Lydia Yee is a curator at the Barbican Art Gallery in London, where, with Francesco Manacorda, she recently curated Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art (2008). She has also organized projects by Huang Yong Ping (2008) and Shirana Shahbazi (2007) for the Barbican’s Curve Gallery. Previously, she was senior curator at the Bronx Museum of the Arts in New York City where she organized such exhibitions as Collection Remixed (2005), Music/Video (2004), One Planet under a Groove: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art (2001), and Urban Mythologies: The Bronx Represented Since the 1960s (1999). Yee was the 2003 Cassullo Teaching Fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program and the recipient—for Street Art, Street Life (2008), which she curated for the Bronx Museum of the Arts—of the 2004 Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award.
