Helen Molesworth
Helen Molesworth, guest on Objects in Conversation Episode 001, is a writer and curator based in Los Angeles. She is the host of Death of an Artist Season 1 and of David Zwirner’s ongoing Dialogues podcast. Her recently published book, Open Questions: Thirty Years of Writing About Art (Phaidon), culls together 24 of her essays written across three decades.
Her major museum exhibitions include: Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933–1957; This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s; Part Object Part Sculpture, and Work Ethic. She has organized monographic exhibitions of Ruth Asawa, Kerry James Marshall, Moyra Davey, Noah Davis, Louise Lawler, Steve Locke, Anna Maria Maiolino, Catherine Opie, and Luc Tuymans. The recipient of the 2011 Bard Center for Curatorial Studies Award for Curatorial Excellence, in 2021 she received a Guggenheim Fellowship and in 2022 she was awarded The Clark Art Writing Prize.