Experience

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  Brooklyn Museum

  • United States
  • Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
  • 300 - 400 Employee

  • Associate Curator. Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art

    • Jul 2018 - Present

    ▪ Lead curator, "María Magdalena Campos-Pons: Behold," a major four-venue survey of the MacArthurFellowship-winning multi-disciplinary artist, in collaboration with the J. Paul Getty Museum; organizedsold-out symposium and historic new performance; editor of 100-plate Behold publication▪ Curated exhibitions: "Baseera Khan: I Am an Archive" (2021–22); "Kameelah Janan Rasheed: Are WeReading Closely?" (2020); "Nobody Promised You Tomorrow: Art 50 Years After Stonewall" (2019) exploring LGBTQ+ artists working in the legacy of the Stonewall Uprising, curated in a cross-departmental collective; "Roots of The Dinner Party: History in the Making" (2017)▪ Co-curated "Art on the Stoop: Sunset Screenings" (2020); "Out of Place: A Feminist Look at the Collection" (2020); "Half the Picture: A Feminist Look at the Collection" (2018–19); and "Something to Say: Brooklyn Hi-Art! Machine, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Deborah Kass, and Hank Willis Thomas" (2018–19)▪ Organized the Brooklyn presentations of "Andy Warhol: Revelation" (2021–22); "Radical Women: LatinAmerican Art, 1960–85" (2018) and "Marilyn Minter: Pretty/Dirty" (2016–17), including new additions▪ Contributing to staff-wide Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Access initiatives and committees▪ Programming for Council for Feminist Art, Contemporary Art Committee, Young Leadership patrons▪ Expanding the collection with research, strategy, and securing gifts of works by María Berrío, JudyChicago, Wendy Red Star, Joan Snyder, among others; and purchases of work by Campos-Pons and Stacy Lynn Waddell, among others

  • Assistant Curator, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art

    • Jun 2016 - Present

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  (various)

  • Curator, Etc.

    • Nov 2009 - Present

    In addition to my work at various museums, I have pursued additional institutional and community-building curatorial opportunities. Highlights include: ▪ Writing for: Dyani White Hawk mid-career retrospective (Kemper Art Museum, 2020); Review of "Unspeakable Acts" (Women's Art Journ...

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  Guggenheim Museum

  • Greater New York City Area

  • Assistant Curator, Collections

    • Dec 2010 - May 2016
    • Greater New York City Area

    - Co-curated "Now’s the Time: Recent Acquisitions" (2012–13); and major contemporary collection exhibition of 48 global artists and over 100 artworks "Storylines: Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim" (2015); creating extended labels, tours, public programs, events, artist talks...

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  Whitney Museum of American Art

  • Greater New York City Area

  • Project Cataloguer, Prints and Drawings

    • Sep 2008 - Oct 2010
    • Greater New York City Area

    - Catalogued, researched, and provided documentation for 11,478 prints and drawings in the Museum’s collection as a part of the Collection Documentation Initiative- Standardized operating procedures and cataloguing standards for collection artworks

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  The Museum of Modern Art

  • Greater New York City Area

  • 12-Month Intern, Drawings

    • Sep 2007 - Sep 2008
    • Greater New York City Area

    - Researched and composed didactic texts for collection rotations "Glossolalia: Languages of Drawing" and "Pipe, Glass, Bottle of Rum: The Art of Appropriation" and extended-length wall texts for traveling exhibition "New Perspectives in Latin American Art"- Authored...

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  El Museo del Barrio

  • Summer Intern

    • Jun 2007 - Aug 2007

    - Engaged artist research for adult programs, community events, and children’s workshops- Conceived and planned fall programming for The (S) Files: El Museo’s Bienal

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  University of Richmond

  • Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art

  • Summer Fellow

    • May 2006 - Aug 2006
    • Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art

    Co-curated, researched, and designed two exhibitions: "What’s New? Recent Gifts in The Three University Museums" and "Lasting Impressions: Celebrating the 5th Anniversary of the Joel and Lila Harnett Print Study Center" during 10-week curatorial fellowship

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  The Newark Museum

  • Summer Intern

    • 2005 - 2005

    - Catalogued, photographed, and classified collection objects- Assisted in organization and publicity for the Black Film Festival and Latino Film Festival