Mark Beasley is a British curator and writer based in Washington DC. He is currently the inaugural Robert and Arlene Kogod Secretarial Scholar, Curator of Media and Performance Art at the Hirshhorn Museum. Recent exhibitions at the Hirshhorn museum include the Smithsonian’s first live performance program “Does The Body Rule the Mind;” “Yoko Ono: Four Works for Washington and the World” and “The Message: New Media Works.” Formerly a curator at the visual arts biennial Performa, New York, he organized Mike Kelley’s ‘Day Is Done’ at Judson Church; Arto Lindsay’s ‘Somewhere I Read’; Frances Stark and Mark Leckey’s ‘Put a Song in Your Thing’ at Abrons Theater; Robert Ashley’s ‘That Morning Thing’ at the Kitchen and the experimental music festival, ‘A Fantastic World Superimposed on Reality’ co-curated with Mike Kelley. In 2016 he worked with the band New Order for the Manchester International Festival and developed the inaugural Okayama Art Summit, Japan, with artist Liam Gillick and in 2015 he curated the Sunday Sessions performance program for Greater New York at MoMA PS1. As a curator with Creative Time he curated Plot09: This World & Nearer Ones; Hey Hey Glossolalia: Exhibiting the Voice; and Javier Tellez’s critically acclaimed film A Letter on the Blind. In 2011 he established the Malcolm McLaren Award at Performa; Lou Reed presented the inaugural award to Ragnar Kjartansson for ‘Bliss.’ Beasley graduated from the Royal College of Art and completed a Ph.D. in Fine Art at Reading University, UK. He is a contributor to many art periodicals including Frieze; E-Flux; Art Forum and The Serving Library and has written catalogue and supporting essays for MoMA publications; the British Council and the ICA London. His first LP with the New Based music duo Big Legs is available on the London-and Amsterdam-based Junior Aspirin Records.