CURATORS

Mathilde Walker-Billaud

Guest Curatorial Program (2025)

Phantom Sun

Walker-Billaud is a curator, writer, and educator working across media and contexts, with a special
interest in time-based art and discursive practices. Dialogic,research-driven, and intersectional in her
approach, she is committed to interpreting and presenting art thatreflects the cultural, social, and
ecological complexities of ourtime while challenging traditional categorizations and dominant
narratives.
Walker-Billaud is currently the Curator of Programs and Engagement at the American Folk Art
Museum in New York (Lenapehoking), where she curated Ana Pi’s performance series A Dance for
Madalena (2025), co-curated the film series Radical Institutions and Experimental Psychiatry: The Legacy
of Francesc Tosquelles on Film (with Sonia Epstein, 2024) and co-edited the proceedings Unexpected
Partners: Self-Taught Art and Modernism in Interwar America (2024).

Walker-Billaud’s independent curatorial projects include the group exhibition Noise of the Flesh. Score
for Gina Pane at Frac des Pays de la Loire, France (2023), the interdisciplinary program Jeanne Duval: A
Spectre in a French Landscape at the Centre Pompidou (2021); and the film and performance series
Flaherty NYC: Surface Knowledge (with Courtney Stephens, 2019). She is the recipient of the 2019
BKH Curator Award for which she presented the group exhibition The World Is Gone, I Must Carry You
at Bonniers Kunsthal, Sweden.
Her writing and voice have appeared in E-Flux Journal, BOMB Magazine, ART PAPERS, Movement
Research Performance Journal and the podcast Benjamin Walker’s Theory of Everything. She was a
guest speaker at UnionDocs, CCS Bard, Colgate University, MoMA Doc Fortnight 2022, Cinema
Island Film Festival, and a curator-in-residence at AIR351 in Lisbon, Portugal. She holds a Master of
Arts from the Centerfor Curatorial Studies, Bard College.