The Aldrich Names Amy Smith-Stewart Senior Curator

The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum is pleased to announce that it has appointed Amy Smith-Stewart as Senior Curator. Smith-Stewart has been Curator at the Museum since September 2013 where she has organized twenty-nine exhibitions and projects. On view now at the Museum are three exhibitions organized by Smith-Stewart, Harmony Hammond: Material Witness, Five Decades of Art (accompanied by the artist’s first hardbound monograph co-published with Gregory R. Miller & Co.); N. Dash; and Sara Cwynar: Gilded Age.

Smith-Stewart’s unique perspective has brought artists to The Aldrich during seminal stages of their careers—up and coming artists, such as Hayal Pozanti, Julia Rommel, David Brooks, Xaviera Simmons, Virginia Overton, and Jessi Reaves and mid-to-late career artists such as Mary Beth Edelson, Jackie Winsor, Suzanne McClelland, Ruth Root, and B. Wurtz. Future curatorial projects at The Aldrich include first-time solo museum exhibitions of Eva LeWitt, Genesis Belanger, and Lucia Hierro.

“During her tenure at The Aldrich, Amy has organized incredible exhibitions that have brought deserving artists and bodies of work the attention they deserve—an undertaking at the heart of the Museum’s mission. I’m particularly delighted by the work she has done to bring women artists to The Aldrich, as evidenced by the three stellar shows she organized that are currently on view by Harmony Hammond, N. Dash, and Sara Cwynar,” stated Cybele Maylone, Executive Director at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum.

Smith-Stewart has organized more than sixty exhibitions in museums, collections, galleries, and temporary spaces. She began her career as a curator at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center (now MoMA PS1). Prior to working at The Aldrich, she was the founder of the eponymous nomadic curatorial project, Smith-Stewart, located on the Lower East Side, a curatorial advisor for the Mary Boone Gallery, and the 2006-08 Guest Curator for the Peter Norton Collection. She has also served on faculty at the School of the Visual Arts, MFA Fine Arts department and the Sotheby’s Institute of Art MA Contemporary Art program.

ABOUT THE MUSEUM
Founded by Larry Aldrich in 1964, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum is dedicated to fostering the work of innovative artists whose ideas and interpretations of the world around us serve as a platform to encourage creative thinking. The Aldrich is one of the few independent, non-collecting contemporary art museums in the United States and the only museum in Connecticut devoted to contemporary art. The Museum is a national leader in the exhibition of significant and thought-provoking contemporary art, with an emphasis on emerging and mid-career artists. Since 1964, The Aldrich’s innovative exhibitions have presented the work of more than 8,000 artists.