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Join Meg Onli, curator-at-large at the Whitney Museum of American Art, for a conversation about her curatorial practice and perspective.
Learn more about what it takes to research, plan, and create major contemporary art exhibitions through Onli’s personal experience cocurating the 2024 Whitney Biennial with Chrissie Iles, a curator at the museum. The discussion includes insights into upcoming shows as Onli looks ahead to cocurating the museum’s 2026 Roy Lichtenstein retrospective with artist Alex Da Corte and Whitney Museum of American Art director Scott Rothkopf. This will be Lichtenstein’s first New York retrospective in more than 30 years.
Onli will also speak about her writing, which focuses on the future of contemporary art, language, power structures, and race. A Q&A follows the conversation.
IMAGE CAPTIONMeg Onli, photo: Bryan Derballa.
“New York’s Whitney Museum Appoints Meg Onli as Curator-at-Large, Promotes Laura Phipps to Associate Curator,” Francesca Aton, ARTnews
Meg Onli is curator-at-large at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Onli was previously codirector and curator of the Underground Museum in Los Angeles. She also served as associate curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia. While there, Onli curated Speech/Acts (2017), Colored People Time: Mundane Futures, Quotidian Pasts, Banal Presents (2019), Jessica Vaughn: Our Primary Focus Is To Be Successful (2021), and cocurated Ulysses Jenkins: Without Your Interpretation (2021).
Cosponsored with Ohio State's Department of History of Art.
LEARNING & PUBLIC PRACTICE PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BYAmerican Electric Power FoundationCoverMyMedsHuntingtonMartha Holden Jennings Foundation
ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY Ingram-White Castle Foundation Ohio Arts Council The Ohio State University Office of Outreach & EngagementMilton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation
SUPPORT FOR LEARNING & PUBLIC PRACTICE RESIDENCIES PROVIDED BY Mike and Paige Crane
WEXNER CENTER PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BYGreater Columbus Arts Council The Wexner Family Institute of Museum and Library Services Mellon Foundation Every Page Foundation Ohio Arts Council, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts CampusParc Nationwide Foundation Ohio State’s Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme The Columbus Foundation Axium Packaging
ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY Ohio State Energy Partners Ohio History Fund/Ohio History Connection David Crane and Elizabeth Dang Melissa Gilliam and William Grobman Rebecca Perry Damsen and Ben Towle
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Meg Onli in Conversation
