Julia Bryan-Wilson will provide a curatorial overview of two exhibitions: the 2024–25 show ‘Queer Histories’ at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo, situating it within the context of broader debates on queer representation, abstraction, and archives; and her forthcoming exhibition ‘GUTSY’, at the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw. In doing so, she reflects on how political arguments can be staged in space.
Julia Bryan-Wilson is Professor of Art History and LGBTQ+ Studies at Columbia University, as well as a frequent critic. She is the author of four books, most recently Louise Nevelson’s Sculpture: Drag, Color, Join, Face (2023). Her widely influential 2017 book Fray: Art and Textile Politics received the ASAP Book Prize, the Frank Jewett Mather Award, and the Robert Motherwell Book Award. She is also Curator-at-Large at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP), where in 2024 she co-curated ‘Histórias LGBTQIA+/Queer Histories’ with Adriano Pedrosa and André Mesquita. In November 2025 she will unveil two new exhibitions: ‘Lotty Rosenfeld: Disobedient Spaces’, curated with Natalia Brizuela at the Wallach Art Gallery; and ‘GUTSY: On Feminist Infrastructures’, at the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw.
Venue: Sapieha Palace, the Grand Hall
The event is free of charge and will be held in English.
Supported by the Lithuanian Culture Institute