CURATORIAL PROJECTS

​Amy Jorgensen is currently the Executive Director and Chief Curator at Granary Art Center, a non-profit contemporary exhibition space and forthcoming artist residency program. She has curated over 30 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 projects can be found here

​2017           Signaling Techniques, Kelly Sears
                    Sarah Malakoff, Second Nature
                    Destination Unknown, Jean Richardson
​                    Blue Desert, Geoff Pingree & Rian Brown
                    Washed Up, Alejandro Duran
                    Sustenance and Time, Jane Lindsay
                    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