Jessica Silverman

MA Curatorial Practice, 2007

After graduating, Jessica Silverman founded the San Francisco-based Jessica Silverman Gallery, which has a strong concept-driven roster that embraces both rigorously abstract and hyper-figurative work. The gallery has become known for discovering emergent artists in California and bringing them to an international audience as well as introducing foreign artists to the San Francisco Bay Area.

Works by gallery artists have been acquired by notable public collections including MOMA NY, LACMA, the Hammer Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and SFMOMA.

The gallery also has participated in a number of international art fairs, including Frieze (London), FIAC, NADA (Miami Beach, New York, and Cologne), and Dallas Contemporary. The gallery’s shows are regularly reviewed in international publications such as Frieze, Artforum, Flash Art, and Modern Painters.

Silverman was listed in ArtInfo’s 2012 “Top 30 under 30”, a ranking of the top international art professionals under age 30.

She sits on the San Francisco Arts Commission and is committed to bringing art to a broader audience.

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Sarah Sheridan

MA Curatorial Practice, 2008

Sarah Robayo Sheridan has been appointed curator of exhibitions at The Power Plant, Canada’s leading noncollecting contemporary art gallery in her hometown of Toronto. (The position takes effect late 2013.)

Since 2008, Sheridan has worked as director of exhibitions and publications at Mercer Union, a recognized center for contemporary art in Toronto, where she has subsequently curated numerous well-received presentations and exhibitions by artists including Pierre Leguillon (2012), Aleksandra Mir (2011), and Sol LeWitt (2010).

Sheridan was nominated for the Young Curators Invitational, Fondation d'entreprise Ricard, Paris (2009); served as one of the commissioning curators for the annual Scotiabank Nuit Blanche exhibition in Toronto (2010); was a visiting curator at the Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Alberta (2011); and participated as a juror for the Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative (2012).

Outside Canada, she has organized exhibitions in the Netherlands, Egypt, and the United States.

She has also taught in the Department of Visual Studies at the University of Toronto at Mississauga.

Her writing has appeared in arts magazines, anthologies, and artists' monographs, and she was recently awarded a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts to write a history of John Cage's Reunion (originally performed in Toronto in 1968 and restaged by Sheridan in 2010).

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Chris Fitzpatrick

MA Curatorial Practice, 2009

Chris Fitzpatrick is the director of Objectif Exhibitions in Antwerp, Belgium, where his ambitious program has been well reviewed in the European press.

In 2012 Fitzpatrick curated "Portable Holes" for the San Francisco Pavilion in the 9th Shanghai Biennale and Sõida tasa üle silla, as part of the ART IST KUKU NU UT festival in Tartu, Estonia, and he participated in the Institutions by Artists conference in Vancouver.

Independent international projects include co-curating the “Present Future” section of Artissima 18, Turin (2011); conducting a 25-person conversation for The Baltic Notebooks of Anthony Blunt, Vilnius (2011); and project managing Mark Dion’s solo show at Oakland Museum of California (2009-10).

Curatorial residencies include FIAC/Fondation d’enterprise Ricard, Paris (2010); Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin (2010); and the Banff Centre, Alberta (2009).

He has spoken at institutions such as Witte de With, Rotterdam (2012); Ptarmijan, Tallinn (2011); the Goethe Institut, New York (2011); Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco (2011); and Bruce High Quality Foundation University, New York (2010).

Among the publications he's contributed to are Pazmaker, Nero, Mousse, Fillip, Cura, The Baltic Notebooks of Anthony Blunt as well as exhibition catalogs and books.

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Amanda Hunt

MA Curatorial Practice, 2011

Amanda Hunt is a curator at LAXART, one of the leading spaces in Los Angeles.

Although a resident in Los Angeles for only just over a year, Hunt has already been named as one of Refinery29's "30 Under 30 Angelenos to watch" in recognition of her activities in support of the local art community.

She recently produced aspects of the Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival, a collaboration with the Getty Research Institute, and Made in L.A. 2012, the first Los Angeles Biennial, organized by the Hammer Museum in collaboration with LAXART.

In addition to curating, she has written about a number of artists -- five of her texts can be read in the Made in LA 201 catalog -- and her essay on artist Valerie Piraino will appear in the Studio Museum’s forthcoming Fore exhibition catalog.

Earlier this year Hunt curated a one-night video series at Various Small Fires (Venice, California).

Coming up in January 2013: Hunt's first show at LAXART, which features New York-based artist Steffani Jemison; and an invitation to guest curate an exhibition at artist-run space Actual Size Los Angeles.

See more of Amanda Hunt's work at the SAATCHI "100 Curators in 100 Days" online feature »

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