Biography
Director of the Jeu de Paume
Born in 1965, a graduate of the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris and the Institut National du Patrimoine, Quentin Bajac became curator of photography at the Musée d’Orsay in 1995,
before moving to the Pompidou Centre in 2003. He held the chair in the History of Photography at École du Louvre, then in 2010 he was appointed Head of the Photography Department at the Centre Pompidou. He has curated various modern and contemporary photo exhibitions, including William Klein (2005), La Subversion des images : Surréalisme, photographie, film (2009), et Voici Paris : Modernités photographiques, 1920-1950 - La collection Christian Bouqueret (2012).
From 2013 to 2018, Quentin Bajac was Head Curator for Photography at MoMA. He organized A World of Its Own: Photographic Practices in the Studio (2014), Scenes for a New Heritage: Contemporary Art from the Collection (2015), Stephen Shore (2018). He was co-curator of the exhibition Being Modern: MoMA in Paris at Fondation Louis Vuitton (2017).
Quentin Bajac is appointed director of the Jeu de Paume in 2019.
