Full Name
Matthew Yokobosky
Job Title
Senior Curator, Fashion & Material Culture
Company
Brooklyn Museum
Speaker Bio
Matthew Yokobosky was appointed Senior Curator of Fashion and Material Culture in 2018, having most recently held the position of Director of Exhibition Design. Since 1999 Mr. Yokobosky has designed more than ninety-five temporary and permanent exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum, including the critically acclaimed Luce Center for American Art: Visible Storage • Study Center (2001/2005), Basquiat (2005), Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer's Life (2006), Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present (2009; also exhibition editor), The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk (2013), Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern (2017), and David Bowie is (2018; also coordinating curator) among others. His recent projects include Pierre Cardin: Future Fashion (2019), Studio 54: Night Magic (2020), The Queen and The Crown: A Virtual Exhibition of Costumes from “The Queen’s Gambit” and “The Crown” (2020), and Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams (2021). Thierry Mugler: Couturissime will open on November 18, 2022.
Prior to joining the Brooklyn Museum, Mr. Yokobosky was with the Whitney Museum of American Art in the roles of Associate Curator of Film and Video and Exhibition Designer. He has curated and designed exhibitions for the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield, Connecticut; Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles; National Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul; American Center in Paris; Statens Museum for Kunst/National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen; and Barbican Centre in London. He won a Bessie Award for set and costume design for his work with the theater director Ping Chong.
Prior to joining the Brooklyn Museum, Mr. Yokobosky was with the Whitney Museum of American Art in the roles of Associate Curator of Film and Video and Exhibition Designer. He has curated and designed exhibitions for the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield, Connecticut; Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles; National Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul; American Center in Paris; Statens Museum for Kunst/National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen; and Barbican Centre in London. He won a Bessie Award for set and costume design for his work with the theater director Ping Chong.
Prior to joining the Brooklyn Museum, Mr. Yokobosky was with the Whitney Museum of American Art in the roles of Associate Curator of Film and Video and Exhibition Designer. He has curated and designed exhibitions for the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield, Connecticut; Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles; National Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul; American Center in Paris; Statens Museum for Kunst/National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen; and Barbican Centre in London. He won a Bessie Award for set and costume design for his work with the theater director Ping Chong.
Prior to joining the Brooklyn Museum, Mr. Yokobosky was with the Whitney Museum of American Art in the roles of Associate Curator of Film and Video and Exhibition Designer. He has curated and designed exhibitions for the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield, Connecticut; Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles; National Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul; American Center in Paris; Statens Museum for Kunst/National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen; and Barbican Centre in London. He won a Bessie Award for set and costume design for his work with the theater director Ping Chong.
