Thomas Jean Lax

Ep.158 features Thomas (T.) Jean Lax, Curator, Department of Media and Performance at The Museum of Modern Art. T. is a writer and curator specializing in Black art and performance. They recently prepared the exhibition Just Above Midtown: 1974 to the Present (2022) with Lilia Rocio Taboada in collaboration with JAM’s founder, Linda Goode Bryant. Their other collaboratively organized exhibitions at MoMA include Judson Dance Theater: The Work Is Never Done (2018), with Ana Janevski and Martha Joseph; the Projects Series for emerging artists, co-led with Lanka Tattersall; Unfinished Conversations (2017), inspired by John Akomfrah’s installation on the cultural theorist Stuart Hall; and the contemporary art survey Greater New York (2015). Previously, they worked at the Studio Museum in Harlem. A native New Yorker, Lax holds degrees in Africana studies and art history from Brown and Columbia universities and is a PhD candidate in performance studies at New York University, where they are working on a project about mothers. They were the inaugural recipient of the Cisneros Research Grant, traveling to Brazil in 2020. Website https://thomasjlax.com/ NYU https://tisch.nyu.edu/performance-studies/phd-students/thomas-jean-lax Artnet https://news.artnet.com/art-world/thomas-lax-1550668 i-D https://i-d.vice.com/en/article/88gnp4/thomas-lax-on-bringing-radical-black-art-to-moma Pioneer Works https://pioneerworks.org/programs/jacolby-satterwhite-in-conversation-with-thomas-lax MoMA https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/5078 Artforum https://www.artforum.com/print/202210/thomas-t-jean-lax-s-highlights-of-2022-89671 https://www.artforum.com/print/202009/thomas-j-lax-84373 Literary https://lithub.com/author/thomasjlax/ Hunter College https://huntercollegeart.org/2023/01/26/linda-goode-bryant-in-conversation-with-thomas-t-lax/ Vogue https://www.vogue.com/article/interview-with-thomas-t-jean-lax-by-domenica-bucalo Ssense https://www.ssense.com/en-us/editorial/culture/play-time-with-moma-curator-thomas-lax