NEW YORK.- Lisa Phillips, Toby Devan Lewis Director of the New Museum of Contemporary Art, today announced the appointment of Eungie Joo as Director and Curator of Education and Public Programs, a newly created position at the Museum. Starting July 1, 2007, Eungie will develop, implement and oversee all of the Museum's educational and interpretive programs at the new facility on the Bowery, including the 5th floor education center; the multidisciplinary Museum as Hub program and global partnership; multidisciplinary programming in the theater; and all of the Museum's acclaimed high-school and youth programs, including G:Class.

Eungie comes to the New Museum from REDCAT (Roy & Edna Disney/CalArts Theater), Los Angeles, where she is Director and Curator of the Gallery. During her four years at REDCAT, she developed exhibition, residency, and related programs for the California Institute of the Arts' downtown art center, bringing tremendous energy and visibility to this program. Her most recent curatorial projects include Eternal Flame: Imagining A Future at the End of the World, Damián Ortega: The Beetle Trilogy and Other Works; Kara E. Walker's Song of the South; Margaret Kilgallen: In the Sweet Bye & Bye; and Taro Shinoda: Buried Treasure. Prior to her appointment at REDCAT, Eungie organized Abstruction at Artists Space, New York, Widely Unknown at Deitch Projects, and was co-curator of Time After Time: Asia and Our Moment at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco.

In addition to her curatorial practice, Eungie has served as an Instructor and Visiting Artist at the School of Art, California Institute of the Arts. She is co-founder of Six Months: Crenshaw (2003), a temporary site in Los Angeles for conversation, exhibition, performance, and collectivity through dialogue and critique. She has contributed to exhibition catalogues on Edgar Arceneaux, Mark Bradford, Barry McGee, Rigo 23, Lorna Simpson, and Kara Walker among others. She is on the editorial board of Afterall and has contributed to numerous contemporary art publications.

Eungie completed a doctorate in Ethnic Studies at the University of California at Berkeley in 2002 and a B.A. in Africana Studies from Vassar College in 1991. She is a board member of the William H. Johnson Foundation and serves on the advisory boards of ICI, Headlands Center for the Arts and Side Street Projects. She is a member of the advisory committee to Douglas Fogle, curator of contemporary art at Carnegie Museum of Art, for the 2008 Carnegie International. Eungie is the 2006 recipient of the Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement.

"Eungie is a highly respected young curator with a longstanding commitment to education, access and diversity," said Lisa Phillips. "Her experience and unique talents will help dramatically expand the impact of the New Museum's education programs and ability to serve new audiences at a crucial moment in the Museum's history."