Barbara London
United States
Internationally renowned curator and writer with a practice revolving around media, installation and sound art. Recent projects include the survey exhibition "Dara Birnbaum," curated for the Prada Foundation, Milan (2023); the exhibition Seeing Sound (Independent Curators International, 2020-26); the podcast series "Barbara London Calling," 2020-2024; and Video Art: The First Fifty Years, published by Phaidon in 2020/2024.
London joined the curatorial staff of the Museum of Modern Art in the early 1970s, where she founded the video collection and exhibition programs. While at MoMA, she organized numerous media and solo exhibitions, and led the acquisition of works by artists such as Laurie Anderson, Nam June Paik, Sondra Perry, Zhang Peili, among many others. Her thematic shows included "Soundings: A Contemporary Score," "Music Video: the Industry and its Margins," "Looking at Music," and "Video from Tokyo to Fukui and Kyoto." Her writings have appeared in numerous catalogs and publications. She was the first to integrate the Internet as part of curatorial practice, with Stir-fry (1994), http://www.adaweb.com/context/stir-fry/; Internyet (1998); and punto.jp. (1999.) She has taught in the Department of Sound Art at Columbia University and in the Graduate Art Department at Yale, 2014-2019.
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