Johanna Burton

The New Museum of Contemporary Art

June–July 2015

Johanna Burton is Keith Haring Director and Curator of Education and Public Engagement at the New Museum in New York. Burton has curated or co-curated a number of exhibitions, including Sherrie Levine: Mayhem at the Whitney Museum in 2011 (with Elisabeth Sussman); Anti-Establishment at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College in 2012; Take It Or Leave It: Institution, Image, Ideology at the Hammer Museum in 2013 (with Anne Ellegood); and XFR STN at the New Museum in 2013. Burton was director of the Graduate Program at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College from 2010-2013 and associate director and senior faculty member at the Whitney Independent Study Program (2008-2010). While at the Clark, she will be working on a project that examines the role of exhibition-as-object, as well as researching materials for a volume dedicated to the subject of transgender theory after feminism.