P.S. 1 NAMES NEW BOARD MEMBERS
P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center director Klaus Biesenbach announced today that the museum has added five new members to its board of directors. They are performance artist and musician Laurie Anderson, artist and activist Paul Chan, Domus Collection Foundation founder Richard Chang, menswear designer Adam Kimmel, and art historian Diana Picasso. The chairman of P.S. 1’s board of directors is Agnes Gund.
Laurie Anderson is an influential force in experimental music and performance art whose career spans more than three decades. Anderson has toured the United States with shows ranging from spoken-word performance to multimedia events including Songs and Stories for Moby Dick, a stage performance based on the novel by Herman Melville. Her visual work has been exhibited in major museums, galleries, and art fairs throughout the United States and Europe including the Musée d’Art Contemporain of Lyon, France; Sean Kelly Gallery, New York; and the 2007 Venice Biennale. In 2007, Anderson was awarded the prestigious Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize.
Paul Chan is an artist living and working in New York. His recent major solo exhibitions include “Sade for Sade’s Sake,” Greene Naftali Gallery, New York; “My Laws Are My Whores,” the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago; “Three Easy Pieces,” Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; and a traveling exhibition of “The 7 Lights” at the Serpentine Gallery, London, and the New Museum, New York. Chan has participated in recent major biennials including the fifty-third Venice Biennale, 2009 and the tenth International Istanbul Biennial, 2007. His work was also included in P.S. 1’s exhibition “Greater New York” in 2005.
Richard Chang is the director of Tira Group, a private investment firm with interests in media, real estate, hospitality, and fashion. In 2008, he founded the Domus Collection, a Beijing-based foundation established to advance global contemporary art in China. Among the foundation’s collection are works by Liu Xiaodong, Zhang Xiaogang, Damien Hirst, Anish Kapoor, Gerhard Richter, Anselm Kiefer, and Matthew Day Jackson. Chang was the lead sponsor of the 2009 Anish Kapoor exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, and he is a member of Tate’s Asia Pacific acquisitions committee.
Born and raised in New York City, Adam Kimmel studied architecture at New York University before moving to Italy to study fashion production. Having launched his own line at the Parisian boutique Colette, he cites artists as an inspiration for many of his fashion designs, skillfully fusing the two distinct, yet cross-referential, worlds. Kimmel’s most recent project includes a lookbook shot by Andy Warhol’s cinematographer Gerard Malanga, featuring artists such as Francesco Clemente and Matthew Barney. Most recently, he presented his collection in collaboration with the painter George Condo.
Art historian and author Diana Picasso has trained knowledge and a critical eye for art both modern and contemporary. She has edited several books focusing on the works of her grandfather Pablo Picasso. Her most recent publication, Art Can Only Be Erotic, includes a selection of the artist’s more sensual masterpieces. Picasso is currently working on a catalogue raisonné of nearly two thousand Picasso sculptures. She is a well-known philanthropist and has supported numerous contemporary art projects, most recently a Tino Sehgal piece in the group show “Political Minimal” at Kunst-Werke Berlin.
