CURATORIAL PROJECTS
Amy Jorgensen is currently the co-founder/co-director and Chief Curator at Granary Art Center, a non-profit contemporary exhibition space and forthcoming artist residency program. She has curated over 25 exhibitions, and served as a juror for the UMOCA Doctorow Prize and Springville Museum of Art Spring Salon. She is an appointed member of the Utah Arts Council Board of Directors and also is a member of the Acquisition Committee for the Utah State Fine Art Collection. 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 regularly about issues related to curatorial practice and her work as a practicing artist.
Additional information on curatorial work can be found here
2017 Blue Desert, Geoff Pingree & Rian Brown (upcoming)
Washed Up, Alejandro Duran (upcoming)
Jane Lindsay (upcoming)
Rachel Farmer (upcoming)
Shattered, Wendy Wischer
Difficult Truths, Kate Kretz
Fourth Grade Project, Judy Gelles
2016 40 Moons, Elizabeth Stone
Tourists of the New Sublime: Trent Alvey & Andrew Rice, Curator: Scotti Hill
Interstices, Stephanie Leitch
Things That Might Otherwise Be Forgotten, Diane Meyer
Beyond Structure, Curator: Jason Lanegan
Our Common Voice, Trent Alvey
Artnauts: Diaspora and Movement
Postive Space of Silence, Sandy Brunvand
Portable Sanctuaries, Beth Krensky
7 Steps Forward 7 Steps Back, V. Kim Martinez
2015 Entwined, Pam Bowman
Collect / Compress, Maddison Colvin
Burst Apart / Burst A Part, Josh Winegar
Rat Fink, Curator: Laura Allred Hurtado
The Covered Cars, Todd Sanchionni
A Measure of Salt: Contemporary Artists Engaging Great Salt Lake, Curator: Hikmet Loe
#Blessed, Christin Acunas
2014 Journey Stories, Smithsonian Institution
Swapping Stories
Going This Way, Curator: Kelly Brooks
By Car, By Plane, By Boat, By Train, Curator: Adam Larsen
Notice His American Shirt, Curator: Rebecca Maksym
Utah Big Foot: Encounters Within the Unexplained, Kimberly Anderson & Michael Slade
Land + Performance + Place, Curator: Laura Allred Hurtado
Kathleen 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
Amy Jorgensen is currently the co-founder/co-director and Chief Curator at Granary Art Center, a non-profit contemporary exhibition space and forthcoming artist residency program. She has curated over 25 exhibitions, and served as a juror for the UMOCA Doctorow Prize and Springville Museum of Art Spring Salon. She is an appointed member of the Utah Arts Council Board of Directors and also is a member of the Acquisition Committee for the Utah State Fine Art Collection. 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 regularly about issues related to curatorial practice and her work as a practicing artist.
Additional information on curatorial work can be found here
2017 Blue Desert, Geoff Pingree & Rian Brown (upcoming)
Washed Up, Alejandro Duran (upcoming)
Jane Lindsay (upcoming)
Rachel Farmer (upcoming)
Shattered, Wendy Wischer
Difficult Truths, Kate Kretz
Fourth Grade Project, Judy Gelles
2016 40 Moons, Elizabeth Stone
Tourists of the New Sublime: Trent Alvey & Andrew Rice, Curator: Scotti Hill
Interstices, Stephanie Leitch
Things That Might Otherwise Be Forgotten, Diane Meyer
Beyond Structure, Curator: Jason Lanegan
Our Common Voice, Trent Alvey
Artnauts: Diaspora and Movement
Postive Space of Silence, Sandy Brunvand
Portable Sanctuaries, Beth Krensky
7 Steps Forward 7 Steps Back, V. Kim Martinez
2015 Entwined, Pam Bowman
Collect / Compress, Maddison Colvin
Burst Apart / Burst A Part, Josh Winegar
Rat Fink, Curator: Laura Allred Hurtado
The Covered Cars, Todd Sanchionni
A Measure of Salt: Contemporary Artists Engaging Great Salt Lake, Curator: Hikmet Loe
#Blessed, Christin Acunas
2014 Journey Stories, Smithsonian Institution
Swapping Stories
Going This Way, Curator: Kelly Brooks
By Car, By Plane, By Boat, By Train, Curator: Adam Larsen
Notice His American Shirt, Curator: Rebecca Maksym
Utah Big Foot: Encounters Within the Unexplained, Kimberly Anderson & Michael Slade
Land + Performance + Place, Curator: Laura Allred Hurtado
Kathleen 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
