Staff Profile

Kyle Stephan conducts research on the museums’ Nam June Paik collection and organizes permanent collection installations of modern and contemporary art. Her research focuses on the intersections of aesthetics, politics, technology, and media in contemporary art since 1960, with particular interest in art from Latin America and its diasporas. Stephan has organized exhibitions with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, São Paulo Museum of Art, Bank of Brazil Cultural Center, ZKM Karlsruhe, and the British Film Institute, where she was a curator of film and multimedia art for five years. She is currently working on a book about Chilean artist Juan Downey.