Nato Thompson

About Me

Nato Thompson joined Creative Time in January 2007, where he curated numerous groundbreaking projects, including *A Subtlety* (2014), *Living as Form* (2011), Trevor Paglen’s *The Last Pictures* (2012), Paul Ramirez Jonas’s *Key to the City* (2010), Jeremy Deller’s *It is What it is* (2009, in collaboration with New Museum curators Laura Hoptman and Amy Mackie), *Democracy in America: The National Campaign* (2008), and Paul Chan’s *Waiting for Godot in New Orleans* (2007). Before this, he served as Curator at MASS MoCA, organizing large-scale exhibitions like *The Interventionists: Art in the Social Sphere* (2004), with its catalogue distributed by MIT Press. Thompson’s writings have been featured in esteemed publications such as *Bookforum*, *Frieze*, *Artforum*, *Third Text*, and the *Huffington Post*, earning him the 2005 Art Journal Award for distinguished writing. He also curated *Experimental Geography* for Independent Curators International, accompanied by a book from Melville House Publishing, and authored *Seeing Power: Art and Activism in the 21st Century*, published in 2015.