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Drew Sawyer, Whitney Museum’s new Sondra Gilman Curator of Photography. (Photo by John Edmonds)
Drew Sawyer, a curator at the Brooklyn Museum, has been appointed the Whitney Museum’s Sondra Gilman Curator of Photography starting this July.
Elisabeth Sussman, the curator who had long held that post, is set to remain on the Whitney staff in an as yet unnamed capacity, as she completes an exhibition focused on artist, experimental filmmaker, and music ethnologist Harry Smith, set to open this fall.
At the Brooklyn Museum, Sawyer’s exhibitions included a recent retrospective for Jimmy DeSana, a photographer who was a key member of the 1980s art scene before he passed away of AIDS-related causes in 1990. Sawyer's latest exhibition,"Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines," is set to open this November, which the Brooklyn Museum is billing as one of the largest museum shows dedicated to art zines.
Before joining the Brooklyn Museum, Sawyer had been at the Columbus Museum of Art in Ohio, where he co-organized "Art after Stonewall: 1969–1989".
Other shows curated by Sawyer include celebrated solos for John Edmonds and Liz Johnson Artur, both at the Brooklyn Museum, which hired him in 2018.
"Drew is one of the liveliest and most penetrating minds in the field of photography and contemporary art today," Scott Rothkopf, incoming director of the Whitney, said in a statement released by the museum.
At the Whitney, Sawyer will spearhead the acquisition committee devoted to works of photography. With drawings and prints curator Kim Conaty, he will also facilitate the Sondra Gilman Study Center, named for the Whitney’s longest-serving trustee and home to the museum’s more than 19,000 prints, drawings, and photographs.
"I am excited to be joining the team at the Whitney at a pivotal time in the institution’s history, and I look forward to continuing their work in championing living artists and in redefining discourses in U.S. American photography and art through its renowned collection and programming," Sawyer said.
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