Lind is a curator and critic based in Stockholm, where she was born in 1966. 2008-2010 Director of the graduate program, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College. 2005-2007 Director of Iaspis in Stockholm. 2002-2004 she was the Director of Kunstverein München. From 1997-2001 she was curator at Moderna Museet in Stockholm and, in 1998, co-curator of Manifesta 2, Europe's biennale of contemporary art. Responsible for Moderna Museet Projekt, Lind worked with artists on a series of 29 commissions that took place in a temporary project-space, or within or beyond the Museum in Stockholm. Abstract Possible is her most recent curated project with manifestations at among other places Malmö Konsthall, Museo Tamayo and Tensta konsthall. She is the co-editor of the recent books Curating with Light Luggage and Collected Newsletter (Revolver Archiv für aktuelle Kunst), Taking the Matter into Common Hands: Collaborative Practices in Contemporary Art (Blackdog Publishing), as well as the report European Cultural Policies 2015 (Iaspis and eipcp) and The Greenroom: Reconsidering the Documentary and Contemporary Art (Sternberg Press). She is the 2009 recipient of the Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement. In 2010 Selected Maria Lind Writing was published by Sternberg Press.
