Helen Molesworth

Helen Molesworth is a Los Angeles-based writer and curator. Her major museum exhibitions include One Day at a Time: Manny Farber and Termite Art , Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957 , and Work Ethic . She has organized monographic exhibitions of Ruth Asawa, Moyra Davey, Noah Davis, Louise Lawler, Kerry James Marshall, Catherine Opie, and Luc Tuymans among others. She is the author of numerous catalogue essays and her writing has appeared in Artforum , Art Journal ,...See more

Helen Molesworth is a Los Angeles-based writer and curator. Her major museum exhibitions include One Day at a Time: Manny Farber and Termite Art , Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957 , and Work Ethic . She has organized monographic exhibitions of Ruth Asawa, Moyra Davey, Noah Davis, Louise Lawler, Kerry James Marshall, Catherine Opie, and Luc Tuymans among others. She is the author of numerous catalogue essays and her writing has appeared in Artforum , Art Journal , Documents , and October . 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. See less