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MoMA Appoints Clément Chéroux As the Next Ehrenkranz Chief Curator of Photography

MoMA Appoints Clément Chéroux As the Next Ehrenkranz Chief Curator of Photography

The Museum of Modern Art announces the appointment of Clément Chéroux as the next Joel and Anne Ehrenkranz Chief Curator of Photography. MoMA has exhibited and collected photography since its founding in 1929, and formally established a Department of Photography in 1940. Chéroux succeeds Quentin Bajac, who served as Chief from 2013-2018, and now directs the Jeu de Paume, Paris. Chéroux will lead…

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February 2020, New York’s Museum of Modern Art announced that Clément Chéroux would step into the shoes vacated by his compatriot Quentin Bajac two years earlier, assuming the role of the museum’s Joel and Anne Ehrenkranz Chief Curator of Photography. At the time of the announcement, Chéroux was senior curator of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s Pritzker Center for Photography, a position he held for three productive years, producing two major thematic exhibitions that explored the intersection of vernacular and traditional “art” photography, including snap+share: transmitting photographs from mail art to social networks (2019) and Don’t! Photography and the Art of Mistakes (2019), as well as a series of solo exhibitions by artists like Louis Stettner (2018), Carolyn Drake (2018), and Walker Evans (2017). (The latter, in fact, had been originated by Chéroux while he was still serving as chief curator of photography at the Centre Pompidou, Paris.)