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INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART PROMOTES MEG ONLI AS THE ANDREA B. LAPORTE ASSOCIATE CURATOR October 2, 2019 PHILADELPHIA, PA Today, John McInerney, Interim Daniel W. Dietrich, II Director at the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania announced the promotion of Meg Onli as the Andrea B. Laporte Associate Curator, effective immediately. MegOnli’s work attends to the intricacies of language and race. She joined ICA in 2016 as Assistant Curator and in 2017 curated the critically acclaimed exhibition Speech/Acts, which explored how black American experiences have been shaped by the social and cultural constructs of language. The recent opening of Meg's latest exhibition Banal Presents marks the realization of the final chapter of Colored People Time, a pioneering three-part presentation exploring race, history, and time over the course of a year. In 2019, Meg was awarded the Transformation Award from the Leeway Foundation in recognition of her achievements and is currently a Warhol Foundation Curatorial Fellow. “I am thrilled to announce Meg’s new position as the Andrea B. Laporte Associate Curator,” said John McInerney, Interim ICA Director.“Meg has been an invaluable member of the ICA curatorial team since 2016 and this appointment is a well-deserved recognition of her talent and achievements. Her work examining the intricacies of race, language and power has brought an important and exciting voice into the institution.” “I continue to value working alongside Meg, even more so today. It is important to have colleagues with whom you can be vulnerable, criticize, challenge, support, and laugh in equal measure,” said Daniel and Brett Sundheim Chief Curator Anthony Elms. “She genuinely loves welcoming people into conversations. Conversations we all should be having. Her

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engagement with pressing issues in art and society are richly rewarding and distinctly textured. I appreciate everything she offers to the ICA and to Philadelphia.” Prior to her work at ICA, Meg was Program Coordinator at the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, where she worked on the exhibitions Architecture of Independence: African Modernism and Barbara Kasten: Stages. In 2014, she was the recipient of a research grant from the Graham Foundation for the collaborative projectRemaking the Black Metropolis: Contemporary Art, Urbanity, and Blackness in Americawith curator Jamilee Polson Lacy. She created the website Black Visual Archive in 2010, an achievement that was awarded a 2012 Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Art Writers Grant. Meg holds a Master’s degree in art history from the Courtauld Institute of Art and her writing has appeared in Art21, Daily Serving, and Art Papers. The Andrea B. Laporte Associate Curator is funded by a generous gift made to ICA’s endowment by Andrea Berry Laporte, NU’69. ABOUT THE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA The Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania is a non-collecting institution presenting exhibitions at the forefront of contemporary practice and culture that challenge audiences to think in new ways. The ICA is free for all to engage and connect with the art of our time. Since its founding in 1963, ICA has served as a laboratory for the new, introducing and supporting the production of urgent and important contemporary art, beginning with ICA’s inaugural show of paintings by Abstract Expressionist Clyfford Still, followed by the first museum show of works by Andy Warhol in 1965. Throughout its history, ICA has been instrumental in identifying and developing many promising artists before they attained prominence within the international art world, some of whom include—in addition to Warhol—Richard Artschwager, Vija Celmins, Alex Da Corte, Karen Kilimnik, Barry Le Va, Glenn Ligon, Robert Mapplethorpe, Agnes Martin, Pepón Osorio, Cauleen Smith, Tavares Strachan, and Charlene von Heyl.