NEW YORK, NY.- Richard Armstrong, Director, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation, announced today the establishment of a newly endowed curatorial position for contemporary art. Guggenheim curator Katherine Brinson, who joined the museum in 2005, will be the first Daskalopoulos Curator, Contemporary Art. The position has been created, in perpetuity, with the support of Dimitris Daskalopoulos, a Vice President of the Board of Trustees and Chairman of the Collections Council of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation.

“As an active board member, art collector, and patron, Dimitris Daskalopoulos is a preeminent advocate for the power of contemporary art to inspire and reflect creative forces in our society,” said Armstrong. “This generous gift to endow a position allows us to continue to advance a founding commitment of the Guggenheim to collect and exhibit the most thought-provoking and innovative art of our time. We are profoundly grateful to Dimitris, and we congratulate Katherine Brinson, whose scholarship, expertise, and collaborative approach to working with artists have added significantly to the field of contemporary art.”

“For 80 years, the Guggenheim has been a consistent champion of contemporary art that interrogates the world around us, challenges the status quo, and has given a platform to the next generation of new artistic voices,” said Dimitris Daskalopoulos, a Guggenheim board member since 2009. “As part of my ongoing commitment to this remarkable institution, I am pleased to help advance its mission in this way.”

Brinson, who has previously organized exhibitions of work by artists including Anicka Yi, Doris Salcedo, Paul Chan, and Christopher Wool, is currently curating a mid-career survey of work by artist Danh Vo, which opens at the Guggenheim on February 9, 2018. She will continue to work under the guidance of Nancy Spector, Artistic Director and Jennifer and David Stockman Chief Curator, who leads collections, exhibitions, and curatorial programming for the Guggenheim Museum in New York and all Guggenheim museums internationally. The Guggenheim’s engagement with contemporary art includes in-depth exhibitions, performances, public programming, and the Hugo Boss Prize—a biennial award for achievement in contemporary art—as well as ongoing collection-building efforts that include the Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative and The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Chinese Art Initiative.

Katherine Brinson joined the Guggenheim’s curatorial staff in 2005. She has curated and cocurated numerous exhibitions at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, and the former Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin, including the upcoming Danh Vo exhibition (2018); The Hugo Boss Prize 2016: Anicka Yi, Life Is Cheap (2017); Doris Salcedo (2015); Storylines: Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim (2015); The Hugo Boss Prize 2014: Paul Chan, Nonprojections for New Lovers (2015); Christopher Wool (2013–14); The Hugo Boss Prize 2012: Danh Vo, I M U U R 2 (2013); The Hugo Boss Prize 2010: Hans-Peter Feldmann (2011); The Luminous Interval (2011), a presentation of works from the D.Daskalopoulos Collection; Agathe Snow: All Access World (2011); Intervals: Ryan Gander (2010–11); Intervals: Kitty Kraus (2009–10); and Intervals: Julieta Aranda (2009). Brinson served as Associate Curator on Maurizio Cattelan: All (2011–12); as Assistant Curator on theanyspacewhatever (2008–09) and Tino Sehgal (2010); and as curatorial assistant on Louise Bourgeois (2008) and Richard Prince: Spiritual America (2007–08). She works closely with the museum’s International Directors Council on contemporary acquisitions for the permanent collection, and organizes the biennial Hugo Boss Prize. She holds a BA in English literature from University of Oxford and an MA in art history from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.