The Whitney Museum of American Art has announced that Jay Sanders will be joining the museum’s staff as a curator beginning in July. Sanders most recently cocurated the 2012 Whitney Biennial, with Elisabeth Sussman. In 2008 Sanders curated “Looking Back: The Third White Columns Annual” at White Columns, New York. In 2007 he organized a film and video installation, with artist Paul Chan, titled Change our fates, hobble the plague, start with time, at the Lyon Biennale. From 2005 until 2010, Sanders served as a gallery director at Greene Naftali in New York.

Donna De Salvo, chief curator and deputy director for programs, stated: “Over the past decade, Jay has distinguished himself as an innovative curator with a distinctly original voice. We are thrilled that he is joining the Whitney’s curatorial team. Jay is a nuanced thinker across media—the visual arts, performing arts, film, and the spoken word—in ways that make him a perfect fit for the Whitney and its expanded notion of art in the United States. We look forward to what Jay will accomplish in the immediate future, as well as in the Whitney’s new building under construction downtown. We are especially pleased to welcome Jay at this historic moment.”