NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art announces the promotion of Sarah Suzuki to Curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints. Suzuki, who has served as Associate Curator in the department since 2010, began her career at the Museum as a research assistant in 1998.

“Sarah has an acute understanding of the Museum's collection across periods, mediums, and departments. Her work consistently prompts us to question assumed historical narratives and has greatly contributed to the enrichment and diversification our holdings and programs,” said Christophe Cherix, the Robert Lehman Foundation Chief Curator of Drawings and Prints. “I am delighted to see Sarah taking a more senior role at the Museum.”

At MoMA, Suzuki has organized critically acclaimed exhibitions that reexamine the Museum’s collection, including Soldier, Spectre, Shaman: The Figure and the Second World War, with Assistant Curator Lucy Gallun (2015); Mind and Matter: Alternative Abstractions, 1940s to Now (2010); and Wunderkammer: A Century of Curiosities (2008). In 2011, as part of Abstract Expressionist New York, she organized Rock Paper Scissors and Ideas Not Theories: Artists and the Club with Jodi Hauptman, Senior Curator. Her monographic exhibitions include Jean Dubuffet: Soul of the Underground (2014), with Hauptman; The Paris of Toulouse-Lautrec: Prints and Posters (2014); and Wait, Later This Will All Be Nothing: Editions by Dieter Roth (2013).

Her deep engagement with contemporary art can be seen in the current exhibition Scenes for a New Heritage: Contemporary Art from the Collection (co-organized with Quentin Bajac, Chief Curator, Department of Photography; Ana Janevski, Associate Curator, Department of Media and Performance Art; and Eva Respini, now Chief Curator, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston); and in solo projects with Meiro Koizumi (2013); Yin Xiuzhen (2010); Song Dong (2009, with Barbara London); and Gert and Uwe Tobias (2008), among others.

In addition to her record of exhibitions, Suzuki has ushered in numerous important acquisitions, is a founding member of the C-MAP (Contemporary and Modern Art Perspectives) East Asia research group, and the lead curatorial liaison for the Museum’s SPRZNY collaboration with UNIQLO.

Among Suzuki’s publications are The Paris of Toulouse-Lautrec: Prints and Posters (2014), Wait, Later This Will All Be Nothing: Editions by Dieter Roth (2013), and What Is a Print? (2011). She has contributed numerous essays to catalogues, scholarly journals, and other publications; has lectured widely on modern and contemporary art; and has participated in numerous symposia, conferences, and panels. She received a BA from Dartmouth College and an MA from Columbia University.