Modern and Contemporary Art

Alexandra Foradas

Haskell Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art

Alexandra Foradas was appointed Haskell Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art in 2025. Prior to joining the Museum, Foradas was at MASS MoCA, where she curated and co-curated solo exhibitions by artists including Osman Khan (2024), Jason Moran (2022), EJ Hill (2022), Taryn Simon (2018, 2021), and Annie Lennox (2019, co-curated with Joseph Thompson), as well as group exhibitions including Like Magic (2023), Deep Water (2022), and Kissing through a Curtain (2020).

Foradas is the editor of Osman Khan: Road to Hybridabad (MASS MoCA, 2025) and Kissing through a Curtain: Contemporary Artists on Translation (MASS MoCA, 2021), and a contributor to EJ Hill: This Means Everything to Me (For the Birds Trapped in Airports & MASS MoCA, forthcoming 2025).

Foradas has taught at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and Hunter College. She holds an MA from Williams College and a BA from Bowdoin College.

The Sarah Lee Elson, Class of 1984, International Artist-in-Residence Program

An international artist-in-residence program

Collection Stories

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Art@Bainbridge | Roberto Lugo / Orange and Black

At Art@Bainbridge this winter, ceramic works by the artist Roberto Lugo will be on view alongside a selection of ancient Greek vessels from the Museum’s collections.

Monumental Commission by Nick Cave to Welcome Visitors

When the Museum’s director, chief curator, and curator of modern and contemporary art first sought to commission a work of art for the soaring entrance court of the new Museum, they had only one artist in mind: Nick Cave.

Probing Colonial Fictions with Denilson Baniwa

The Indigenous Amazonian artist Denilson Baniwa (born 1984) tries to lay these biases bare in his work, exposing “colonial fictions” and calling attention to the ongoing effects of colonization.