Trevor Schoonmaker

Trevor Schoonmaker is the Director of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University and has been a curator of contemporary art since his first exhibition in 2000. From February 2015 through February 2018 he was also the Artistic Director of the New Orleans Triennial, "Prospect.4: The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp." From 1999-2006 he was an independent curator in New York and the director of the Fela Project, a multimedia project on the influence of Fela Kuti. In 2001 he co-founded Jump n Funk with DJ Rich Medina, New York's first Fela-inspired club night.