Introducing Ohio’s WTW2024 Curators – Matt Distel & Sso-Rha Kang
In early 2024, NMWA will open the seventh installment of the Women to Watch series. This next exhibition will gather work from 28 different regions worldwide to explore ideas of “new worlds.”
Women to Watch artists are recommended to NMWA by consulting curators who are deeply connected to the project’s participating regions. This message is part of a series highlighting the consulting curators for ‘Women to Watch 2024.’
OHIO’S CONSULTING CURATORS
Matt Distel (he/him) is exhibitions director for The Carnegie in Covington, KY. Previously, Distel was adjunct curator of contemporary art for the Cincinnati Art Museum; executive director of Visionaries + Voices; and co-founder and director of Country Club, a commercial gallery based in Cincinnati and Los Angeles. A Cincinnati native, Distel has been organizing exhibitions since 1994 with a particular focus on artists from the region. From 2003-7 he was associate curator with the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati. Distel has curated and organized numerous exhibitions and installations including projects with SIMPARCH, Kendell Geers, Guy Ben-ner, Katerina Burin, Temporary Services, The Yes Men, Beth Campbell, Alexis Rockman, Shana Moulton, Future Retrieval and many others.
Sso-Rha Kang (she/her) is a curator and educator based in Cincinnati, OH. She is the Director of Galleries and Outreach at Northern Kentucky University in Highland Heights, KY. Kang’s research interests delve into areas of institutional critique, blankness, and aesthetic experience which are rooted in her penchant for banal, slow, and reductive art.
The Ohio Advisory Group of NMWA is co-chaired by Donna Collins and Sara Vance Waddell.
NMWA extends much gratitude to Matt Distel, Sso-Rha Kang, and the Ohio Advisory Group of NMWA for making their region’s participation in Women to Watch possible.