Dominic Molon

RISD Museum, USA
Curator

Dominic Molon is the Richard Brown Baker Curator of Contemporary Art and Interim Chief Curator at the RISD Museum in Rhode Island, United States. He previously served as the Chief Curator at the Contemporary Art Museum (CAM) St. Louis from 2010 to 2013, and as Curator (and interim Curatorial department head) at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago from 1994 to 2010. Molon has organised exhibitions of prominent living artists, such as Martin Boyce (2015), Leslie Hewitt (2011), Wolfgang Tillmans (2006), and Gillian Wearing (2002). Recent projects have included collection-based projects with Nicole Eisenman and Simone Leigh as part of the RISD Museum's "Raid the Icebox Now" exhibition initiative from 2019 to 2020 and Any distance between us from 2021 to 2022, a presentation focusing on queer aesthetics and intimacy co-curated with independent curator Stephen Truax. He is  working on an exhibition of the African-American sculptor Nancy Elizabeth Prophet for 2024, together with interim RISD Museum director Sarah Ganz Blythe.

Dominic Molon was invited for a curatorial research trip in 2016.

Dominic Molon. Photo: Walead Beshty.