Matthew Yokobosky
Bio
Matthew Yokobosky is the Director of Exhibition Design at the Brooklyn Museum. He originally joined the Brooklyn Museum in 1999, and was promoted to Chief Designer in 2002, and Director of Exhibition Design in 2017. Over the past eighteen years, he has designed over 85 temporary and permanent exhibitions, including the critically-acclaimed Luce Center for American Art: Visible Storage Study Center (2001/2005), Basquiat (2005), Annie Leibovitz (2006-7), ©MURAKAMI (2008), Who Shot Rock & Roll (2009), American High Style: Fashioning a National Collection (2010), The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier (2013), Killer Heels: The Art of the High-Heeled Shoe (2014) and Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern (2017). Prior to joining the Brooklyn Museum, Matthew was the associate curator of film and video at the Whitney Museum of American Art (where he curated No Wave Cinema, 78-87 (which looked at the alt-filmmaking movement in NYC’s East Village) and Fashion & Film, 1997). Additionally, he designed of the 1995 Whitney Biennial and The American Century: Art and Culture, 1900-1950, among other Whitney exhibitions. Matthew has also won a Bessie award for set and costume design for his work with Ping Chong, and has travelled to over 50 countries, including such far away places as Bolivia, Cote d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Myanmar and Uzbekistan. Here Yokobosky discusses the career twists that lead him to his current job, the psychology and people skills involved in designing museum exhibitions, and his specific experiences working on David Bowie is, the sprawling traveling exhibition of Bowie’s work that makes its final stop in NYC.