Eungie Joo is a curator, writer and educator. She has served as Curator and Head of Contemporary Art at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art from 2017-2024; Curator of Sharjah Biennial 12: The past, the present, the possible (2015); Director and Curator of Education and Public Programs at the New Museum, where she oversaw the Museum as Hub initiative (2007-2012); Commissioner of the Korean Pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale, Condensation: Haegue Yang (2009); inaugural Director and Curator of the Gallery at REDCAT (2003-2007); and co-founder of the participatory space Six Months: Crenshaw (2003). Her curatorial practice relies on sustained relationships with artists through the production of new work, activating discursive and performative platforms, and exhibition making. Joo earned her PhD in Ethnic Studies from the University of California at Berkeley.