Thelma Golden was born on September 22,1965 and is an American art curator, who is the Director and Chief Curator of The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York City, United States.
27 Facts About Thelma Golden
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Thelma Golden is noted as one of the originators of the term post-blackness.
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From 1991 to 1998, Golden was a curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, where she gained a reputation for promoting young black conceptual artists.
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Thelma Golden joined the Studio Museum as Deputy Director for Exhibitions and Programs in 2000 before succeeding Lowery Stokes Sims, the museum's former director and president, in 2005.
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Thelma Golden grew up in Queens, New York, the daughter of Arthur Golden and Thelma Golden.
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Thelma Golden had her first hands-on training as a senior in high school at the New Lincoln School, training as a curatorial apprentice at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Thelma Golden worked as an intern at The Studio Museum in 1985, where she cataloged the papers of painter Benny Andrews among other tasks.
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Thelma Golden worked under curator Kellie Jones, whom Golden later credited with having "taught me what it meant to do the work".
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Thelma Golden was then a curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art from 1988 to 1998.
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Thelma Golden was the visual arts director at the Jamaica Arts Center in Queens before she became director of the Whitney Museum's outpost in midtown Manhattan in 1991.
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Thelma Golden was the Special Projects Curator for contemporary art collectors Peter Norton and Eileen Harris Norton from 1998 to 2000.
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Thelma Golden championed the work of artists such as Kehinde Wiley, Glenn Ligon, and Njideka Akunyili Crosby.
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In 2005, Thelma Golden became the Studio Museum's director and chief curator.
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Thelma Golden adjusted the museum's schedule so that Wednesdays were devoted to school trips and private events, but Thursdays and Fridays the museum was open into the evening so that a wider range of guests could visit.
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Exhibitions that Thelma Golden organized for the Studio Museum began to tour internationally to cities including Boston, Houston, Philadelphia, Toronto, and Chicago.
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In 2017, MoMA director Glenn D Lowry credited Golden with having made the Studio Museum "a national institution".
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In 2004, Thelma Golden curated a retrospective of fashion designer Patrick Kelly at the Brooklyn Museum.
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Thelma Golden then co-curated the traveling exhibition Glenn Ligon: Some Changes in 2005.
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Thelma Golden serves on the Graduate Committee at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, is a member of the Association of Art Museum Directors, is on the boards of Creative Time in New York and the Institute of International Visual Arts in London, and was a 2008 Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute.
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The New York City's cultural advisory committee invited Thelma Golden to serve on their committee in 2015.
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In 2016, Thelma Golden became a member on the board of trustees at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
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In 2010, Thelma Golden was appointed to the Committee for the Preservation of the White House.
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Thelma Golden served on the Committee for the Preservation of the White House until 2016.
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Thelma Golden met London-based fashion designer Duro Olowu in 2006 and married him in 2008.
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On 11 February 2014, Thelma Golden was among the guests invited to the state dinner hosted by US President Barack Obama in honor of President Francois Hollande at the White House.
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In 2016, Thelma Golden won the Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence.
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Thelma Golden appeared on ArtReview's list of the 100 most influential people in the international art world every year from 2003 to 2009 and from 2015 to 2020.