Bronx Museum Picks New Leader

Shamim M. Momin Is the Bronx Museum’s New Director

Shamim M. Momin will begin her tenure as director and chief curator of the Bronx Museum. (photo by Sue de Beer, courtesy Bronx Museum) Shamim M. Momin, cofounder of the public art nonprofit Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND), will lead the Bronx Museum beginning this September. The museum announced Momin’s appointment as director and chief curator on Thursday, July 8, as the institution prepares to open its newly expanded and renovated $43.9 mi…

Bronx Museum Picks New Leader

Shamim Momin, who started her curatorial career at the Whitney Museum of American Art, returns to New York to take the helm of the Bronx Museum of the Arts. ...

Bronx Museum of the Arts appoints Shamim M. Momin as director and chief curator

Momin, who has a long-standing relationship with the Whitney Museum and previously led the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle, will start her role in September

Shamim M. Momin will lead Bronx Museum

Shamim M. Momin. Photo: Sue de Beer. Shamim M. Momin will lead the Bronx Museum as director and chief curator the New York institution. Momin was most recently director of curatorial affairs at the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle, leaving in 2024 after six years, during which time she worked on shows by Gary Simmons, Kelly Akashi and Diana Al-Hadid, among others. In 2009, Momin cofounded LAND (Los Angeles Nomadic Division), a non-profit public art …

Shamim M. Momin Appointed Director and Chief Curator of Bronx Museum

The Bronx Museum of the Arts has announced Shamim M. Momin as its next director and chief curator. Momin, who was most recently director of curatorial affairs at the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle, will take up her new post in early September amid a planned $42.9 million transformation of the museum’s South Wing slated […]

Bronx Museum Names Shamim M. Momin as Next Director

The Bronx Museum of the Arts has named Shamim M. Momin as its next director and chief curator. She will begin in the role in early September, succeeding Klaudio Rodriguez, who departed the museum last September to lead the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg in Florida. Momin was most recently the director of curatorial affairs at the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle, where she worked from 2018 to 2024. During her tenure, she curated the group exh…