Joan Young
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
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New York, NY 10128-0173
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Fri 10 am–5:45 pm
Sat 10 am–7:45 pm
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Some galleries may close prior to 5:45 pm Sun–Wed and Fri (7:45 pm Sat)
Please note: All ramps and additional galleries of the museum are currently closed due to the installation of John Chamberlain: Choices, opening on February 24. The admission price is reduced at this time, and advance tickets are not available.
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Associate Curator of Contemporary Art and Manager of Curatorial Affairs
Guggenheim curator since 1995
Joan Young has organized exhibitions by Hugo Boss Prize winners Tacita Dean, Emily Jacir, and Rirkrit Tiravanija for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and curated Phoebe Washburn: Regulated Fool’s Milk Meadow and Julie Mehretu: Gray Area for Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin.
She has also provided curatorial support for the exhibitions Robert Rauschenberg: A Retrospective; The Hugo Boss Prize 1998; Andreas Slominski; Postmedia: Conceptual Photography in the Guggenheim Museum Collection; Lawrence Weiner: NACH ALLES/AFTER ALL; Matthew Barney: The Cremaster Cycle; Moving Pictures: Contemporary Photography and Video from the Guggenheim Museum Collections; Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated): Art from 1951 to the Present; Douglas Gordon’s The VANITY of Allegory; Marina Abramović: Seven Easy Pieces; and All in the present must be transformed: Matthew Barney and Joseph Beuys; theanyspacewhatever; and Intervals: Kitty Kraus.
Young has an MA in the History of Art from the University of Texas at Austin.