David Senior

David
Senior is the Senior Bibliographer at the Museum of Modern Art Library, where
he manages collection development, including the library’s artists’ books
collection. Senior lectures often on the history of artists’ publications and
contemporary art and design publishing. He also curates exhibitions of MoMA
Library materials including: THE
ELECTRO-LIBRARY (2016), Ray
Johnson Designs (2014), Please
Come to the Show (2013), Millennium
Magazines (2012), Access
to Tools: Publications from the Whole Earth Catalog, 1968–74 (2011).
His current show Back in Time with Time-Based
Works: Artists’ Books at Franklin Furnace, 1976–1980, is on view at
MoMA until Jan. 8, 2017. Please Come to the Show,
a book documenting his exhibition of artists’ invitations and show flyers from
the MoMA Library, was published by Occasional Papers in 2014. His writing has
appeared in Frieze, Dot Dot Dot, Bulletins of the Serving Library, ART PAPERS,
and C Magazine. He organizes a regular program of events for Printed Matter’s
New York Art Book Fair and the LA Art Book Fair called the Classroom. Senior
edited an artist book series through Printed Matter and the NYABF from
2008-2014, which included publications with Dexter Sinister, David Horvitz,
Emily Roysdon, Aaron Flint Jamison, James Hoff and Eve Fowler. He serves on the
advisory committees of Printed Matter, Art Metropole and Art Resources Transfer
and the board of directors of Primary Information and Yale Union.