ASSOCIATION OF ART MUSEUM CURATORS & AAMC FOUNDATION (AAMC)
Christina Yang Appointed Executive Director
The AAMC & AAMC Foundation Board of Trustees has appointed Christina Yang as the next Executive Director. Yang brings nearly three decades of experience as a curator and program director working independently and at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Williams College Museum of Art, and the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archives. Yang will begin at AAMC part-time starting June 23, 2025, collaborating closely with Interim Executive Director Minna Lee, and will assume her position full-time on September 2, 2025. The search was led by MS&R Senior Search Consultant, Suzanne Tan.
Yang most recently served as Chief Curator at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and as Deputy Director for Engagement at the Williams College Museum of Art. At the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, she led Public Programs from 2005 through 2019, including curating interdisciplinary global projects. Her early career was shaped by curatorial work at The Kitchen and the Queens Museum of Art.
Based in New York City, Yang is currently working as an independent curator, writer, and educator, including as a regular contributor to the Brooklyn Rail, while completing her Ph.D. She is a specialist in global contemporary art with a focus on the Asian diaspora, social practice, performance, and experimental genres. Throughout her career, Yang has been an advocate for equitable access and new curatorial practices, and she has mentored emerging museum professionals, focusing on students of color. She teaches in the School of Visual Arts Master of Arts program in Curatorial Practice and has been an adjunct lecturer/recitation leader at Bennington College, New York University, California College of Arts and Crafts, and Long Island University.
Yang has served on the Board of the Association of Academic Museums and Galleries as well as on Women & Performance, a journal of feminist theory. She is a Curatorial Ambassador for the new biannual Arrival Art Fair in North Adams, Massachusetts, opening in June 2025, and she will earn her Ph.D. in performance studies from the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University in May 2025. She holds an M.A. from Williams College and a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley.