FotoFocus Biennial Opening Keynote Lecture and Reception

Roxana Marcoci is Senior Curator of Photography at The Museum of Modern Art, where she focuses on major acquisitions and exhibitions of modern and contemporary art. She holds a Ph.D. in Art History, Theory, and Criticism from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. The recipient of the Center for Curatorial Leadership Fellowship in 2011, Marcoci also chairs the Central and Eastern European group of MoMA’s C-MAP (Contemporary and Modern Art Perspectives in a Global World).  She curated or co-curated major exhibitions of the work of Zoe Leonard (2015), Christopher Williams (2014), Taryn Simon (2012), Sanja Iveković (2011), Olafur Eliasson (2008), and Thomas Demand (2005), as well as thematic surveys including Transmissions: Art in Eastern Europe and Latin America, 1960–1980 (2015), The Shaping of New Visions: Photography, Film, Photobook (2012), Staging Action: Performance in Photography since 1960 (2011), Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography (2011), and The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today (2010). These exhibitions are accompanied by award-winning publications. Other exhibitions Marcoci curated focused on emerging artists within MoMA’s Projects and New Photography series, including Ocean of Images (2015). Marcoci is visiting professor in the graduate program at Yale University. She has written extensively on postwar and contemporary art, and is a contributor to Aperture, Art in America, Art Journal, and Mousse, among other journals. She is co-editor of Photography at MoMA: 1960 to Now (2015), a comprehensive new history of the expanded field of contemporary photography.