João Ribas on Robert Smithson

João Ribas is curator at the MIT List Visual Arts Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was previously curator at the Drawing Center, New York. He is the winner of four consecutive AICA Exhibition Awards (2008–11) and of an Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award (2010). His recent exhibitions include Joachim Koester: To navigate, in a genuine way, in the unknown... (2012); Stan VanDerBeek: The Culture Intercom (2011); Manon de Boer: Between Perception and Sensation (Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, 2011); FAX (2011); Frances Stark: This could become a gimick [sic] or an honest articulation of the workings of the mind (2010); and Ree Morton: At the Still Point of the Turning World (2009).