Barbara London
Barbara London is an internationally acclaimed curator, advocate for the arts, writer and consultant with a practice that revolves around media, installation, and sound art produced internationally. Recent projects include the exhibitions Seeing Sound (Independent Curators International, 2020-25); Perpetual Motion, curated for the Perez Museum, Miami, 2024; Dara Birnbaum, the Prada Foundation, Milan (2023); and the podcast series, Barbara London Calling, 2020-2025. London’s book, Video Art: The First Fifty Years, (Phaidon, 2020/2024) is in its third printing. London joined the curatorial staff at The Museum of Modern Art in the early 1970s, where she founded the video exhibition and collection programs. While at MoMA, she organized numerous exhibitions and one-person shows, and led the acquisition of works by such artists as Laurie Anderson, Nam June Paik, Sondra Perry, Zhang Peili, among many others. Her thematic shows included Soundings: A Contemporary Score, Music Video: The Industry and Its Fringes, Looking at Music, and Video from Tokyo to Fukui and Kyoto. Her writing has appeared in numerous catalogues and publications. She was the first to integrate the Internet as part of curatorial practice, with Stir-fry (1994), http://www.adaweb.com/context/stir-fry/; Internyet (1998); and dot.jp. (1999). As a co-commissioner, she organized the first Media City Seoul biennial in 2000. London has taught at New York University, the School of Visual Arts, Yale, and Colombia University.




