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Since 2010, Helen Molesworth was served as the chief curator at Boston’s Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA). She arrives at the ICA after heading the department of modern and contemporary art at the Harvard Art Museum, where she organized a number of noteworthy exhibitions, including Long Life Cool White: Photographs by Moyra Davey and ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987-1993. As guest curator at Harvard University's Carpenter Center for the Arts, she organized Corbu Pops, an installation by William Pope.L; Paul Chan: Three Easy Pieces; and Felix Gonzales-Torres: "Untitled" (Placebo - Landscape - for Roni), among other exhibitions. 

Prior to joining Harvard, Molesworth was chief curator of exhibitions at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio, overseeing the center's exhibitions, programs, and publications. There she co-curated the first United States retrospective of Luc Tuymans as well as the critically acclaimed Part Object, Part Sculpture. She also served as curator of contemporary art at the Baltimore Museum of Art from 2000 to 2002, where she organized the show, Work Ethic. From 1997 to 1999, she was director and curator of the Amelie A. Wallace Gallery at State University of New York (SUNY), Old Westbury. Molesworth also served as senior critic at the Yale School of Art and has held teaching positions at the Bard Center for Curatorial Studies; SUNY, Old Westbury; and the Cooper Union School of Art. She was a co-founding editor of Documents, a magazine of contemporary visual culture, and is the author of numerous articles appearing in publications such as Art Journal, Artforum, Documents, and October. She received a Ph.D. in the history of art from Cornell University in 1997. 

Links:

-       Work Ethic catalog: http://www.psupress.org/books/titles/0-271-02334-1.html

-       Long Life Cool White: Photographs by Moyra Davey catalog: http://yalepress.yale.edu/book.asp?isbn=9780300136463

-       Part Object, Part Sculpture catalog: http://www.psupress.org/books/titles/0-271-02855-6.html

-       ACT UP New York exhibition at White Columns: http://www.whitecolumns.org/view.html?type=exhibitions&id=524

-       ACT UP New York exhibition at Harvard: http://www.ves.fas.harvard.edu/ACTUP.html

-       Interview about ACT UP New York: http://artjournal.collegeart.org/?p=2255

-       On Corbu Pops: http://digboston.com/experience/2009/03/19744/