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JUDY KIM APPOINTED MANAGING CURATOR OF NEW EXHIBITIONS TEAM AT BROOKLYN

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BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Judy Kim has been appointed curator in the recently created exhibitions division at the Brooklyn Museum, which oversees all exhibitions, including major reinstallations of the permanent collection.

“Judy Kim has significant experience organizing a wide range of exhibitions. She will play an important role in leading the new team, whose role it is to create a program of exciting, dynamic, scholarly exhibitions that support the museum mission and are focused on the visitor experience,” said museum director Arnold L. Lehman.

Prior to joining the Brooklyn Museum, Kim was curator of exhibitions since 2001 at the American Federation of Arts. She managed all curatorial and administrative activities of many major traveling exhibitions each year.

Prior to her work at the AFA, Kim worked as assistant curator of contemporary art at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Conn., and as a curatorial research assistant in the department of East Asian art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

For general information, www.brooklynmuseum.org or 718-638-5000.