ERIC BOOKER

Eric Booker is Associate Curator at Storm King Art Center, a 500-acre outdoor museum located in New York’s Hudson Valley. Previously he held the position of Assistant Curator & Exhibition Coordinator at The Studio Museum in Harlem. Committed to working alongside artists of diverse backgrounds and with underrecognized histories, he has cultivated ambitious projects through critical research, collaboration, and care. While at the Studio Museum, Booker organized an array of exhibitions, performances, and site-specific installations, as well as guided the institution’s public art commissions by artists including Firelei Báez, Chloë Bass, Kevin Beasley, Maren Hassinger, Simone Leigh, and Thomas J Price.

 As part of his ongoing work to center artists challenging dominant histories and institutional structures, his first book, Smokehouse Associates, brings the underrecognized work of the artist collective formed by William T. Williams to the fore. Published by the Studio Museum and distributed by Yale University Press, Smokehouse Associates was named one of the “Best Art Books of 2022” by The New York Times. Booker received a Graham Foundation Grant for the project in 2019.

 Booker’s curatorial credits include Method Order Metric at The National Academy of Design (2016); Jamel Shabazz: Crossing 125th, Smokehouse 1968–1970, and Regarding the Figure at The Studio Museum in Harlem (2017); Inside, Out Here at La MaMa Galleria (2018); Autumn Knight: WALL at the Studio Museum and Danspace Project (2019); and Beatriz Cortez: The Volcano That Left at Storm King Art Center (2023). He has held positions at the Guggenheim Museum, The Foundation for Contemporary Arts, The Calder Foundation, and The National Academy of Design.