Art Advisory Board
The role of the Art Advisory Board is to increase Baxter St’s scope of influence within the contemporary art world. With a more formalized schedule of responsibilities, a set calendar of meetings and participation of programming initiatives the Art Advisory Committee will help to enhance the curatorial direction of Baxter St.
Sarah Arison
Sarah Arison is President of the Arison Arts Foundation, a private grant-making organization that supports emerging artists and the institutions that foster them. She was immersed in the arts from a young age by her grandparents, visionary philanthropists Ted and Lin Arison, who founded Arison Arts Foundation, the National YoungArts Foundation, and the New World Symphony, among their many philanthropic endeavors.
Arison is active across a broad cross-section of national arts organizations. She is Chair of the Board of the National YoungArts Foundation, where she has developed strategic partnerships with The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Jacob’s Pillow, Sundance Film Festival and more to provide aspiring talent with presentation and mentorship opportunities. She is President of the Board of the Museum of Modern Art, and serves on the boards of MoMA PS1, American Ballet Theatre, The Kitchen and Aspen Art Museum; she is a trustee of Lincoln Center, New World Symphony and Serpentine Americas Foundation.
Arison has also ventured into film producing, supporting projects that shed light on lesser known aspects of the arts. In 2015, she produced her first feature film, Desert Dancer, starring Freida Pinto. She later went on to co-produce The First Monday in May, a documentary film chronicling the creation of The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute blockbuster exhibition China: Through the Looking Glass. She co-produced The Price of Everything which was acquired by HBO at the Sundance Film Festival, and Aggie which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.
Arison earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business and French with a minor in Art History from Emory University.
Isolde Brielmaier, PhD
Isolde Brielmaier is Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) of Work of Art Holdings (WOAH). An innovative leader in arts and cultural strategy and social impact, Isolde has over two decades of experience working at the intersection of the private, public, academic and non-profit sectors.
Most recently, Isolde served as the Deputy Director and Chief Innovation Officer of the New Museum of Contemporary Art where she was part of the executive team overseeing the venue’s 60,000-square-foot expansion. Prior to this, Isolde served as Founding Executive Director of Arts, Culture & Community initiatives at Westfield World Trade Center, a private sector role in which she developed and scaled strategic partnerships, cultural events, artist projects and installations across Westfield properties—nationally. As an independent consultant, Isolde has developed and contributed to contemporary art and culture initiatives for a broad range of companies including Peninsula Hotel Group, Apple, Theory, Valentino, Art Basel Miami, the Armory Show NY, and ARCO Contemporary Art Fair in Madrid, Spain, among others.
Isolde was previously Curator-at-Large at the International Center for Photography (ICP) in NYC, Chief Curator for the SCAD Museum of Art, and has collaborated with noted contemporary artists including Carrie Mae Weems, Ellen Gallagher, Richard Mosse, Wangechi Mutu, Bill Viola, Tyler Mitchell, and Bharti Kher, to name a few. Isolde holds a PhD from Columbia University, is an Associate Professor at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, and is the author of, I am Sparkling (2022) and the edited volume Culture as Catalyst (2020). She serves as Editor at Large at Air Mail, Graydon Carter’s new media venture and has been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Elle, Vogue, Harpers Bazaar, Modern Luxury, WNYC Radio, CNN, the Washington Post, and Cultured among others.
She is deeply committed to the promotion of social justice and human rights, specifically global women’s issues and criminal justice reform and serves on the board of Prep for Prep New York and the sustainable luxury fashion brand Another Tomorrow, as well as an advisor to the Women’s Prison Association (WPA) and Malaika, an all-girls school in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Isolde speaks regularly on topics related to art, culture, leadership and social impact. She lives in New York City.
Sonel Breslav
Sonel Breslav (she/her) has been the Director of Fairs & Editions for Printed Matter since 2018. In this role, she produces Printed Matter’s NY and LA Art Book Fairs, the leading international gatherings for the distribution of artists’ books, celebrating the full breadth of the art publishing community. Previously, Sonel was National Chapters and Programs Manager at ArtTable, the foremost professional organization dedicated to advancing the leadership of women in the visual arts. From 2013–2017 she was the Director of Murray Guy, New York, where she curated exhibitions of work by gallery artists such as Moyra Davey, Matthew Buckingham, Zoe Leonard, Leidy Churchman, and Alejandro Cesarco, among others. In 2012, she founded Blonde Art Books, an independent organization dedicated to promoting self-published art books through exhibitions, book fairs, public programs, publications, and an online platform.
Andrianna Campbell
Andrianna Campbell-LaFleur received her PhD in Art History from the Graduate and University Center of the City University of New York in 2020. She specializes in art in the modern and contemporary period and her doctoral research focused on Norman Lewis and Abstract Expressionism. Alongside her scholarly research, she is the author of essays and reviews on contemporary art for Artforum, Art in America, and Frieze. In 2016, Campbell was a co-editor of Shift: A Graduate Journal of Visual and Material Culture anda special edition of the International Review of African American Art dedicated to Norman Lewis. She was a co-founding editor of apricota, a journal of literary and contemporary art. She is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards including the Dean K. Harrison Fellowship, the Preservation of American Modernists Award, the Library Fellowship from the American Philosophical Society, the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship at the Dia Art Foundation, the Dissertation Writing Fellowship at the New York Public Library and the CASVA Twelve-Month Chester Dale Fellowship from the National Gallery of Art for 2016-2017.
Jean Marie Casbarian
Jean Marie Casbarian received her MFA from the Milton Avery School of Art at Bard College (2000). Her creative interests lie in the reconstruction of memory, the loss and longing that occurs within personal and political mythologies, and the personal fictions that oftentimes live within one’s family history and displaced cultural identity. Migratory routes, family archives and imagined narratives have been reoccurring themes in her work. Although she defines herself as an interdisciplinary artist (photography, video, writing, sound, and performance), photographic principles have remained at the core of her practice. Historic notions of light, the ephemeral quality of film and the delicate nature of emulsion have been analogous with her interdisciplinary intentions. Casbarian has exhibited her work extensively throughout the United States, Europe, Central America and Asia. Awards include the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, a nomination for the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, the LaNapoule Foundation Grant, the Chicago Artist’s Assistance Project Grant, an Associateship with the Rocky Mountain Women’s Institute and was a Research Associate with Five Colleges Inc in Amherst, Massachusetts. Currently, she teaches in the ICP-Bard MFA Program and One-Year Creative Practice and Documentary Full-Time Programs at the International Center of Photography.
Pradeep Dalal
Pradeep Dalal is Mumbai-born artist and writer based in New York. His solo show “Copy/Scan/Print/Repeat” was recently at Sala Diaz in San Antonio. His work was included in “Compassionate Protocols” at Callicoon Fine Arts, “I need my memories. They are my documents” at sepiaEYE, “Strange Invitation” at Franklin Street Works, “Picturing Parallax” at San Francisco State University, “Vision is Elastic. Thought is Elastic” at Murray Guy and “Fifty Artists Photograph the Future” at Higher Pictures. His photographs were included in BOMB 140, Grey Room 65 Artists Dossier, Blind Spot 43 and Cabinet 52. His artist book “Bhopal, MP” was published in 2017, and was also excerpted in “Chandigarh is in India,” and his essay “A Bifocal Frame of Reference” was published in “Western Artists and India.” He holds an MFA from ICP/Bard College and a MArch from MIT. He is co-chair of the MFA in Photography at Bard College and he directs the Andy Warhol Foundation’s Arts Writers Grant Program in New York. http://www.pradeepdalal.com/
David Deitcher
Born in Montreal, Canada, David Deitcher is a writer, art historian, and critic whose essays have appeared in Artforum, Art in America, Parkett, the Village Voice, and other periodicals, as well as in numerous anthologies and monographs on such artists as Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Isaac Julien, and Wolfgang Tilmans. He is the author of Stone’s Throw (New York, The Secretary Press, 2016) and Dear Friends: American Photographs of Men Together, 1840-1918 (Abrams, 2001) and curator of its accompanying exhibition at the International Center of Photography in New York. Since 2003, he has been core faculty at the International Center of Photography/Bard College Program in Advanced Photographic Studies. He lives in New York City.
Allen Frame
Allen Frame is a photographer and writer, represented by Gitterman Gallery in New York where he has had solo exhibitions of photography in 2005, 2009, and 2013. He is a winner of the 2017/2018 Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome. His 2013 exhibition Dialogue with Bolaño was presented at the Museum of Art of the Sonora in Hermosillo, Mexico, in 2014. Detour, a compilation of his photographs over a decade, was published by Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg in 2001. He has been the recipient of grants from the Penny McCall Foundation, the Peter Reed Foundation, Creative Time, Art Matters, CECArtslink and others. He has been the curator of numerous exhibitions, including Darrel Ellis at Art in General; Bearings: the Female Figure at PS122 Gallery; Anatomy, Persona, and the Moment: Experimental 70’s Photographs of Luigi Di Sarro and Linda Salerno: A Selection of Experimental Photographs from the Black Mirror Series at the Camera Club of New York, and Illusione Persistente and Fuggenti Figure at ACTA International in Rome.He has been a contributing editor for Bomb and written feature articles for The New York Times and other publications. He is an Adjunct Professor of Photography at Pratt Institute (MFA) and also teaches at the School of Visual Arts (BFA), and the International Center of Photography in New York. He has taught workshops in photography extensively in Mexico. He graduated from Harvard University and grew up in Mississippi.
Sheree Hovsepian
Sheree Hovsepian (American, b. Iran) earned her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2002, a dual BFA/BA from the University of Toledo in 1999, and studied at the Glasgow School of Art, Scotland in 1998. Her work highlights the physicality of the photograph and photography’s relationship to the human body. Coaxed into sculptural forms, layered with tactile materials, and assembled into larger compositions, Hovsepian’s pictures oscillate between object and image, creating a sensuous, bodily experience of the photographic document. Recent solo and two-person exhibitions have been organized by Team Bungalow, Los Angeles (with Paul Mpagi Sepuya, 2019), Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago (2018), and Higher Pictures (2017). Recent group exhibitions include Seductive Reduction, CHART Gallery, New York (2019); Material Gestures, Stony Island Arts Bank, Chicago (2019); and Where Do We Stand?, The Drawing Center, New York (2017). Hovsepian’s work is in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Bronx Museum, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Studio Museum in Harlem, among others. She lives and works in New York City.
Justine Kurland
Justine Kurland is an artist known for her utopian photographs of American landscapes and the fringe communities, both real and imagined, that inhabit them. Her early work comprises photographs, taken during many cross-country road trips, that counter the masculinist mythology of the American landscape, offering a radical female imaginary in its place. Her recent series of collages, SCUMB Manifesto, continues to make space for women by transforming books by canonized male photographers through destruction and reparation.
Kurland’s work has been exhibited at museums and galleries in the United States and abroad. Her work is included in permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Carnegie Museum, Pennsylvania; Getty Museum, California; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, among others.
Matthew Leifheit
Matthew Leifheit is an American photographer, magazine editor, and professor. A graduate of Rhode Island School of Design and the Yale School of Art, Leifheit is Editor-in-Chief of MATTE Magazine, the journal of emerging photography he has edited and published since 2010. Leifheit’s photographs have appeared in publications such as The New York Times, The New Yorker, Aperture, TIME, and Artforum, and have been exhibited internationally. He is currently on faculty at Massachusetts College of Art.
Arthur Ou
Arthur Ou is a Taiwanese-American artist and educator based in Queens, New York. He has held solo exhibitions at venues including Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens, Greece (2019), Kathryn Brennan Gallery, New York (2017, 2015, 2013), IT Park Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan (2010, 2005), and Taipei Fine Arts Museum (2000). Ou’s work has been included in group exhibitions at the Grazer Kunstverein, Austria, LAXART, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, the Presentation House, Vancouver, and the Queens Museum. His work was included in the 2012 Daegu Photography Biennial, the 2013 and 2018 Queens International, and the 2006 and 2023 Taipei Biennial. His work has been written about in Artforum, Art in America, the New York Times, and the New Yorker, and has appeared in Aperture, Blind Spot, Camera Austria, and The Photograph as Contemporary Art. He has written critical texts in Aperture, Art in America, Foam, and Osmos. He received his MFA from Yale University School and is an associate professor of photography at Parsons School of Design, a division of the New School. Ou is a 2024 Guggenheim fellow in photography.
Eileen Quinlan
Eileen Quinlan (b. 1972, Boston) earned her MFA from Columbia University in 2005. She had her first solo museum exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston in 2009. Her work is in the permanent collections of Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Hammer Museum, Institute of Contemporary Art / Boston, Ackland Art Museum, Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester and the Seattle Art Museum, among others. Recent exhibitions include Viva Arte Viva, the 57th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, curated by Christine Macel (2017), SYSTEMATICALLY OPEN? New Forms for Contemporary Image Production at the LUMA Foundation, Arles (2016), and Always starts with an encounter: Wols/Eileen Quinlan, produced by Radio Athènes and curated by Helena Papadopoulos at the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens (2016), Image Support at the Bergen Kunsthall (2016), and Transmission, Recreation, and Repetition at the Palais de Beaux-Arts Paris (2015), What Is a Photograph? at the International Center for Photography (New York) (2014), Outside the Lines: Rites of Spring at the Contemporary Art Museum Houston (2014), and New Photography 2013 at the Museum of Modern Art (New York, 2013). Her most recent exhibition of new work, Dune Woman, was on view at Campoli Presti gallery in London in the summer of 2017.
José Parlá
José Parlá, born 1973, studied at Miami Dade Community College, New World School of the Arts and Savannah College of Art & Design. Parlá is a critically acclaimed, multidisciplinary artist in painting, large scale murals, photography, video and sculpture. Layers of paint, gestural drawing and found ephemera combine to evoke the histories of urban environments. Using the backdrop of world cities, he creates abstractions that can appear to be photorealist fragments of what he sees in the chaos and rush of the metropolis. His work reflects the ephemeral layers of walls that show a place that was, but no longer is—built over, renewed in some other configuration, in the present, engaging memory and imagination with the contemporary. His work has been exhibited at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia; The SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah College of Art & Design, Georgia; The Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York; National YoungArts Foundation, Miami, FL; Van Every/Smith Galleries, Davidson College, North Carolina; and The Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba, among others. Parlá’s work is in several public collections including, The British Museum, London, United Kingdom; The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, POLA Museum of Art, Hakone, Japan; and The National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba. Collaborative projects include, The 11th Havana Biennial with Wrinkles of the City: Havana, Cuba project, which was completed in 2012 between Parlá and French artist JR. Parlá also worked with the Caldera Arts Program at The Portland Art Museum where he collaborated with participating youth for his Signature Roots, workshop and installation. Permanent Public Arts projects include commissions by ONE World Trade Center, the University of Texas at Austin, the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Academy of Music, BAM Fisher, North Carolina State University’s Hunt Library by Snøhetta; and at Concord City Place, Toronto, Canada.
Rey Parlá
Rey Parla (b. 1971) is a Cuban American artist residing in Brooklyn, NY. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature with a Certificate in Film Studies (2007) and a Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies (2019) from Florida International University. Parla is celebrated for his innovative “Scratch-Graph” works, a technique that emerged from his hand-painted experimental films of the 1990s, created while he was self-teaching cinematography and filmmaking at The Alliance Film/Video Cooperative. His films have garnered recognition from notable festivals and institutions, including honorable mentions from the Cuban Alternative Film Festival, the Miami Beach Alliance for the Media Arts, The Anti Film Festival, and the 12th Annual Miami International Film Festival, curated by Bruce Posner of the Harvard Film Archives, where his silent film was featured alongside works by Stan Brakhage and Jose Antonio Sistiaga.
Parla’s artistic practice delves into abstraction within the moving image, drawing on the tradition of Visual Music animation. He employs experimental techniques to transform still-frame images into large-scale, distinctive prints known as “Signature-Masks” and “Recursions.” His short films, documentaries, and photographic prints have been showcased at international film festivals, art fairs, and public television. Recent solo exhibitions include Borderless at Happy Lucky No. 1 Gallery in Brooklyn, Intentions at Clear Edition Gallery in Tokyo, and Multiplicities at BenRubi Gallery in New York City, where his work is represented.
In addition to his solo endeavors, Rey Parla collaborates with his brother, artist Jose Parla, at parlastudios.com. Together, they have produced exhibitions, editorial projects, films, and installations across the United States and internationally for over a decade.
Job Piston
Job Piston is a curator, artist, and producer based in New York and Los Angeles. His focus centers on photography and video, exploring themes of science fiction, queer mythology, Asian diasporic narratives, social movements, and avant-garde history. Integrating visual arts with live performance, he is a curator of five iterations of the Performa Biennial in New York with renowned artists such as Tania Bruguera, Judy Chicago, Barbara Kruger, Zanele Muholi, James Welling, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Sara Cwynar, David Gilbert, Kia LaBeija, Jacolby Satterwhite, and Shikeith, among others.
Piston has collaborated on partnerships and projects with Art Basel, The Armory Show, Jessica Silverman Gallery, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, For Freedoms, Performance Space New York, LMCC, The Josie Club, Chanel Arts & Culture, Swarovski, Volcom, and Nowness. Previously, he was at the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts. In 2024, he received a curatorial fellowship at ARC Athens, Banff Centre Residency, and is a Frame Finland grantee. He received a BFA at the California College of the Arts, and an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Antwaun Sargent
Antwaun Sargent is a writer, curator and a director at Gagosian. He is the author of The New Black Vanguard: Photography between Art and Fashion (2019) and Young, Gifted and Black: A New Generation of Artists (2020). Sargent’s most recent museum exhibitions are Rick Lowe: The Arch within the Arc, Barkley Hendricks: Portraits at The Frick, Virgil Abloh: Figures of Speech, and The New Black Vanguard.
Drew Sawyer
Drew Sawyer is an art historian and a curator, who holds the title of the Phillip Leonian and Edith Rosenbaum Leonian Curator at the Brooklyn Museum. He has previously held curatorial positions at the Museum of Modern Art and the Columbus Museum of Art, where he co-founded the Center for Art and Social Engagement through a major grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. He received a 2020 Award for Excellence from the Association of Art Museum Curators. His most recent exhibition, Family Pictures, explored the legacy of Roy DeCarava’s 1955 book The Sweet Flypaper of Life, and included works by John Edmonds, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Lyle Ashton Harris, Deana Lawson, Lorraine O’Grady, Gordon Parks, Sondra Perry, Ming Smith, and Carrie Mae Weems. At Columbus, he also organized solo exhibitions of the work of Lucy Raven and Allan Sekula, as well as several large-scale thematic exhibitions. He is a co-organizer of the upcoming historical survey, Art after Stonewall, 1969 to 1989, which will tour during the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots in 2019. From 2012 to 2015, Drew served as the Beaumont and Nancy Newhall Curatorial Fellow at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He holds a Ph.D. in art history and archaeology from Columbia University, specializing in North American art and visual culture of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Thor Shannon
Thor Shannon is a Senior Director at David Zwirner, based in New York. Before Zwirner, he worked for 7 years at Gavin Brown’s enterprise. Originally from Montreal, Canada, he is an alum of Phillips Academy, Andover, and of New York University, where he studied art history.
Phil Taylor
Phil Taylor is a curator and writer working in the Department of Photography at The Museum of Modern Art. Phil is also a Ph.D. candidate at Princeton University in the Department of Art & Archaeology, where he is finishing a dissertation on the Surrealist photography of Raoul Ubac and the fates of experimental darkroom practice in a time of political crisis. Previously, he was the David E. Finley Fellow 2014-2017 at the Center for Advance Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Phil has published extensively as a critic for Artforum, among other publications, serves on the Editorial Committee of Apricota (co-edited by Andrianna Campbell and Joanna Fiduccia and published by Secretary Press), and is the primary author of Various Small Books: Referencing Various Small Books by Ed Ruscha (MIT Press, 2013). With collaborators at Princeton, he has co-organized a workshop series with artists for the Department of Art & Archaeology, Framing Practices (2013-2014), and a forum series for the Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities, Sensorial Urbanism: The Aesthetics of Immateriality (2018). He lives in Queens, New York.
Mickalene Thomas
Mickalene Thomas is a 2015 United States Artists Francie Bishop Good & David Horvitz Fellow, distinguished visual artist, filmmaker, and curator who has exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally. She is known for paintings that combine art-historical, political, and pop-cultural references. Her work introduces complex notions of femininity and challenges common definitions of beauty and aesthetic representations of women. Thomas holds an MFA from Yale University and a BFA from Pratt Institute. She’s held solo museum exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum, Aspen Museum, and L’Ecole des Beaux Arts, Monaco. Recent solo exhibitions include “Mickalene Thomas: Do I Look Like a Lady?” at MOCA Grand, Los Angeles; “Mickalene Thomas: Mentors, Muses and Celebrities” at Aspen Art Museum and Spelman College, and “Muse: Mickalene Thomas Photographs” at Aperture Foundation, New York, which is scheduled to travel to several venues across the United States through 2019 and features her notably curated exhibition, tête-à-tête. Other recent shows include the group exhibitions “Figuring History” at the Seattle Art Museum, and “You Are Here” at the North Carolina Museum of Art. Thomas’s work is in the permanent collections of New York’s Museum of Modern Art, Brooklyn Museum, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, Hammer Museum, and Smithsonian American Art Museum, among many others. She is also currently working on solo exhibitions at the The Wexner Center for the Arts and the Art Gallery of Ontario. Thomas is represented by Lehmann Maupin, New York and Hong Kong; Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago; and Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris and Brussels. She lives and works in New York.
Helen Toomer
Helen Toomer is a Co-Founder and Artistic Director of STONELEAF RETREAT; a place for artists and creatives to connect and collaborate through a residency program and series of events in the Catskill Mountains of New York. She is an Adjunct Professor at Sotheby’s Institute for Art, teaching Social Media and Marketing of the Arts and The Business of Art Fairs as part of the Art Business Masters program. Helen is the former Director of PULSE Contemporary Art Fair, which she lead for three and a half years and prior to this, she was the Director of Collective Design Fair which she helped launch in New York in 2013. Helen has guest lectured at New York Academy of the Arts, Bournemouth Arts University, Pratt Institute and Christie’s Education, taken part in panel discussions with The Barnes Foundation, 21c Museum Hotel Group, Soho House, NeueHouse and Artsy, and previously taught at the Fashion Institute of Technology. in 2011-2013 she co-founded and managed a contemporary art gallery, toomer labzda, which focused on emerging artists, in the Lower East Side of New York.
Diya Vij
Diya Vij is the Curator at Creative Time and is committed to critically investigating the evolving role of public art in politics and civic life. Over the past decade, she has held programming, curatorial, and communications positions at major New York City Institutions. At Creative Time, she commissions and stewards large-scale public art work, initiates public programs, and helps guide the curatorial direction of the organization. As the Associate Curator of Public Programs at the High Line, she organized dozens of live events and performances with artists, activists, practitioners, and healers. At the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Vij launched and co-directed the Public Artists in Residence (PAIR) program. Additionally, she helped lead the Agency’s citywide Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiative, and played an active role in public monument efforts, as well as CreateNYC—New York City’s first strategic long-term plan for culture. She was a curatorial fellow and the communications manager at the Queens Museum from 2010–2014. She currently serves as the Co-Chair of the Board of A Blade of Grass and on the Boards of the Laundromat Project and The Poetry Project. She was co-curator of the Counterpublic Triennial 2023 in St. Louis, MO.
Hannah Whitaker
Hannah Whitaker is an artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Her work has been shown internationally including at FRAC Normandie Rouen; Galerie Nara Roesler, Sao Paolo; and Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran, Montreal. She was included in the Public Art Fund’s 2017 citywide exhibition, Commercial Break in New York; the 2014 Foam Talent, which traveled to Paris, Amsterdam and Dubai; and Rencontres d’Arles in France in 2012, where she was nominated for the Discovery Prize. In 2020, she was featured in New Visions: The Henie Onstad Triennial for Photography and New Media at the Henie Onstad museum in Norway. In 2021 she published Ursula, a new book of photographs, with Image Text Ithaca Press. Her work is represented by Marinaro, New York; M+B, Los Angeles; and Galerie Christophe Gaillard, Paris.