Robert Storr

　　Robert Storr, director of the 52nd International Art Exhibition Think with the Senses - Feel with the Mind. Art in the Present Tense in 2007.

　　From 1990 to 2002, he was Curator and Senior Curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Among his numerous exhibitions at MoMA are Elizabeth Murray (2005), Max Beckmann (2003-organized with the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris and the Tate Gallery, London), Gerhard Richter: 40 years of Painting (2002), Chuck Close (1998), Tony Smith: Painter, Architect, Sculptor (1998), Mapping (1994) Robert Ryman (1993 in collaboration with the Tate Gallery), and DIS LOCATIONS (1991-92).

　　In 1995, he organized as coordinating curator an exhibition on Bruce Nauman (Golden Lion at the 48th International Art Exhibition of the Biennale di Venezia in 1999), which was also presented at the So Paulo Biennale in 1998.

　　From 1990 to 2000, he was the coordinator of Projects, a series of exhibitions at MoMA devoted to the work of contemporary artists. As independent curator, Storr organized SITE Santa Fe's Fifth International Biennial Disparities and Deformations: Our Grotesque (2004-2005), The Devil on the Stairs: Looking Back on the Eighties (Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia 1991-92), and Susan Rothenberg:15 Years - a Survey (Rooseum, Malm Sweden 1990).

　　Storr is the author of numerous publications such as Philip Guston (Abbeville 1986), Chuck Close (Rizzoli 1987), Modern Art Despite Modernism (2000), and Intimate Geometries: The Work and Life of Louise Bourgeois (forthcoming). He has recently written catalog essays for exhibitions by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Vija Celmins, Gego, Eva Hesse, Kim Jones, Guillermo Kuitca, Barry Le Va, Steve McQueen, Nancy Spero, and Richard Tuttle among others.

　　He was named a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French government in 2000.