Museum of Modern Art Director Glenn D. Lowry announced that Christophe Cherix has been appointed to the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Chief Curator of Prints and Illustrated Books at the museum. Cherix will guide all aspects of the department, including its installations, acquisitions, exhibitions, and loan programs. Mr. Cherix has served as Curator of Prints and Illustrated Books at MoMA since 2007. He succeeds Deborah Wye, who will assume the position of Chief Curator Emerita.

"Christophe is an outstanding curator who has demonstrated leadership in organizing exhibitions and working with MoMA's extensive collection of prints and illustrated books," said Mr. Lowry.  "He brings to this position a critically important breadth of knowledge and passion for modern and contemporary printed art that is matched by his ability to work with colleagues across the institution and beyond."

Cherix's concentration is modern and contemporary art, with a particular focus on printed art of the ‘60s and ‘70s. He has specialized in such American artists as Carl Andre, Robert Morris, Barry Le Va, Allen Ruppersberg, and Mel Bochner, and in European figures including John M. Armleder, Maurizio Nannucci, and Lucy McKenzie. A longstanding interest of Cherix has been artists' books, and at one point in his career he co-founded a publishing house where this medium was a focal point. As commissioner of the 25th Biennial of Graphic Arts in Slovenia in 2003, he featured artists' books as well as a range of printed works that expanded traditional definitions of the medium.

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Associate Director for MoMA Kathy Halbreich and Christophe Cherix. Photo: Jason Kempin/Getty Images North America.