AMY MACKIE
Amy Mackie is a curator and writer based in New Orleans. She curated numerous exhibitions as the Director of Visual Arts at the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans from 2011 to 2012 and as Curatorial Associate at the New Museum in New York from 2007 to 2010. Mackie was the recipient of a 2013 Curatorial Fellowship from the Stavanger Municipality Culture Department in Norway, a 2010 Research Fellowship at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds, England, to research the work of Helen Chadwick, and a 2009 CEC Artslink Grant through which she organized an exhibition and series of performances by A.L. Steiner + robbinschilds in Sofia, Bulgaria. She has lectured at Bard College, Brooklyn College, the College of Charleston, and Yale University, and has written for Art in America, Art Papers, FANTOM Photographic Quarterly, Pelican Bomb, and Universes in Universe. She was a contributing writer for Jeremy Deller’s It Is What It Is (Creative Time, 2011), Rethinking Contemporary Art and Multicultural Education (New Museum and Routledge, 2010), and Brion Gysin: Dream Machine (New Museum and Merrell, 2010. She curated “It Could Go Either Way: Mariam Ghani + Erin Ellen Kelly” at Rogaland Kunstsenter in Stavanger, Norway in 2014. The exhibition traveled to the Anchorage Museum in Anchorage, Alaska in 2015. Mackie holds a M.A. in curatorial studies from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College and a B.A. in liberal arts from Sarah Lawrence College.
Exhibition: "Clear, Deep, Dark: Julie Morel," Curated by Amy Mackie. November 9 - December 14, 2018.
Exhibition: "Awakening." Juried by Amy Mackie. June 7 - 28, 2014.
Exhibition: "Raw Material: Alyssa Dennia." Curated by Amy Mackie. October 18 - December 15, 2013.