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Associate Curator of Photography
Patrick Amsellem joined the Brooklyn Museum in 2007 as Associate Curator of Photography. He organized a small exhibition of photographs, Goodbye Coney Island?, in the fall of 2007; curated Jesper Just: Romantic Delusions, an exhibition of work by Danish artist Jesper Just; and is the co-curator of 21: Selections of Contemporary Art from the Brooklyn Museum, a long-term installation that opened September 19, 2008. Previously he was a curator at the Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art in Malmö, Sweden, where he organized the first Swedish exhibition of the work of Andreas Gursky and was a part of the curatorial team that produced a major series of exhibitions under the leadership of Lars Nittve. He has written extensively about art for Sweden’s major newspaper Svenska Dagbladet and was also a critic for the Swedish daily newspaper Kvällposten and for Swedish Public Radio. Dr. Amsellem has taught at New York University and is the author of several exhibition catalogues. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. in Art History and Architectural History from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University.
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