Dominic Molon

Dominic Molon is currently the Richard Brown Baker Curator of Contemporary Art and interim chief curator at the RISD Museum. He previously served as chief curator at the Contemporary Art Museum (CAM) St. Louis (2010–13) and as curator and interim curatorial department head at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago (1994–2010). Molon has organized exhibitions of such prominent living artists as Martin Boyce (2015), Leslie Hewitt (2011), Liam Gillick (2009), Wolfgang Tillmans (2006), Gillian Wearing (2002) and Sharon Lockhart (2001). He has also curated thematic shows such as Production Site: The Artist’s Studio Inside-Out (2010) and Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967 (2007), both at the MCA Chicago. Recent projects include collection-based work with Nicole Eisenman and Simone Leigh as part of the RISD Museum’s Raid the Icebox Now exhibition initiative (2019–20) and Any distance between us (2021–22), a presentation focused on queer aesthetics and intimacy co-curated with independent curator Stephen Truax.