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The Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art announces the appointment of Makeda Best as the next Joel and Anne Ehrenkranz Chief Curator of Photography. MoMA has exhibited and collected photography since its founding in 1929, and formally established a Department of Photography in 1940. When she joins MoMA in September 2026, Best will lead a department with a renowned legacy and an unparalleled collection of more than 30,000 works that continues to play a defining global role in exploring photography’s diverse and powerful impacts on modern life. She will guide all aspects of the department, including its installations, acquisitions, exhibitions, publications, and loan programs. Best succeeds Clément Chéroux, who served as chief curator from 2020 to 2022 and now directs the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris. Roxana Marcoci, MoMA’s David Dechman Senior Curator of Photography, has served as the acting chief curator in the interim.
“After an extensive international search, we are thrilled to welcome Makeda as the new Ehrenkranz Chief Curator of Photography,” said Christophe Cherix, the David Rockefeller Director of MoMA. “Makeda’s distinguished career as a curator, scholar, and institutional leader—spanning major collections at Harvard and Oakland—brings a fresh vision to the field. She champions photography’s singular power to connect with audiences through storytelling, seamlessly crossing boundaries into sociology, environmentalism, performance art, labor, and civic life.”…Click here to read the full article
