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 35 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 on curatorial projects can be found HERE

2018          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