Christopher Y. Lew

Christopher Y. Lew is founder of C/O: Curatorial Office. Lew has over fifteen years of experience working at American museums and arts nonprofits. He was the founding Chief Artistic Director of Horizon Art Foundation and Outland Art and is also a former curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, where he oversaw the emerging artist program and was co-curator of the 2017 Whitney Biennial. At the Whitney, he organized many exhibitions, including Josh Kline: Project for a New American Century (2023), Salman Toor: How Will I Know (2020), Pope.L: Choir (2019), Kevin Beasley: A view of a landscape (2018), and Eckhaus Latta: Possessed (2018), and mounted the first US solo exhibitions for Sophia Al-Maria, Rachel Rose, and Jared Madere. Prior to joining the Whitney, he was assistant curator at MoMA PS1 and organized many exhibitions there. Lew has contributed to numerous art publications and catalogues.