Benjamin Weil

Born and raised in Paris, Benjamin Weil studied art history before moving to
New York in 1985, where he worked as Assistant Curator for a major private art
collection until 1989. He also attended the Curatorial Training Program of the
Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice (1987) and is an alumnus of the
Whitney Independent Study Program (graduating in 1989). He then worked as
an independent curator and art critic, publishing regularly in specialized
magazines – he also was a New York correspondent for Flash Art International
(1992-95). In 1995, he co-founded Ada Web, the first digital studio dedicated to
the production of art projects online and was its Artistic Director until 1997. In
1998, he was appointed as Director of the New Media Department at ICA
London, before moving in 2000 to San Francisco, to assume the position of
Curator of Media Arts at SFMOMA where he was responsible for the collection
of Media Arts as well as of an exhibition and a film program. He also launched a
sound art program and commissioned art projects for the museum’s web site. He joined Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian in early 2021 to assume the position of Director of CAM (Centro de Arte Moderna).