Sara Krajewski

Sara Krajewski

Program

CCL Class of 2019

Institution

Portland Art Museum

Title

Eichholz Senior Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art

Residency

Colby College Museum of Art

Mentor

Sharon Corwin, Colby College Museum of Art

Sara Krajewski is the Robert and Mercedes Eichholz Senior Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Portland Art Museum. Appointed in 2015, Krajewski has expanded the contemporary art program through exhibitions, performances, commissions, collection development, and publications, and she has fostered collaborations that bring together artists, curators, educators, and the public to ask questions around access, equity, and new institutional models. Recent exhibition projects include: Hank Willis Thomas: All Things Being Equal...; Hito Steyerl: This is the Future; We.Construct.Marvels.Between.Monuments.; Josh Kline: Freedom; and Placing the Golden Spike: Landscapes of the Anthropocene. From 2012–2015, Krajewski was the Director of INOVA (Institute of Visual Arts) at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where she curated an array of interdisciplinary exhibitions and performances. Her prior positions include curatorial roles at the Henry Art Gallery, the Harvard Art Museum and the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art. Krajewski was awarded a curatorial research fellowship from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and received arts leadership training through the Association of Academic Museums and Galleries and the Center for Curatorial Leadership. She holds degrees in Art History from the University of Wisconsin and Williams College.

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