Mia Locks is a contemporary art curator and museum leader.
Mia Locks is an independent curator and writer based in Los Angeles.[ citation needed] She co-founded and leads Museums Moving Forward, a data-driven research initiative to support equity in the art museum sector, funded by Ford Foundation and Mellon Foundation.[ citation needed] She serves on the board of Clockshop, an arts organization in Los Angeles. She is also an editorial advisor on the podcasts " Hope & Dread: The Tectonic Shifts of Power in Art." [1] " and The Art World: What If...?!" [2]
Previously, Locks worked as a curator at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and MoMA PS1, New York.[ citation needed] Most recently, she was Senior Curator and Head of New Initiatives at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.[ citation needed] Prior to MOCA, Locks was co-curator of the 2017 Whitney Biennial, with Christopher Y. Lew. [3] At MoMA PS1, she organized exhibitions including Math Bass: Off the Clock (2015); IM Heung-soon: Reincarnation (2015); Samara Golden: The Flat Side of the Knife (2014); and The Little Things Could Be Dearer (2014). [4] She also co-curated Greater New York (2015), with Douglas Crimp, Peter Eleey, and Thomas J. Lax. [5] As an independent curator, she organized Ulrike Müller: or both (2019) at Moore College of Art & Design in Philadelphia, and Cruising the Archive: Queer Art and Culture in Los Angeles, 1945–1980 (2011), with David Evans Frantz, at the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives in Los Angeles, as part of the Getty’s inaugural Pacific Standard Time initiative. [6]
Lock's writing has appeared in Artnet, Mousse, Afterall, Art Journal, and several exhibition catalogues including texts on artists such as Math Bass, Samara Golden, Shara Hughes, William Pope.L, and Carrie Moyer. [7] [8] [9] [10] She edited the first monograph of Samara Golden's work, The Flat Side of the Knife, published by MoMA PS1 in 2014. [11] She served on the faculty of the M.A. program in Curatorial Practice at the School of Visual Arts, New York from 2017-2019. [12]
Locks received a BA from Brown University and an MA from the University of Southern California (USC). She was a 2018 fellow at the Center for Curatorial Leadership in New York City.[ citation needed]
Mia Locks is a contemporary art curator and museum leader.
Mia Locks is an independent curator and writer based in Los Angeles.[ citation needed] She co-founded and leads Museums Moving Forward, a data-driven research initiative to support equity in the art museum sector, funded by Ford Foundation and Mellon Foundation.[ citation needed] She serves on the board of Clockshop, an arts organization in Los Angeles. She is also an editorial advisor on the podcasts " Hope & Dread: The Tectonic Shifts of Power in Art." [1] " and The Art World: What If...?!" [2]
Previously, Locks worked as a curator at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and MoMA PS1, New York.[ citation needed] Most recently, she was Senior Curator and Head of New Initiatives at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.[ citation needed] Prior to MOCA, Locks was co-curator of the 2017 Whitney Biennial, with Christopher Y. Lew. [3] At MoMA PS1, she organized exhibitions including Math Bass: Off the Clock (2015); IM Heung-soon: Reincarnation (2015); Samara Golden: The Flat Side of the Knife (2014); and The Little Things Could Be Dearer (2014). [4] She also co-curated Greater New York (2015), with Douglas Crimp, Peter Eleey, and Thomas J. Lax. [5] As an independent curator, she organized Ulrike Müller: or both (2019) at Moore College of Art & Design in Philadelphia, and Cruising the Archive: Queer Art and Culture in Los Angeles, 1945–1980 (2011), with David Evans Frantz, at the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives in Los Angeles, as part of the Getty’s inaugural Pacific Standard Time initiative. [6]
Lock's writing has appeared in Artnet, Mousse, Afterall, Art Journal, and several exhibition catalogues including texts on artists such as Math Bass, Samara Golden, Shara Hughes, William Pope.L, and Carrie Moyer. [7] [8] [9] [10] She edited the first monograph of Samara Golden's work, The Flat Side of the Knife, published by MoMA PS1 in 2014. [11] She served on the faculty of the M.A. program in Curatorial Practice at the School of Visual Arts, New York from 2017-2019. [12]
Locks received a BA from Brown University and an MA from the University of Southern California (USC). She was a 2018 fellow at the Center for Curatorial Leadership in New York City.[ citation needed]