Eungie Joo is Curator and Head of Contemporary Art at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, where she organized Kara Walker’s ambitious public commission, Fortuna and the Immortality Garden (Machine). At SFMOMA she has organized the groups exhibitions SOFT POWER and Shifting the Silence as well as solo exhibitions of new work by Etel Adnan, Charles Gaines, Mary Lovelace O’Neal, Toyin Ojih Odutola, and Wu Tsang, among others. Joo has worked as Artistic Director of the 5th Anyang Public Art Project/APAP 5 (2016); Director of Art and Cultural Programs at Instituto Inhotim; Curator of Sharjah Biennial 12: The past, the present, the possible (2015); Curator of the New Museum Generational Triennial: The Ungovernables (2012); and Commissioner of the Korean Pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale,where she presented Condensation: Haegue Yang (2009). As Director and Curator of Education and Public Programs at the New Museum from 2007-2012, Joo led the Museum as Hub initiative and edited the publications The Art Spaces Directory (2012) and Rethinking Contemporary Art and Multicultural Education (2009). From 2003-2007, Joo was founding curator of the Gallery at REDCAT in Los Angeles. She has published widely, including recent essays on the work of Cinthia Marcelle, Tanya Lukin Linklater, Tuan Andrew Nguyen, and Adrián Villar Rojas. Joo earned her PhD in Ethnic Studies from the University of California at Berkeley.