CURATORIAL PROJECTS
Amy Jorgensen is a co-founder of Granary Arts and is the Executive Director and Chief Curator. Dedicated to the arts as a facilitator, maker, and educator, she has curated over 90 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 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 Chair of Visual Arts, 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 and programming can be found HERE
2024 Chelle Barbour: Juxtaposing Afro-Surrealism
Connected to the Land: Odette England, Ray Farmer, Carly Jakins, Jane Roberts DeGroff, Elizabeth Stone
Eileen Quinlan: Under Water
Elpitha Tsoutsounakis: Geontological Survey of Fossil Grains
Crossroads: Change in Rural America, Smithsonian Institution & Snow College Library
In The Field
Peter Everett / Le Meridien
Fidalis Buehler: The Wayside and Whispers
2023 Greater Utah, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT
Beth Krensky: Gathering Light with US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Ben Altman: The More That Is Taken Away with US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Lydia Gravis / Le Meridien
Shalee Cooper / Le Meridien
Rachel Stallings Thomander: Isla de Lechuga
Bernard Meyers: Constructions
Liberty Blake / Le Meridien
John Sproul: Walking the Dark
Jiyoun Lee-Lodge: Waterman
2022 The Center Can Not Hold / curated by Hikmet Loe, Ann Mooney, John Sperano, Hannah Vaughn
Jorge Rojas: Material Witness
Kristin Pohsen: Gohst Pearls
Laura Sharp Wilson: Chiasma / curated by Scotti Hill
Tomiko Jones: Hatsubon, Granary Arts
Lydia Gravis: Survival and Resilience
Jane Roberts DeGroff: Gifts of the Sanpete Land
2021 The New Beehive with Utah Arts & Museums
Katie Hargrave + Meredith Laura Lynn: Over Look / Under Foot
Dale Peel: Oil Paintings, Snow College Huntsman Library
Wendy Wischer + Brenda Bowen: Evaporated: Explorations in Art, Science, and Salt
Our Valley Speaks: A Sanpete Experience / curated by David Lindsay
Ashley Hanson + Brain Laidlaw: Bird’s Eye Chisel
Holly Hooper: Sanpete Views
Jann Haworth + Liberty Blake: Work in Progress
Daniel George: God to Go West
Fazilat Soukhakian: Anonymous Battle
Nancy Rivera + Denae Shanidiin: Facing Home
Steven Stallings Cardenas: Pan Para Mi
2020 Lawn Gnomes 2020: UMOCA + Granary Arts
Incubation Period: PARC Collective
Megan Knobloch Geilman + Ron Richmond: Works of Translation
Paul Adams & Jordan Layton: Vanishing Voices
Sara Lynne Lindsay: Inherited Ground
Jan Andrews: Honor and Dissonance
Adama Delphine Fawundu: Tingoi / Curated by J. Sybylla Smith
Kari Laine: The Rhisome Remains / Curated by J. Sybylla Smith
2019 Richard Gate: Anthology
DE | MARCATION A Survey of Contemporary Photography in Utah
Jackie Leishman: Heaving Into Mountains
Lisa McCarty: Photosite Array
Horacio Rodriguez: Subversive Souvenirs
Collin Bradford: Temporary Configurations of Earth’s Matter
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
Additional information and images related to curatorial projects and programming can be found HERE
2024 Chelle Barbour: Juxtaposing Afro-Surrealism
Connected to the Land: Odette England, Ray Farmer, Carly Jakins, Jane Roberts DeGroff, Elizabeth Stone
Eileen Quinlan: Under Water
Elpitha Tsoutsounakis: Geontological Survey of Fossil Grains
Crossroads: Change in Rural America, Smithsonian Institution & Snow College Library
In The Field
Peter Everett / Le Meridien
Fidalis Buehler: The Wayside and Whispers
2023 Greater Utah, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT
Beth Krensky: Gathering Light with US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Ben Altman: The More That Is Taken Away with US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Lydia Gravis / Le Meridien
Shalee Cooper / Le Meridien
Rachel Stallings Thomander: Isla de Lechuga
Bernard Meyers: Constructions
Liberty Blake / Le Meridien
John Sproul: Walking the Dark
Jiyoun Lee-Lodge: Waterman
2022 The Center Can Not Hold / curated by Hikmet Loe, Ann Mooney, John Sperano, Hannah Vaughn
Jorge Rojas: Material Witness
Kristin Pohsen: Gohst Pearls
Laura Sharp Wilson: Chiasma / curated by Scotti Hill
Tomiko Jones: Hatsubon, Granary Arts
Lydia Gravis: Survival and Resilience
Jane Roberts DeGroff: Gifts of the Sanpete Land
2021 The New Beehive with Utah Arts & Museums
Katie Hargrave + Meredith Laura Lynn: Over Look / Under Foot
Dale Peel: Oil Paintings, Snow College Huntsman Library
Wendy Wischer + Brenda Bowen: Evaporated: Explorations in Art, Science, and Salt
Our Valley Speaks: A Sanpete Experience / curated by David Lindsay
Ashley Hanson + Brain Laidlaw: Bird’s Eye Chisel
Holly Hooper: Sanpete Views
Jann Haworth + Liberty Blake: Work in Progress
Daniel George: God to Go West
Fazilat Soukhakian: Anonymous Battle
Nancy Rivera + Denae Shanidiin: Facing Home
Steven Stallings Cardenas: Pan Para Mi
2020 Lawn Gnomes 2020: UMOCA + Granary Arts
Incubation Period: PARC Collective
Megan Knobloch Geilman + Ron Richmond: Works of Translation
Paul Adams & Jordan Layton: Vanishing Voices
Sara Lynne Lindsay: Inherited Ground
Jan Andrews: Honor and Dissonance
Adama Delphine Fawundu: Tingoi / Curated by J. Sybylla Smith
Kari Laine: The Rhisome Remains / Curated by J. Sybylla Smith
2019 Richard Gate: Anthology
DE | MARCATION A Survey of Contemporary Photography in Utah
Jackie Leishman: Heaving Into Mountains
Lisa McCarty: Photosite Array
Horacio Rodriguez: Subversive Souvenirs
Collin Bradford: Temporary Configurations of Earth’s Matter
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