Giampaolo Bianconi

Giampaolo Bianconi is Dittmer Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago. Since joining the museum in 2022 he has worked with artists including Marwa Arsanios, Charles Atlas, and Lorraine O’Grady, and Nora Turato, among others. Forthcoming projects include a commission-based exhibition with artist John Knight and a survey of works by H. C. Westermann.

Bianconi previously held positions as a curator at Museum Brandhorst, Munch, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. At Brandhorst, he organized exhibitions including Site Visit (2022) and launched the Museum Brandhorst Flag Commission. At MoMA, he was a curator for the inaugural reinstallation of the museum’s collection following its 2019 expansion and organized exhibitions including Thinking Machines: Art and Design in the Computer Age 1959–1989 (2017) and Cinthia Marcelle (MoMA PS1, 2017) in addition to events and performances. At the Drawing Center, New York, he was invited to organize the exhibition As If: Alternative Histories from Then to Now (2019). His writing appears regularly in catalogs and periodicals.