Thomas J. Lax

Thomas J. Lax is Curator of Media and Performance at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. He recently co-organized the exhibition Judson Dance Theater: The Work is Never Done and is currently preparing the exhibition Just Above Midtown: 1974 to the Present. At MoMA, he has also co-organized Unfinished Conversations: New Work from the Collection (2017), Neïl Beloufa: The Colonies (2016) and Steffani Jemison: Promise Machine (2015), among others, and edited the book Modern Dance: Ralph Lemon (2016). Previously, Lax worked at the Studio Museum in Harlem for seven years. Thomas is on the board of Danspace Project and teaches at Wesleyan University. He is on the advisory committees of Contemporary And, The Laundromat Project, Participant Inc., and Recess Assembly. Thomas holds degrees in Africana Studies and Art History from Brown University and Columbia University. In 2015, he was awarded the Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement and he was a 2017 Center for Curatorial Leadership Fellow.