Hanne Mugaas is a curator who is currently a Curatorial Associate at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. She has been working as an independent curator since 2004, with numerous exhibitions internationally. In 2007-08, she worked as a Curatorial Trainee with Associate Curator Barbara London in the Department of Media and Performance Art at Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, developing the exhibitions Automatic Update, Looking at Music, and Looking at Music: Side 2. In 2008, she founded the gallery Art Since the Summer of '69 on the Lower East Side in Manhattan, which shows have received positive reviews in The New York Times, New York Magazine and Art in America. She is also a Curatorial Associate at Dispatch, Inc.
Mugaas has curated exhibitions and screenings at MoMA, New York; Rhizome and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; Art in General, New York; Moving Image Archive of Contemporary Art (MIACA), Tokyo; Vilma Gold, London; and Ooga Booga, Los Angeles, among many others. Her work is currently included in the exhibition NinteenEightyFour at the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York, and will be included in an upcoming exhibition at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York in the Fall of 2010. Mugaas holds an MFA in Curating from Goldsmiths College in London.