Join us as we host Eva Respini. She is the Barbara Lee Chief Curator at the ICA/Boston, where she has been leading the vision of the program since 2015. Prior to the ICA, she was Curator at the Museum of Modern Art, where she organized numerous exhibitions of contemporary art and photography. Under her leadership, the ICA's visual arts program has seen increased rigor, diversity, and popular appeal. She led the significant expansion of ICA's program in 2018 with the opening of the Watershed, a 15,000-square-foot, formerly condemned industrial space, now open for audiences to encounter and experience large-scale and immersive artworks. In keeping with ICA’s history to champion the most innovative art and ideas of our time, her work has brought attention to under-recognized artists or little-explored themes and practices in the art world.

Specializing in global contemporary art and image-making practices, Respini recently curated the critically acclaimed exhibitions 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 John Akomfrah: Purple (2019); Huma Bhabha: They Live (2019); William Forsythe: Choreographic Objects (2018); Liz Deschenes (2016); and Nalini Malani (2016). Her other notable exhibitions include a major retrospective of Cindy Sherman (2012), and the surveys Walid Raad (2015) and Robert Heinecken (2014). Respini's curatorial leadership and commitment to curatorial craft at every level of exhibition-making is evident in all her curatorial projects