Peter Eleey Appointed Curator of P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center
By STAN PARCHIN
April 16, 2010
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| Peter Eleey. Photograph by Cameron Wittig. |
P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center announced today the appointment of Peter Eleey as Curator, effective July 1, 2010. Currently the Visual Arts Curator at the Walker Art Center since 2007, Mr. Eleey will organize special exhibitions, arrange public programs, oversee the staff and help develop long-range plans at this affiliate of the Museum of Modern Art.
ExperiencePeter Eleey was a curator and producer at Creative Time in New York from 2002 to 2007. He organized many multidisciplinary projects and events, including: Cai Guo-Qiang's
Light Cycle (2003), a pyrotechnic event in Central Park;
Jenny Holzer: For the City (2004), a series of airplane banners over the Hudson River and light projections at various New York sites;
The Plain of Heaven (2005), an exhibition in a vacant meatpacking warehouse inspired by the redesign of the High Line;
Strange Powers (2006), a presentation of works made to have a paranormal effect on the world;
Mike Nelson: A Psychic Vacuum (2007), a site-specific installation at the Essex Street Market; and
Doug Aitken: Sleepwalkers (2007).
At the Walker Art Center, Eleey acquired works by Tomma Abts, Paul Chan, Trisha Donnelly, Pierre Huyghe, Mark Manders, Kris Martin, Susan Philips and others. others. He expanded the museum’s conceptual holdings with key pieces by Robert Barry, Stanley Brouwn, Stephen Kaltenbach and Adrian Piper. Eleey organized the exhibitions
Trisha Brown: So That the Audience Does Not Know Whether I Have Stopped Dancing (2008),
The Quick and the Dead (2009) and
The Talent Show (2010).
Klaus Biesenbach, Director of P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, said, “Through his excellent work at the Walker Art Center, and previously in New York at Creative Time, Peter Eleey has emerged as one of the most talented curators of his generation. He is thoughtful and inventive and has demonstrated a strong commitment to artists in his work."