CREATIVE TIME

Nato Thompson is Chief Curator at Creative Time where he has curated the last two Creative Time Summits. Since January 2007, Thompson has organized major projects for Creative Time such as co-curating with Laura Hoptman and Amy Mackie of the New Museum, Jeremy Deller’s It is What it is (2009), Democracy in America: The National Campaign (2008), Paul Chan’s acclaimed Waiting for Godot in New Orleans (2007) and Mike Nelson’s A Psychic Vacuum. Previous to Creative Time, he worked as Curator at MASS MoCA where he completed numerous large-scale exhibitions such as The Interventionists: Art in the Social Sphere (2004), a survey of political art of the 1990s with a catalogue distributed by MIT Press. His writings have appeared in numerous publications including BookForum, Art Journal, tema celeste, Parkett, Cabinet and The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest. The College Art Association awarded him for distinguished writing in Art Journal in 2004. He recently curated an exhibition for Independent Curators International titled Experimental Geography with a book available by Melville House Publishing. His book on socially engaged art is forthcoming in winter 2011.