Luis Croquer

Director + Chief Curator – Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit

Moderator – 9:00 am, Thursday, April 7th – Proving Ground: Experiments in and with the Public Realm

Luis Croquer is a graduate of Goldsmiths College, University of London, where he studied Anthropology and Communications. He also received a Fulbright Scholarship to the State University of New York at Purchase where he earned a degree in Modern and Contemporary Art History, Theory and Criticism. In December 2008 he was appointed the first permanent Director and Chief Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD). Prior to his current position at MOCAD he was a member of the Director’s Office at El Museo del Barrio, New York, where he oversaw special projects. Croquer was previously Senior Curator of Exhibitions at the American Federation of Arts and Curator of Historical Exhibitions at The Drawing Center, both in New York, and also served as Assistant to the Commissioner of the American Pavilion for the 51st Venice Biennale. He has curated ten exhibitions at MOCAD since 2008. His most recent exhibition projects include LifeStories, featuring Pina Bausch, Patricia Esquivias, Simryn Gill, Peter Lemmens, Jàn Mančuška and Rachel Mason, and Edgar Arceneaux: Miracles and Jokes, Circle Disk Rotation and 22 Lost Signs of the Zodiac. Croquer is currently working with Chicago based artist, Theaster Gates, and French artist, Stephanie Nava, on upcoming solo exhibitions for 2011