Sarah Cho (she/her) is Assistant Curator at the Queens Museum, where she collaborates with creatives and community partners. Previously, she was the Curatorial Assistant of American Painting & Sculpture and Decorative Arts at the Baltimore Museum of Art where she co-curated Beatrice Glow: Once the Smoke Clears (2022) and contributed to Oletha DeVane: Traces of the Spirit (2019); By Their Creative Force: American Women Modernists (2019); Free Form: 20th Century Studio Craft (2019); Katharina Grosse: Is It You? (2020); She Knew Where She Was Going: Gee’s Bend Quilts and Civil Rights (2021); Guarding the Art (2022); and the American Modernism permanent collection reinstallation (2022). Originally from Queens, she received her BA from Princeton University.
Installation shot of Beatrice Glow: Once the Smoke Clears by Mitro Hoo
Alt text: The first room in the exhibition Beatrice Glow: Once the Smoke Clears. On a central, dark brown pedestal, there are three 3D-printed white and blue tobacco jars with gold lids. The jars feature tobacco-related imagery from 19th and 20th century money. Behind the pedestal, the walls of the gallery are covered in a wallpaper that features a repeating pattern of fragments of the tobacco jars. The bottom two-thirds of the wallpaper are the blue and white fragments, while the top third are the gold fragments. The wallpaper also features a background gradation that changes from dark brown to smoky grey from bottom to top.
