Matthew S. Witkovsky

Matthew S. Witkovsky is the Richard and Ellen Sandor Chair and Curator, Photography and Media, and vice president for strategic art initiatives. Highlights among the many exhibitions he’s curated since joining the Art Institute in 2009 include Revoliutsiia! Demonstratsiia! Soviet Art Put to the Test (2017); Moholy-Nagy: Future Present (2016); Christopher Williams: The Production Line of Happiness (2014); and Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph, 1964–1977 (2011). In 2016 he received the Kraszna-Krausz Award for Provoke: Photography in Japan between Protest and Performance.
Previously, Matthew was a curatorial associate and associate curator of photography at the National Gallery of Art, where he received his first Kraszna-Krausz Award for Foto: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918–1948 (2008). He holds a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania.
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Toward a Borderless Imagination
The curatorial team of Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica introduces one of Pan-Africanism’s key tenets: the idea of remapping the world.
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“With No Fear or Fence”: An Experiment in Collective Exhibition Making
The Chicago art collective Floating Museum, several curators, and dozens more artists and art supporters came together to create a brand-new and highly collaborative presentation.
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The Road to DRIVES
Traveling South Africa’s N1 highway in the ’90s, artist Jo Ractliffe began a photographic journey that would lead to an exhibition in Chicago.
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