Eungie Joo is curator of contemporary art at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, where she recently organized the exhibition SOFT POWER (October 2019-February 2020), which included the work of Carlos Motta and the symposium Bodies at the Borders, co-organized by Motta and Dr. Rachel Nelson at IAS, UC Santa Cruz. Joo was previously Artistic Director of the 5th Anyang Public Art Project/APAP 5 in Korea (2016); Curator of Sharjah Biennial 12: The past, the present, the possible in the United Arab Emirates (2015); and Director of Art and Cultural Programs at Instituto Inhotim in Brazil. From 2007-2012, Joo was Keith Haring Director and Curator of Education and Public Programs at the New Museum, New York, where she spearheaded the Museum as Hub initiative, an international partnership of arts organizations to explore artistic, curatorial, and institutional practice. At the New Museum, Joo also organized the 2012 New Museum Generational Triennial: The Ungovernables; published the Art Spaces Directory (2012), a guide to over 400 independent art spaces from over ninety-six countries; and edited the volume Rethinking Contemporary Art and Multicultural Education (2009). She was commissioner of the Korean Pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2009, organizing the exhibition Condensation: Haegue Yang. Joo was founding Director and Curator of the Gallery at REDCAT, Los Angeles. She received her doctorate from the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California at Berkeley.