Emily D. Markert


Curatorial Projects
︎︎︎Exhibitions
︎︎︎Programs
︎︎︎Other

Writing & Editing

Bio
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Upcoming
Amy Sillman
   Dia Bridgehampton (Bridgehampton, NY) 
   Opening June 2025 
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Jack Whitten
   Dia Beacon (Beacon, NY)
   Opening October 2025
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Recently OpenedPhotos: Don Stahl
Steve McQueen
Curated by Donna De Salvo with Emily Markert
Dia Chelsea (New York, NY) 
September 19, 2024 – Summer 2025
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Photo: Bill Jacobson Studio Steve McQueen
Curated by Donna De Salvo with Randy Gibson and Emily Markert
Dia Beacon (Beacon, NY) 
May 12, 2024 – May 2025
Travels to the Schaulager, Basel in June 2025
Learn more or read my interview with the Highlands Current

 
Ongoing and Past
Richard Serra: A Film and Video Exhibition
         Curatorial assistant; Co-organized with Electronic Arts Intermix
         Dia Chelsea (New York, NY) 
         August 21–September 14, 2024
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Marta Minujín: Arte! Arte! Arte!
Curatorial assistant; Curated by Darcy Alexander and Rebecca Shaykin
The Jewish Museum (New York, NY)
November 17, 2023 – March 31, 2024
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Andy Warhol: Shadows
Curated by Donna De Salvo with Emily Markert
Dia Beacon (Beacon, NY)
Opened December 8, 2023 (Long-term view)
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Photo: Bill Jacobson Studio
Mary Heilmann: Starry Night
Curated by Jordan Carter with Emily Markert
Dia Beacon (Beacon, NY)
Opened September 30, 2023 (Long-term view)
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Photos: OWLEY Studios
(be)longing: Art on Grand Street
Curator
Grand Street between Union and Bushwick (Brooklyn, NY) 
June 29 – July 23, 2023 
Learn more or  Watch my interview on NY1




Photo: Don Stahl
Rita McBride: Arena Momentum

Curated by Alexis Lowry with Emily Markert
Dia Beacon (Beacon, NY)
July 1, 2023 – January 2025
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Tony Cokes
Curated by Jordan Carter with Emily Markert
Dia Bridgehampton (Bridgehampton, NY)
June 23, 2023 – May 2024
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Photo: Don Stahl
Chryssa & New York
Curatorial asssistant; Curated by Megan Holly Witko (Dia) and Michelle White (Menil Collection)
Dia Chelsea (New York, NY)
March 2 – July 23, 2023
Traveled to Menil Collection, Houston in 2023 and Wrightwood 659, Chicago in 2024
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Photo: Thomas Barratt
Senga Nengudi

Curated by Matilde Guidelli-Guidi with Emily Markert
Dia Beacon (Beacon, NY)
Opened February 17, 2023 (Long-term view)
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Hervé Guibert, This and More
Curatorial Fellow; Curated by Anthony Huberman
CCA Wattis Institute (San Francisco, CA)
June 9 – July 30, 2022 
Traveled 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
Project and comms manager; Curated by Trisha Lagaso-Goldberg
FOR-SITE Foundation at the Cliff House (San Francisco, CA)
November 7, 2021 – March 27, 2022
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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
Assistant; Curated by 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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2024 
Blind Dates Recursive participatory talk series, held in conjunction with Rita McBride: Arena Momentum
Dia Beacon
Co-organized with Stephen Kwok
        November 11, 2023: Facilitated by Timmy Simonds
        December 9, 2023: Darling Green
        February 3: Salome Asega
        March 9: Elliot Reed
        April 13: Paul Legault 
        June 8: Fred Schmidt-Arenales
        July 13: Rindon Johnson
        August 3: Laurel Schwulst

Momentum, performances held in conjunction with Rita McBride: Arena Momentum
Dia Beacon
Supported as Curatorial Assistant
        February 24 with Hauschka
        May 10 and 12
        October 25–27 

Other programs
April 26: The Book of Night: A conversation with James Hoff and Hannah B Higgins, part of the NY Art Book Fair Classroom series, Dia Chelsea


2023
Artists on Artists Lecture Series

Dia Chelsea
Supported as Curatorial Assistant
Spring 2023
Tiffany Sia on An-My Lê
Marina Rosenfeld with Jessika Kenney on Marian Zazeela
Nicolás Guagnini on Bruce Nauman
Fall 2023
D Harding on Robert Smithson
Margaret Honda on Jack Brogan
Jonathas de Andrade on Sol LeWitt

Other programs
March 5: Immanuel Wilkins performance in conjunction with Leslie Hewitt, Dia Chelsea

May 14: Rashida Bumbray performance in conjunction with Leslie Hewitt, Dia Chelsea

September 23: Matthew Lutz-Kinoy: Filling Station performance at Dia Beacon, co-presented with the Kitchen

October 13–14: Momentum performance in conjunction with Rita McBride: Arena Momentum at Dia Beacon


2022
Public Programme of Si las palabras hablaranYoung Curators Residency Programme exhibition
Madrid, Spain
Performance series
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


2021
February 27: Where Are The Tiny Revolts? at Printed Matter Virtual Art Book Fair, moderated panel discussion presented online via Printed Matter and the CCA Wattis Institute (Watch recording)

On/View Event Series, artist and curator-led virtual walkthroughs
CCA
Organizer and moderator
March 12: 
Tour of Sea Change at Ratio 3 (Watch recording)
April 23: 
(Watch recording)


2020
March 6: The Lost Hour: At the Intersection of Site-specificity and Historicity, moderated panel discussion at PLAySPACE Gallery with Ebti Shedid, Santino Gonzales, and Courtney Odell (Read transcript in publication

Trinh T. Minh-ha Film Club, film screenings with commentary
CCA Wattis Institute (online) 
Co-organizer with Shaelyn Hanes 
        July 2: Night Passage (2004)
        July 9: The Fourth Dimension (2001)
        July 16: Surname Viet, Given Name Nam (1989)
        July 23: A Tale of Love (1995)
(access archived materials or read a review)

October 29: Live with the Archive: Gato Negro, moderated panel discussion presented online via Letterform Archive with Katherine Hamilton (Watch recording)

November 18: Catching Ideas in Process: Jay DeFeo’s Photography
Moderator, moderated panel discussion with Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Rayyane Tabet, and Corey Keller, presented online via The Jay DeFeo Foundation and CCA Wattis Institute (Watch recording)


2018 and earlier
Public Events Organized at Sotheby’s, New York

May 6, 2018: RAMMΣLLZΣΣ: The Artist and the Equation, panel discussion with Carlo McCormick and the Cult of Rammellzee Artist Collective

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


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Other Curatorial Projects and Strategic Initiatives 

Museums of Tomorrow Roundtable
Hosted by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
    Ideation and strategic planning with András Szántó LLC for convening of global museum leaders centered on       museums & technology
    Event dates: April 17–21, 2023 
    Learn more


Fundación Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Young Curators Residency Programme in Madrid
Curatorial residency
    March 1 – May 31, 2022
    Learn more


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, with András Szántó LLC     Open Call launched January 2022, winners announced April 2022
    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
    Click here to learn more


The Just A List 
Curatorial residency
    June 15 – August 15, 2021

    Click here to view current list








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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

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Steve McQueen: Bass
       September 2024, published by Dia Art Foundation and Schaulager, Laurenz Foundation
       Co-editor with Donna De Salvo, Isabel Friedli, Elsa Himmer
        Order here

︎ Marta Minujín: Arte! Arte! Arte! exhibition catalogue
       November 2023, published by The Jewish Museum
       Contributor 
       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


Articles & Essays
︎  “Sara Mejia Kriendler: Seedlings”
        September 2024, PROXYCO Gallery
        Click to read

︎ “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 Dia Art Foundation Texts
︎ Steve McQueen
        May 2024
        Essay contributor
        Click to read

︎ Mary Heilmann: Starry Night
        September 2023
        Essay contributor
        Click to read

︎ Rita McBride: Arena Momentum
 
        June 2023
        Essay co-author
        Click to read

︎ Tony Cokes
        June 2023
        Essay contributor
        Click to read


Select E-Catalogues for Susan Sheehan Gallery 
︎ Art Basel Miami Beach 2022
︎ ADAA Art Show 2022
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Frieze Masters 2022
︎ Art Basel 2022
︎ Art Basel Miami Beach 2021
︎ ADAA Art Show 2021
︎ Art Basel 2021


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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