Courtney Gilbert

Courtney Gilbert is the Assistant Director & Curator at the Sun Valley Museum of Art (SVMoA), where she began working as Curator in 2006. During her time at SVMoA, she has curated more than sixty exhibitions and has worked on commissioned projects with artists including Tanya Aguiñiga, Carolina Caycedo, Tiffany Chung, Binh Danh, John Grade, Ana María Hernando, Allan McCollum, James Prosek, Mel Ziegler, and many others. Recent exhibition highlights include Intertwined: Weaving in Community(2024); Sightings (2023); Dams: Reservoirs, Reclamation, Renewal (2022); Deeds Not Words: Women Working for Change (2021); and Mirage: Energy, Water, and Creativity in the Great Basin(2019).

Previously, Gilbert worked in the Latin American Department at the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin, where she served as editor for Blanton Museum of Art: Latin American Collection (2006) and coordinated planning for The Geometry of Hope: Latin American Abstract Art (2007). She earned her BA from Dartmouth College and MA and PhD degrees from the University of Chicago, where she was awarded a USIA Fulbright-García Robles Fellowship for dissertation research in Mexico.

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Center for Curatorial Leadership Announces 2025 Fellows

The Center for Curatorial Leadership (CCL) is pleased to introduce the 2025 cohort of Fellows. Now in its eighteenth year, the CCL Fellowship is the preeminent leadership program for curators, providing them with the skills and tools needed to become visionary leaders of art museums and cultural institutions worldwide. This year, ... Read More >