Michael Darling has been the James W. Alsdorf Chief Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, since 2010. From 2006 to 2010, he was the Jon and Mary Shirley Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Seattle Art Museum and Associate Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, from 1998 to 2006. He has also written extensively on contemporary art, architecture, and design for exhibition catalogues, magazines, and newspapers since 1992.