Massimiliano Gioni is the Artistic Director of both the New Museum in New York and the Nicola Trussardi Foundation in Milan. He has curated a range of international exhibitions, including the 55th Venice Biennale (2013); 10,000 Lives, the 8th Gwangju Biennial; The Generational: Younger Than Jesus, the first New Museum Triennial (co-curated with Lauren Cornell and Laura Hoptman) (2009); the 4th Berlin Biennale (co-curated with Maurizio Cattelan and Ali Subotnick) (2006); and Manifesta 5 (co-curated with Marta Kuzma) (2004). At the New Museum, he has organized solo presentations of artists including Lynda Benglis, Judy Chicago, Nicole Eisenman, Theaster Gates, Sarah Lucas, Chris Ofili, Faith Ringgold, and many others, and at the Trussardi Foundation he has curated various solo shows and public art projects with, among others, Paweł Althamer, Tacita Dean, Fischli and Weiss, Paul McCarthy, Paola Pivi, Anri Sala, and Tino Sehgal.
More recently, he curated The Warmth of Other Suns. Stories of Global Displacement in collaboration with the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. (2019) and Appearance Stripped Bare: Desire and the Object in the Work of Marcel Duchamp and Jeff Koons, Even at Museo Jumex (2019). He also served on the advisory committee for the posthumous realization of Okwui Enwezor's exhibition Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America (2021). In 2024 he curated the survey of Pipilotti Rist's work in Doha, Qatar, and in 2021 he organized George Condo: The Picture Gallery, the artist's first retrospective in China, at the Long Museum in Shanghai. He frequently collaborates with the Aishti Foundation in Beirut where he has curated numerous exhibitions since 2015.
He has also contributed to a variety of publications including Artforum, Flash Art (for which he served as US editor from 1999 to 2003), Frieze, Parkett, and Tate Etc. He directed the independent art magazines The Wrong Times and Charley with Maurizio Cattelan and Ali Subotnick. He is the commissioning editor of 2000 Words, a series of monographic books published by the Dakis Joannou Collection and Deste Foundation.
