Kahlil Robert Irving Artist Talk with Lynne Cooke & Taylor Jasper,
Oct 3, 2025

Please join us on Friday, October 3rd at 6:30 PM for a conversation with Dr. Lynne Cooke, Taylor Jasper and Kahlil Robert Irving about his exhibition, EF3+E40, on view at CANADA through October 18.

Dr. Lynne Cooke
Independent Curator and Writer

Lynne Cooke is an independent curator and writer. From 2012 - 2014 Cooke was the Andrew W. Mellon Professor at the Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (The Center) at the National Gallery, where she engaged in independent research for Outliers and American Vanguard Art, an exhibition about the relationship between mainstream and self-taught artists in the United States from the early 20th century to the present. From 2014 through 2025, she served as the senior curator in the department of modern and contemporary art at the National Gallery.

Before arriving at The Center, Cooke was deputy director and chief curator at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid, Spain (2008–2012); curator at the Dia Art Foundation in New York (1991–2008); artistic director at the 10th Biennale of Sydney (1994–1996); co-curator of 1991 Carnegie International at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh; and lecturer in history of art at University College, London University. She has also taught at Yale University, Malmö Art Academy, CCS, Bard College, and La Trobe University.

Cooke is the curator of Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction, which will open at the National Gallery of Art in March 2024. Other exhibitions she has organized include Cristina Iglesias: A Place of Reflection (Casa Franca-Brasil, 2013); Rosemarie Trockel: A Cosmos (Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, New Museum, and Serpentine Gallery, 2012–2013); Blinky Palermo: Retrospective 1964–1977 (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and Dia Beacon/CCS Bard College, 2010–2011); Francis Alÿs, Fabiola at Dia (Hispanic Society of America, 2007 and touring); Zoe Leonard: You See I Am Here After All (Dia Beacon, 2008); Richard Serra Sculpture: Forty Years, co-curated with Kynaston McShine (Museum of Modern Art, 2007); and the 1996 Sydney Biennale.

Cooke has received many awards and is widely published. She has authored or written for art journals, including The Burlington Magazine, and exhibition catalogues about the work of such artists as Alighiero Boetti, James Castle, James Coleman, Willem de Kooning, Sonia Delaunay, Ann Hamilton, Zoe Leonard, Agnes Martin, Richard Serra, and Bill Traylor.

Cooke received her PhD from London University, focusing on the early works of Willem de Kooning, her MA from the Courtauld Institute, and her BA from Melbourne University. She resides in Washington, DC, and New York City.

Taylor Jasper
Susan and Rob White Associate Curator of Visual Arts at the Walker Art Center

Since joining the Walker in 2023, her curatorial projects and exhibitions have included This Must Be the Place (2024), a reinstallation of the Walker’s permanent collection; Sadie Barnette: The New Eagle Creek Saloon (2024); and Kandis Williams: A Surface (2025). From 2020 to 2023, Jasper served as Curatorial Associate, Visual and Performing Arts at The Momentary, where she supported exhibitions including Yvette Mayorga: what a time to be (2022), Cauleen Smith: Space Station: Radiant Behind the Sun (2021), Diana Al-Hadid: Ash in the Trade Winds (2021), and Garrett Bradley: American Rhapsody (2021). Prior to the Momentary, she was a Curatorial Research Assistant at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, contributing to the exhibition and catalogue The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse. Jasper was born and raised in Richmond, VA, and received her BA in Black Studies and Art History from the College of William & Mary in 2018.