Wexner Center for the Arts: About Us: Christopher Bedford, Curator Of Exhibitions

Christopher Bedford

Chief Curator of Exhibitions

Christopher Bedford, who joined the Wexner Center’s curatorial team in late 2008, curated Six Solos, Hard Targets (a multimedia show exploring sports and masculinity), and Mark Bradford, the first museum survey of the artist's work, which toured the country. He also curated Human Behavior: Nathalie Djurberg and Pipilotti Rist: The Tender Room, a newly commissioned site-specific installation. He has also organized a small Susan Philipsz show and an Alyson Shotz project for the Wex.

For the two years prior to joining the Wexner Center, Bedford was with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) as assistant curator in the Department of Contemporary Art. Bedford is working on various projects with Chris Burden, as well as an exhibition of Paul Sietsema’s work for the Wexner Center in 2012. Before going to LACMA, Bedford served as a curatorial assistant and then consulting curator in the department of sculpture and decorative arts at the Getty Museum in L.A.

Along with co-curators Jennifer Wulffson and Kristina Newhouse, Bedford was the recipient of the 2008 Fellows of Contemporary Art Curators’ Award for the exhibition Superficiality and Superexcrescence. Bedford has published essays, book reviews, editorials and exhibition reviews in a variety of publications, including The Burlington Magazine, Artforum, Art in America, Tema Celeste, Frieze, The Art Book, and more, as well as numerous essays in anthologies and exhibition catalogues. He is currently working on edited volumes for Duke University Press and Sculpture Journal, and is a contributing editor to the Los Angeles-based contemporary art journal X-TRA.

A citizen of the UK, Bedford holds a B.A. in art history from Oberlin College and an M.A. in art history from Case Western Reserve University, and is at work on his PhD in art history at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. At Ohio State, he serves on the Arts & Memorials public art committee.