Emily D. Markert


Curatorial Projects
︎︎︎Exhibitions
︎︎︎Programs
︎︎︎Other

Writing & Editing

Bio
CV


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Upcoming
Steve McQueen
Curatorial Assistant
Dia Beacon (Beacon, NY) 
Opens May 12, 2024; travels to the Schaulager, Basel in June 2025
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Steve McQueen
Curatorial Assistant
Dia Chelsea (New York, NY) 
Opens September 19, 2024
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Recently Opened
Andy Warhol: Shadows
Curatorial Assistant
Dia Beacon (Beacon, NY)
Opened December 8, 2023 (Long-term view)
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Ongoing and Past
Marta Minujín: Arte! Arte! Arte!
Curatorial Assistant
The Jewish Museum (New York, NY)
November 17, 2023 – March 31, 2024
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Mary Heilmann: Starry Night
Curatorial Assistant
Dia Beacon (Beacon, NY)
Opened September 30, 2023 (Long-term view)
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(be)longing: Art on Grand Street
Curator
Grand Street between Union and Bushwick (Brooklyn, NY) 
June 29 – July 23, 2023 
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         Watch feature on NY1 below:



Rita McBride: Arena Momentum
Curatorial Assistant
Dia Beacon (Beacon, NY)
July 1, 2023 – January 2025
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Tony Cokes
Curatorial Assistant
Dia Bridgehampton (Bridgehampton, NY)
June 23, 2023 – May 2024
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Chryssa & New York
Dia Chelsea (New York, NY)
March 2 – July 23, 2023
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Senga Nengudi

Curatorial Assistant
Dia Beacon (Beacon, NY)
Opened February 17, 2023 (Long-term view)
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Caldonia: Concert and Film Posters from the Ralph DeLuca Collection
Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art (Las Vegas, NV) 
July 15 – October 2, 2022
Traveled from Salon 94, New York
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Hervé Guibert, This and More
Curatorial Fellow
CCA Wattis Institute (San Francisco, CA)
June 9 – July 30, 2022 
Travels to Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome and KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin in 2023
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Si las palabras hablaran (If words could talk)
Co-curator
Fundación Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Madrid, Spain)
May 26 – June 25, 2022
Culminating exhibition of the 2022 Young Curators Residency Programme
Learn more or download the exhibition guide




LANDS END
FOR-SITE Foundation at the Cliff House (San Francisco, CA)
November 7, 2021 – March 27, 2022
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Paola Pivi: We Are The Baby Gang
MGM Aria Resort (Las Vegas, NV)
September 7 – November 5, 2021
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Contact Traces 
Co-curator
CCA Wattis Institute (San Francisco, CA)
March 9 – June 6, 2021
Learn more or take a virtual audio tour




Silence Unseen
Curator
Online via CCA Libraries (San Francisco, CA)
May 10, 2021 – Ongoing
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Forgotten Ephemera: The Alliance of Figurative Artists
Curator
Online via CCA Libraries (San Francisco, CA)
May 10, 2021 – Ongoing
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Familiar Faces
Curator
Online via CCA Libraries (San Francisco, CA)
March 5, 2021 – Ongoing 
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Playing with Scale, Part Two: between us, about them
Organizer
Online and in directors’ homes, via CCA PLAySPACE Gallery (San Francisco, CA)
October 9 – November 30, 2020 
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A Book Like a Fist: Gato Negro’s Grammar of Radicality
    Co-curator
    Online
    Opened May 2020 *reimagined online due to Covid-19
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Playing with Scale: Part One
Co-curator
CCA PLAySPACE Gallery (San Francisco, CA)
February 27 – August 15, 2020 *transitioned online & extended due to Covid-19
Click here for the exhibition website or download the exhibition catalog 




Art in Odd Places 2018: BODY
Support for Curator Katya Grokhovsky 
Gallery exhibition: October 4–27, 2018 
Performance art festival: October 11–14, 2018
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A Tale of Two Houses: Homewood, Clifton, and Historic Preservation
Co-curator
Homewood Museum (Baltimore, MD)
December 10, 2013 – May 25, 2014
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Remaking American Literature: Poe, Lanier and Whitman In and Out of the Archive
Co-curator
Johns Hopkins Special Collections (Baltimore, MD)
February – May 2012
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Events and Performances at Dia Art Foundation

Blind Dates Recursive organized with Stephen Kwok
  • Series of participatory talk programs presented in connection with Rita McBride: Arena Momentum exhibition
  • Monthly from November 2023 through April 2024
Performances Supported as Curatorial Assistant
  • September 23, 2023: Matthew Lutz-Kinoy: Filling Station co-presented with the Kitchen
  • October 13-14, 2023: Momentum (subsequent performances in February, May, and November 2024)
  • Spring 2023: Performance series in connection with Leslie Hewitt exhibition including Rashida Bumbray and Immanuel Wilkins
Artists on Artists Series Supported as Curatorial Assistant
  • Fall 2023: D Harding on Robert Smithson; Margaret Honda on Jack Brogan; Jonathas de Andrade on Sol LeWitt
  • Spring 2023: Tiffany Sia on An-My Lê; Marina Rosenfeld with Jessika Kenney on Marian Zazeela; Nicolás Guagnini on Bruce Nauman


Public Programme of Si las palabras hablaran

Series of performances as part of the exhibition for the Young Curators Residency Programme, Spring 2022
  • May 26:  PERRO O NADA. Imprevisto número 2, a happening by Silbatriz Pons 
  • May 28: Improvisation I by Laia Estruch
  • May 28: Tears of the Calabash by Babasy, Opoku, and Tahirou Drabo
  • June 5: The country left and we remained performed by Las Caminantas del Teatro
  • June 9: Prelude to an anticolonial songbook by Adrian Schindler with Hassan Lahjari
  • June 9: Anecdotes From the Elsewhere by Arash Fayez with TRIIM


On/View Event Series 
Organizer and moderator, artist and curator-led virtual walkthroughs 

Where Are The Tiny Revolts? at Printed Matter Virtual Art Book Fair
Q&A Moderator, panel discussion presented online via Printed Matter and the CCA Wattis Institute 

Catching Ideas in Process: Jay DeFeo’s Photography
Moderator, panel discussion presented online via The Jay DeFeo Foundation (Berkeley) + Wattis Institute (San Francisco)


Live with the Archive: Gato Negro
Participant, panel discussion presented online via Letterform Archive (San Francisco)

Trinh T. Minh-ha Film Club Series
Co-host with Shaelyn Hanes presented on YouTube with research-based live commentary via Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts (San Francisco, CA)


The Lost Hour: At the Intersection of Site-specificity and Historicit
Moderator, panel discussion at PLAySPACE Gallery (San Francisco, CA)

Public Events Organized at Sotheby’s, New York

RAMMΣLLZΣΣ: The Artist and the Equation  
Panel discussion
  • Speakers: Curator Carlo McCormick and the Cult of Rammellzee Artist Collective
  • May 6, 2018

Who Owns Creativity: A Panel on Artistic Collaboration, Appropriation and Ownership
Panel discussion
  • Speakers: Jesse Finkelstein, Print All Over Me; Casey Fremont, Art Production Fund; curator Emie Diamond; artist Nir Hod
  • May 7, 2017







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Museums of Tomorrow Roundtable hosted by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Ideation and strategic planning for convening of global museum leaders centered on museums & technology
Event dates: April 17–21, 2023 
Click here to learn more




Fundación Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Young Curators Residency Programme in Madrid
Curatorial residency
March 1 – May 31, 2022
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Art for Climate Action: The Frankenthaler Climate Art Awards
A project of Asia Society and the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation with the Hirshhorn Museum, National Gallery of Art, Phillips Collection, Environmental Defense Fund, Kennedy Center
Ideation, planning, and implementation, including jury participation 
Open Call launched January 2022, winners announced April 2022
Click here to learn more or follow on instagram



Unfinished Camp

An initiative of András Szántó LLC and Hans Ulrich Obrist
Strategic support
Convenings in Basel, New York, and Venice throughout 2021  – 2022
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The Just A List 
Curatorial residency
June 15 – August 15, 2021

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Master’s Thesis
︎ Not for the Uncommitted: The Alliance of Figurative Artists, 1969–1975
April 2021
Advisor: Katy Siegel, PhD
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Publications
︎ Marta Minujín: Arte! Arte! Arte! exhibition catalogue
       November 2023, published by The Jewish Museum
       Contributor 
       Pre-order here

︎ Rita McBride: Momentum Manifesto exhibition publication poster
       September 2023, published by Dia Art Foundation
       Co-Editor
       Available for free at Dia Beacon

︎ Imagining the Future Museum: 21 Dialogues with Architects by András Szántó
       January 2023, published by Hatje Cantz
       Managing Editor
       Order here

︎ The Artist’s Books of Andy Warhol 
       September 2021, published by Susan Sheehan Gallery
       Writer
       Click to view

︎  Contact Traces exhibition catalogue
        May 2021, published by CCA
Co-editor and contributor
Order here or click to download 

︎  Playing with Scale: A Publication exhibition catalogue
July 2020, published by CCA
Editor and contributor
Click to download

︎  Revolution of the Eye: Modern Art and the Birth of American Television exhibition catalogue
2015, published by The Jewish Museum
Researcher for Dr. Maurice Berger
         Order here


Select Dia Art Foundation Texts
︎ Mary Heilmann: Starry Night
        Essay contributor
        June 2023
        Click to read

︎ Rita McBride: Arena Momentum
 
        Essay contributor
        June 2023
        Click to read

︎ Tony Cokes 
        Essay contributor
        June 2023
        Click to read


Articles & Essays
︎ ”Dolores Furtado: Vestigio”
        September 2023, PROXYCO Gallery
        Click to read

︎ ”Alice Neel Didn’t Work Alone”
        August 2021, Hyperallergic
        Click to read

︎ “Hands-Off: John Baldessari and the Early Years of CalArts”
June 2020, Wattis Institute
Click to read

︎ “Portraits for 2020”
May 2020, CCA MFA 2020 Exhibition
Click to read


Select E-Catalogues for Susan Sheehan Gallery
︎ Art Basel | Miami
       December 2022
       Click to view

︎ ADAA Art Show | New York
       November 2022
       Click to view

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Frieze Masters | London
       October 2022
       Click to view

︎ Art Basel | Basel 
       June 2022
       Click to view

︎ Art Basel | Miami 
       December 2021
       Click to view

︎ ADAA Art Show | New York 
       November 2021
       Click to view

︎ Art Basel | Basel
       September 2021
       Click to view


Select Articles on Sothebys.com (2016-2017)
︎ The Modern TEFAF: An Interview with Michael Plummer and Jeff Rabin
︎  Meet 3 Artists Exhibiting at Accessible Art Fair New York
︎  5 Questions for Patrick Van Maris, CEO of TEFAF  
︎  Spanish Fashion in Mexico
︎  A Night in Van Gogh’s Bedroom
︎  Museums in Sync









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Exhibitions

Shown in order from left to right

Life Imitates Art: Sotheby's New York Employee Art Show
Juried group show
Sotheby’s (New York, NY)
August 8-16, 2019

Every Woman Biennial
Group show curated by C. Finley
LaMaMa Galleria (New York, NY)
May 19-29, 2019 
 
In Conversation: Sotheby's New York Employee Art Show
Juried group show
Sotheby’s (New York, NY)
August 7-23, 2017
 
1010 Residency Exhibition
Group show and performance series - culmination of year-long residency program
Bushwick Open Studios (Brooklyn, NY)
September 22-24, 2017
 



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