Mia Locks

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Mia Locks is a contemporary art curator and museum leader.

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Professional Experience

Mia Locks is an independent curator and writer based in Los Angeles.[ citation needed ] She co-founded and leads Museums Moving Forward, a data-driven research initiative to support equity in the art museum sector, funded by Ford Foundation and Mellon Foundation.[ citation needed ] She serves on the board of Clockshop, an arts organization in Los Angeles. She is also an editorial advisor on the podcasts "Hope & Dread: The Tectonic Shifts of Power in Art." [1] " and The Art World: What If...?!" [2]

Previously, Locks worked as a curator at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and MoMA PS1, New York.[ citation needed ] Most recently, she was Senior Curator and Head of New Initiatives at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.[ citation needed ] Prior to MOCA, Locks was co-curator of the 2017 Whitney Biennial, with Christopher Y. Lew. [3] At MoMA PS1, she organized exhibitions including Math Bass: Off the Clock (2015); IM Heung-soon: Reincarnation (2015); Samara Golden: The Flat Side of the Knife (2014); and The Little Things Could Be Dearer (2014). [4] She also co-curated Greater New York (2015), with Douglas Crimp, Peter Eleey, and Thomas J. Lax. [5] As an independent curator, she organized Ulrike Müller: or both (2019) at Moore College of Art & Design in Philadelphia, and Cruising the Archive: Queer Art and Culture in Los Angeles, 1945–1980 (2011), with David Evans Frantz, at the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives in Los Angeles, as part of the Getty’s inaugural Pacific Standard Time initiative. [6]

Writing and Teaching

Lock's writing has appeared in Artnet, Mousse , Afterall , Art Journal, and several exhibition catalogues including texts on artists such as Math Bass, Samara Golden, Shara Hughes, William Pope.L, and Carrie Moyer. [7] [8] [9] [10] She edited the first monograph of Samara Golden's work, The Flat Side of the Knife, published by MoMA PS1 in 2014. [11] She served on the faculty of the M.A. program in Curatorial Practice at the School of Visual Arts, New York from 2017-2019. [12]

Education

Locks received a BA from Brown University and an MA from the University of Southern California (USC). She was a 2018 fellow at the Center for Curatorial Leadership in New York City.[ citation needed ]

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References

  1. ↑ "Hope/Dread — All Art& Posts".
  2. ↑ The Art World: What If...?! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-art-world-what-if/id1203133627
  3. ↑ Russeth, Andrew (4 November 2015). "Christopher Lew and Mia Locks Will Organize the 2017 Whitney Biennial". ARTnews.
  4. ↑ "The Whitney Announces Curators for 2017 Biennial". whitney.org.
  5. ↑ "MoMA PS1: Exhibitions: Greater New York". momaps1.org.
  6. ↑ "Cruising the Archive: Queer Art and Culture in Los Angeles, 1945-1980 | ONE Archives". one.usc.edu.
  7. ↑ Locks, Mia. "8 Things You Can Do Right Now to Create Change in Your Museum Workplace" https://news.artnet.com/art-world/8-things-you-can-do-right-now-to-create-change-in-your-museum-workplace-2229355
  8. ↑ https://www.miandn.com/attachment/en/63936142fcaaf75aef06bd82/Press/58a4b1060ed85044286b538a
  9. ↑ Locks, Mia. "'suddenly: where we live now' at the Pomona College Museum of Art • Online • Afterall". www.afterall.org.
  10. ↑ "The Body is a Location: Math Bass in Conversation with Mia Locks." https://artjournal.collegeart.org/?p=6704
  11. ↑ "Samara Golden Art Monographs and Museum Exhibition Catalogs". www.artbook.com.
  12. ↑ "Call for applications: MA Curatorial Practice - Announcements - Art & Education". www.artandeducation.net.
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