Nato Thompson is Associate Curator at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) and curator for 2004's landmark exhibition "The Interventionists: Art in the Social Sphere." His wide-ranging interests spaces have found him working not only at MASS MoCA but also with the Contemporary Artist's Center in West Adams, Massachusetts; the Department of Space and Land Reclamation in Chicago; and the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, based in Los Angeles.  Thompson's writings have appeared in numerous publications, and his 2004 essay "Strategic Visuality: A Project by Four Artist/Researchers" won the prestigious Art Journal award.  With Gregory Sholette, he is co-editor of The Interventionists: A Users Manual to the Creative Disruption of Everyday Life and edited the exhibition catalog Becoming Animal, both published by the MIT Press. Nato Thompson holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Essays:
Contributions to a Resistant Visual Culture Glossary
The Flip Side to the Commodification of Revolution

Links:
Department of Space and Land Reclamation
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art