Christopher Y. Lew

Christopher Y. Lew is an American art curator, an associate curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and with (Mia locks) co-curator of the 2017 edition of the Whitney Biennial. Prior to his position at the Whitney he was an associate curator at MoMA PS1. At PS1, among other exhibitions, he curated, "Taster's Choice", which presented three artists and one artist collective whose predominant focus is upon both process and content in their art.

In 2014 Lew left his PS1 post for a role as an associate curator at the Whitney and once there organized shows by Rachel Rose and Jared Madere. The following year he was appointed co-curator (along with Ms. Locks) of the 2017 Whitney Biennial, which has been hailed as an unqualified success in the press, by among others Roberta Smith who in writing about the exhibition in the New York Times relates.... "Since moving downtown, the Whitney Museum of American Art has grown up, thanks to a larger, dashing new building, more ambitious exhibitions and new responsibilities brought by rising attendance and membership. No surprise, its biennial has grown up, too. Perhaps less expected: So has the art in it. This show’s strength and focus make it doubly important at a time when art, the humanities and the act of thinking itself seem under attack in Washington".... . This Biennial is the first one to be held in the museum's' new Meatpacking District structure designed by Renzo Piano.