Eva Respini, Deputy Director and Chief Curator at Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art, will discuss the work of contemporary artist Simone Leigh, the first Black woman to represent the U.S. in the Venice Biennale. Ms. Respini, co-commissioner of the U.S. pavilion at the 2022 Biennale, will describe the process of mounting these monumental works and the artistic and cultural significance of Simone Leigh.

Presented by Eva Respini, Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs and Barbara Lee Chief Curator at the ICA Boston. Before joining the ICA as Barbara Lee Chief Curator in 2015, Respini was Curator at the Museum of Modern Art for over a decade.  

Respini is curator and co-commissioner for the 2022 U.S. Pavilion’s historic presentation of Simone Leigh in the 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. She is currently organizing the first mid-career survey of Simone Leigh’s work, opening at the ICA in April 2023, before its tour across the country.  

Specializing in global contemporary art and image-making practices, Respini has organized at the ICA such critically acclaimed group exhibitions as Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today (2018); When Home Won’t Let You Stay: Migration through Contemporary Art (2019); and ambitious solo presentations such as Deana Lawson (2021); Firelei Báez (2021) and John Akomfrah: Purple (2019).  Respini has been a visiting lecturer, critic, and speaker at a number of universities, among them Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, School of Visual Arts, Columbia University and Yale University’s School of Art. She has published numerous books and catalogues and her writing appears in museum publications and periodicals. 

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