Wednesday, Nov 16, 2022

*This event is closed to the public

Amy Smith-Stewart is Chief Curator at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum. Since 2013 she has organized forty-two exhibitions and projects, bringing artists to the Aldrich during pivotal stages of their careers. These include first-time solo museum presentations with artists Milano Chow, Eva LeWitt, and others, as well as survey shows with Jackie Winsor, Harmony Hammond, and Karla Knight. Harmony Hammond: Material Witness, Five Decades of Art was named one of the best exhibitions of 2019 by The New York Times. The show traveled to the Sarasota Art Museum and was accompanied by the artist’s first monograph.

Smith-Stewart’s current curatorial project is 52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone. It revisits the historic exhibition, Twenty Six Contemporary Women Artists, curated by Lucy Lippard in 1971, and joins with it a new roster of 26 female-identifying and nonbinary emerging artists. It tracks the evolution of feminist art practices over half a century.

Amy is founder of the eponymous nomadic, curatorial project, Smith-Stewart, previously located on NYC’s Lower East Side from 2007–2009. She began her career as a curator at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center (now MoMA PS1), where she mounted nineteen exhibitions and projects. From 2006–2007, she was a Curatorial Advisor for the Mary Boone Gallery. Amy also organized exhibitions at Socrates Sculpture Park and the Noguchi Museum, and was the Guest Curator for the Peter Norton Collection. She has taught in the graduate art programs at SVA and Sotheby’s Institute of Art. Her writing has been published in numerous books and catalogs.