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Neil Benezra is a sound designer, re-recording mixer, and composer for film, theater, and museum and gallery installations. He has collaborated with such internationally acclaimed directors and artists as Dara Birnbaum, Louise Bourgeois, Abel Ferrara, Richard Foreman, Nan Goldin, Joan Jonas, and Laurie Simmons.
- A 20-Year Legacy at SFMOMA
- 2021 Continuity Plans
- Early Career + Education
Neal Benezra will leave behind a strong history of achievement and collaboration from his years at SFMOMA. A Bay Area native whose childhood visits to SFMOMA inspired his career in museums, Benezra began his role as Helen and Charles Schwab Director at SFMOMA in 2002, a tenure as director only exceeded by the museum’s founding director, Grace McCan...
In 2021, Benezra will prioritize stabilizing the museum from the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and reopening to the public when it is safe to do so. In May, the museum will present the retrospective Nam June Paik, the only United States venue for this important exhibition. This spring, SFMOMA will embark upon one of its most ambitious projects y...
Neal Benezra formerly served as Deputy Director and Frances and Thomas Dittmer Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, a dual position he assumed in 2000. Previously, he spent eight years at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., where he was Assistant Director f...
View Neil Benezra’s profile on LinkedIn, a professional community of 1 billion members. Finding a place where sound design and music intersect to create an organic sonic…
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Brooklyn Sound & Image is run by Neil Benezra, a sound designer, rerecording mixer and composer for film, museum, gallery, and theater.
Born, raised, and educated in the Bay Area, Neal Benezra received degrees in the history of art and in political science from the University of California–Berkeley, and a PhD in the history of art from Stanford University.
Neil Benezra is a composer and sound designer for film, museum, gallery, and theater. He is currently a visiting assistant professor and lecturer in the Film and Video, Continuing and Professional Studies department at Pratt Institute.
Feb 9, 2021 · Neal Benezra, the longtime director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, is stepping down. According to the New York Times, which first reported the news, Benezra will help the museum...
