CURATORIAL PROJECTS
Amy Jorgensen is a co-founder of Granary Arts and is currently the Executive Director and Chief Curator. Dedicated to the arts as a facilitator, maker, and educator, she has curated over 50 exhibitions of international artists working in contemporary art and is an appointed member of the Utah Arts Council Board of Directors and Acquisition Committee for the Utah State Fine Art Collection. Jorgensen was the juror for the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art Doctorow Prize and Springville Museum of Art Spring Salon, has presented at the Mountain West Arts Conference, and recently gave the keynote address at the Business of Art Conference. In addition to her role at Granary Arts, Jorgensen is an Associate Professor of Visual Art at Snow College where she is head of photography and works as a practicing artist. Her recent exhibitions include Elizabeth Houston Gallery in NYC, LA><Art in Los Angeles, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), GuatePhoto Festival, AIPAD, and Oceanside Museum of Art. Jorgensen was born in Milan, Italy, she received a BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Tufts University, and an MFA from the University of California San Diego. She lectures and writes regularly about issues related to curatorial practice, arts advocacy, and her work as a practicing artist. Jorgensen wholeheartedly embraces the practice of building the community you want to be a part of.
Additional information and images related to curatorial projects can be found HERE
2019 DE|MARCATION A Survey of Contemporary Photography in Utah (upcoming)
Jackie Leishman: From Yosemite (upcoming)
Richard Gate: Anthology
2018 Kim Raff: Land Of The Free
Page Turner: Total Plentitude: A Congregation of Seeker Sisters
Liza Sylvester: Captioned / Curator: Jason Judd
Barbara Ciurej & Lindsay Lochman: Processed Views: Surveying the Industrial Landscape
Amy Theiss Giese: Concealed At First, At Last I Appear
Rachel Farmer: Looking Forward / Looking Back
Peter Everett: Dark Attractor
Elizabeth M. Claffey: Matrinlinear
2017 Jean Richardson: Destination Unknown
Sarah Malakoff: Second Nature
Kelly Sears: Signaling Techniques
Alejandro Duran: Washed Up
Jane Lindsay: Sustenance and Time
Rian Brown & Geoff Pingree: Blue Desert: Towards Antarctica
Lenka Konopasek: Dark Territory
Wendy Wischer: Shattered
Kate Kretz: Difficult Truths
Judy Gelles: Fourth Grade Project
2016 Elizabeth Stone: 40 Moons
Tourists of the New Sublime: Trent Alvey & Andrew Rice / Curator: Scotti Hill
Stephanie Leitch: Interstices
Diane Meyer: Things That Might Otherwise Be Forgotten
Beyond Structure, Curator: Jason Lanegan
Trent Alvey: Our Common Voice
Artnauts: Diaspora and Movement
Sandy Brunvand: Postive Space of Silence
Beth Krensky: Portable Sanctuaries
V. Kim Martinez: 7 Steps Forward 7 Steps Back
2015 Pam Bowman: Entwined
Maddison Colvin: Collect / Compress
Josh Winegar: Burst Apart / Burst A Part
Rat Fink, Curator: Laura Allred Hurtado
Todd Sanchionni: The Covered Cars
A Measure of Salt: Contemporary Artists Engaging Great Salt Lake / Curator: Hikmet Loe
Christin Acunas: #Blessed
2014 Journey Stories, Granary Art Center & Huntsman Library
Go This Way / Curator: Kelly Brooks
By Car, By Plane, By Boat, By Train / Curator: Adam Larsen
Notice His American Shirt / Curator: Rebecca Maksym
Kimberly Anderson & Michael Slade: Utah Big Foot: Encounters Within the Unexplained
Land Performance Place / Curator: Laura Hurtado
Kathy Peterson: Local Dialects
JUROR
2016 92nd Annual Spring Salon, Springville Museum of Art
2015 Doctorow Prize for Contemporary Painting, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art
Prize Winner: Firelei Baez
2014 Westminster College, Visual Arts Student Annual Exhibition
Additional information and images related to curatorial projects can be found HERE
2019 DE|MARCATION A Survey of Contemporary Photography in Utah (upcoming)
Jackie Leishman: From Yosemite (upcoming)
Richard Gate: Anthology
2018 Kim Raff: Land Of The Free
Page Turner: Total Plentitude: A Congregation of Seeker Sisters
Liza Sylvester: Captioned / Curator: Jason Judd
Barbara Ciurej & Lindsay Lochman: Processed Views: Surveying the Industrial Landscape
Amy Theiss Giese: Concealed At First, At Last I Appear
Rachel Farmer: Looking Forward / Looking Back
Peter Everett: Dark Attractor
Elizabeth M. Claffey: Matrinlinear
2017 Jean Richardson: Destination Unknown
Sarah Malakoff: Second Nature
Kelly Sears: Signaling Techniques
Alejandro Duran: Washed Up
Jane Lindsay: Sustenance and Time
Rian Brown & Geoff Pingree: Blue Desert: Towards Antarctica
Lenka Konopasek: Dark Territory
Wendy Wischer: Shattered
Kate Kretz: Difficult Truths
Judy Gelles: Fourth Grade Project
2016 Elizabeth Stone: 40 Moons
Tourists of the New Sublime: Trent Alvey & Andrew Rice / Curator: Scotti Hill
Stephanie Leitch: Interstices
Diane Meyer: Things That Might Otherwise Be Forgotten
Beyond Structure, Curator: Jason Lanegan
Trent Alvey: Our Common Voice
Artnauts: Diaspora and Movement
Sandy Brunvand: Postive Space of Silence
Beth Krensky: Portable Sanctuaries
V. Kim Martinez: 7 Steps Forward 7 Steps Back
2015 Pam Bowman: Entwined
Maddison Colvin: Collect / Compress
Josh Winegar: Burst Apart / Burst A Part
Rat Fink, Curator: Laura Allred Hurtado
Todd Sanchionni: The Covered Cars
A Measure of Salt: Contemporary Artists Engaging Great Salt Lake / Curator: Hikmet Loe
Christin Acunas: #Blessed
2014 Journey Stories, Granary Art Center & Huntsman Library
Go This Way / Curator: Kelly Brooks
By Car, By Plane, By Boat, By Train / Curator: Adam Larsen
Notice His American Shirt / Curator: Rebecca Maksym
Kimberly Anderson & Michael Slade: Utah Big Foot: Encounters Within the Unexplained
Land Performance Place / Curator: Laura Hurtado
Kathy Peterson: Local Dialects
JUROR
2016 92nd Annual Spring Salon, Springville Museum of Art
2015 Doctorow Prize for Contemporary Painting, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art
Prize Winner: Firelei Baez
2014 Westminster College, Visual Arts Student Annual Exhibition