Colleagues & Friends: Kristen Lubben
Tuesday, December 17, 2019
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM
Emigrant Fine Art and Finance
6 East 43rd Street, New York, NY
$5 Members | $15 Non-Members
Kristen Lubben, Executive Director of Magnum Foundation, is joined by Danielle Jackson, Fellow in Residence at NYU's Center for Experimental Humanities, and Yukiko Yamagata, Curatorial and Deputy Director of the Open Society Foundations Culture and Art Program.
About Kristen Lubben
Kristen Lubben is a curator, writer, and editor whose work explores the relationships between photography, art, and politics. Since 1997, Lubben has been a curator at the International Center of Photography in New York, where she has curated over twenty exhibitions, including two triennials of contemporary photography and video, monographic surveys of socially engaged artists, and shows drawn from her research in historical archives, including the ICP’s collections of the work of Robert Capa and Gerda Taro. She is the author of numerous publications, including the award-winning Magnum Contact Sheets.
About Danielle Jackson
Danielle Jackson is a critic, researcher, and arts administrator. As the co-founder and former co-director of the Bronx Documentary Center, a photography gallery and educational space, she helped conceive, develop and implement the organization’s mission and programs. Formerly, she ran the Cultural Department at Magnum Photos NY. She has taught courses in photography and visual culture at the Museum of Modern Art, International Center of Photography, Parsons, and Stanford in New York. Her writing and reporting has appeared in artnet and Artsy.
About Yukiko Yamagata
Yukiko Yamagata is curatorial and deputy director for the Open Society Foundations’ Culture and Art program, which supports artists, cultural activists, cultural spaces, and their leaders who are working across a range of artistic disciplines to advance justice in communities and regions throughout the world. Prior to working with the Culture and Art program, she was the acting director of the Open Society Documentary Photography Project. As a curator and grant maker, she has worked and collaborated with artists, documentarians, media makers, journalists, activists, and organizations throughout Africa, Asia, Eurasia, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. As curator for the Open Society’s Moving Walls exhibition series, she has worked on over 20 exhibitions, including most recently, Watching You, Watching Me (2014-18), Here We Are (2017-2018), and Another Way Home (2018-2020).
She has over two decades of experience working at the intersection of culture, art, photography, and social change. Prior to joining Open Society in 2005, she worked at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, conducting research for the In Motion: The African American-Migration Experience exhibition, book, website, and digital archive. She began her curatorial career in 1999 at the Whitney Museum, where she coordinated a range of photography exhibitions featuring work by Roni Horn, Ryan McGinley, Susan Meiselas, Vik Muniz, Michael Rovner, and Lorna Simpson.