Newman, Scarlett (October 23, 2023). "How Curator Lauren Haynes Gets It Done". The Cut . Retrieved October 30, 2024.
  12. ↑ Sheets, Hilarie M. (March 26, 2024). "Governors Island Taps New Head Curator". The New York Times . Retrieved October 30, 2024.
  13. ↑ Sarah Douglas and Claire Selvin (3 May 2018), New Suzanne Deal Booth/FLAG Art Foundation Prize Comes With $200,000, Placing It Among the Largest Cash Purses for Art Awards Worldwide  ARTnews .
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