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MAS Context Spring Talks 2016

Analog 2016: Zoë Ryan

June 4, 2016 at 3PM

Curator Zoë Ryan lectures on the topic of Exhibition at MAS Context Analog 2016, an event that took place at Studio Gang Architects. The one-day event included presentations of emerging and established designers, a temporary bookstore, and an exhibition of the work of Studio Gang Architects.

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Video shot and edited by Matthew Goetz of Lucid Creative Agency.

Thanks to Studio Gang Architects for hosting the event.

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Zoë Ryan

Zoë Ryan is Daniel W. Dietrich, II Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania. She joined the ICA in November 2020. Prior to this, she was the John H. Bryan Chair and Curator of Architecture and Design at the Art Institute of Chicago. Her research explores the sociopolitical impact of the arts on society. Recent exhibitions include In a Cloud, in a Wall, in a Chair: Six Modernists in Mexico at Midcentury (2019) and Past Forward: Architecture and Design at the Art Institute (2017–ongoing). In 2015, she cocurated Making Place: The Architecture of David Adjaye. In 2014, Ryan was the curator of the second Istanbul Design Biennial, The Future Is Not What It Used To Be. Ryan has taught graduate seminars on curatorial studies and design history and theory at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is a member of the Design Trust International Advisory Council, Hong Kong and on the Executive Committee of the International Confederation of Architecture Museums.