Mohebbi joins the Long Island City institution from the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh
Sohrab Mohebbi has been named the new director of SculptureCenter, the museum situated in Long Island City, Queens, New York. Mohebbi has worked at the institution as a curator since 2018 – most recently as curator-at-large. Mohebbi is also the curator of the 58th Carnegie International – and will stay in his role at the Carnegie Museum of Art through September, while taking up his new posting at SculptureCenter in March.
‘In the past few years, we have all been trying to reassess what we do, how we do it, and why we do it. At SculptureCenter we have a chance to experiment with and learn from these new institutional discourses and possibilities to better serve our constituents and our living environment,’ Mohebbi said in a statement. ‘As many aspects of human life, culture, and politics evaporate into the cloud, SculptureCenter’s mission enables us to see how art reframes our relationship with matter, emergent objects, and forms.’
Mohebbi’s work at SculptureCenter includes organising solo shows by Diane Severin Nguyen, Rindon Johnson, Tishan Hsu, Rafael Domenech, Fiona Connor and Banu Cennetoğlu. Prior to SculptureCenter, he worked at REDCAT in Los Angeles and the Queens Museum in New York.
Meanwhile, Kyle Dancewicz, who has served as interim director since September 2020, will act as deputy director.
