Franklin Sirmans is the director of the Pérez Art Museum Miami. Previously, he was the department head and curator of contemporary art at Los Angeles County Museum of Art from 2010 until fall 2015. At LACMA Sirmans organized "Noah Purifoy: Junk Dada, which travels to the Wexner Center for the Arts" in January 2016. He also curated "Variations: Conversations in and Around Abstract Painting", "Futbol: The Beautiful Game, Ends" and "Exits: Contemporary Art from the Collections of LACMA and the Broad Art Foundation," and coorganized the exhibition "Human Nature: Contemporary Art from the Collection." From 2006 to 2010, he was curator of modern and contemporary Art at The Menil Collection in Houston where he organized several exhibitions including "NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith", "Steve Wolfe: Works on Paper", "Maurizio Cattelan: Is Their Life Before Death?" and "Vija Celmins: Television and Disaster, 1964-1966." He is the 2007 David C. Driskell Prize Winner and he was the artistic director of Prospect.3 New Orleans from 2012-2014.