Yasmil Raymond

Biography

B.F.A., The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Fine Arts)
M.A., Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (Curatorial Studies)

Yasmil Raymond is curator at Dia Art Foundation, New York. More recently, she was associate curator at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis (2004-2009) where she organized exhibitions of works by Tomás Saraceno (2009), Tino Sehgal (2007) and Kara Walker (2007, with Philippe Vergne); and the group exhibition Statements: Beuys, Flavin, Judd (2008) and Brave New Worlds (2007, with Doryun Chong). She is currently organizing the group exhibition Abstract Resistance opening in February 2010 at the Walker Art Center. Publications include: Abstract Resistance (2010, forthcoming) and Brave New Worlds (2007, edited with Doryun Chong). She has written articles and essays on Mircea Cantor, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Todd Norsten, Kiki Smith, Kara Walker, and Haegue Yang.