Jo-Anne Birnie-Danzker

Jo-Anne Birnie-Danzker is a curator, writer, and cultural historian. She is the former Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Biennale of Sydney, Vancouver Art Gallery, Museum Villa Stuck (Munich) and Frye Art Museum (Seattle). While in these positions Birnie-Danzker served as curator and co-curator of more than 100 exhibitions including Shanghai Modern: 1919 – 1945, co-curated with Ken Lum and Zheng Shengtian; Art of Tomorrow, co-curated with Brigitte Salmen and Karole Vail for the Museum Villa Stuck and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York); and The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa 1945–1994, curated by Okwui Enwezor with Exhibition Direction by Birnie-Danzker, presented at the Museum Villa Stuck (Munich), Martin-Gropius-Bau (Berlin), MCA (Chicago) and MoMA PS1 (New York).

Participation

2021