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Curatorial Projects (at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum unless otherwise noted):
2026
Dante Vaghi: UFO Pioneer, The Gallery at the Visual & Performing Arts Center, Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, CT (Fall of 2026)
2025
Sight and Sound: Artists Consider Long Island Sound, including work by Francis Ashforth, Christopher Baker, Marion Belanger and Martha Willette-Lewis, Christopher Coffin, Kenneth Martin, Brechin Morgan, Constance Old, James Prosek, Duke Riley, Alexis Rockman, Jeremy Slater (in collaboration with Christopher Coffin), Beth Stewart-Kelly and Catherine Vanaria, The Norwalk Art Space, Norwalk, CT. Traveled to The Alexey von Schlippe Gallery of Art, University of Connecticut, Avery Point, Groton, CT. 70-page catalogue with essay.
2023
Mark Dion: Field Station for the Melancholy Entomologist, ICEHOUSE Project Space, Sharon, CT, brochure with essay.
Prima Materia: The Periodic Table in Contemporary Art, including works by Matthew Barney, Rachel Berwick, Edward Burtynsky, Dove Bradshaw, Julian Charrière, Compound Interest, The Dufala Brothers, Ashley Epps, Philip Grausman, Tom Lehrer, Bryan McGovern Wilson, Jeffrey Meris, Myra Mimlitsch-Gray, Cornelia Parker, Katie Paterson, Beverly Pepper, Winston Roeth, Peter Selgin, Sunny A. Smith, Edward Steed, Carlos Vega, Eleanor White, and Robert Williams. Catalogue with essay.
2022
Duane Slick: The Coyote Makes the Sunset Better, catalogue with essay.
Melvin Edwards: Asafokra, Aldrich Main Street Sculpture Project.
David Shaw: Last Steps, Aldrich Main Street Sculpture Project.
2021
Tim Prentice: After the Mobile, (Presented both indoors and in The Aldrich Sculpture Garden), catalogue with essay.
Hugo McCloud: from where i stand, accompanied by book with essay “From Where I Stand,” published by Sean Kelly Gallery and Hatje Cantz.
2020
Frank Stella’s Stars, A Survey, (co-curated with Amy Smith-Stewart), with book published by The Aldrich and Gregory R. Miller & Co.
Twenty Twenty, including works by Marti Cormand, Oasa DuVerney, Judith Eisler, Andy Mister, William Powhida, Gil Scullion, and Diana Shpungin, accompanied by a newspaper in two editions.
2019
Radcliffe Bailey: Vessel III, Aldrich Main Street Sculpture Project
Tony Tasset: Deer, Aldrich Sculpture Garden ProjecWeather Report, including work by Bigert & Bergström, Barbara Bloom, Sara Bouchard, Josh Callaghan, Nick Cave, Violet Dennison, Andy Goldsworthy, Nancy Graves, Ellen Harvey, Ayumi Ishii, Jitish Kallat, Kim Keever, Byron Kim, Damian Loeb, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Colin McMullan, Hitoshi Nomura, Pat Pickett, Sean Salstrom, and Jennifer Steinkamp, with installation by researchers Amanda Bunce, Joel Salisbury and Michael Vertefeuille. Catalogue with essay.
How Art Changed the Prison, a collaborative exhibition of works from the collection of the Connecticut Prison Arts Program. Organized by Jeffrey Greene, Manager of the Program, including the works by 28 artists that were made in Connecticut correctional institutions since 1990. Accompanied by catalogue with essays by Klein and Greene.
2018
On Edge, including work by Paul Bowen, Anthony Caro, Melvin Edwards, Michael Rees, Arlene Shechet, Vanske & Spänle, and Leslie Wayne, with installation furniture by Charles and Ray Emes, George Nelson, and others. (Part of The Domestic Plane: New Perspectives on Tabletop Art Objects, with chapters curated by Amy Smith-Stewart and David Adamo, Dakin Hart, and Elizabeth Essner), book with essay.
Analia Segal: contra la pared, catalogue with essay.
Helena Hernmarck: Weaving in Progress, exhibition with ongoing in-gallery tapestry weaving project by the artist during museum hours, catalogue with essay.
Danh Vo: We the People (Detail), Aldrich Main Street Sculpture Project
2017
Kay Rosen: H Is For House, catalogue with essay.
William Powhida: After the Contemporary, catalogue with essay.
Alex Schweder and Ward Shelley: Your Turn, (Installation and durational performance), catalogue with essay
2016
Peter Liversidge: Proposals for The Aldrich, accompanied by artist-designed proposals book, and catalogue with essay.
Kim Jones: White Crow, catalogue with essay.
North Northeast, guest curator, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT
2015
Nancy Shaver: Reconciliation, catalogue with essay.
Penelope Umbrico: Shallow Sun, catalogue with essay.
James Mollison: The Disciples, catalogue with essay
The Seven Deadly Sins: Sloth, a project my Mats Bigert and Sina Najafi, part of a collaboration with the Fairfield Westchester Museum Alliance: Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT (Pride); Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY (Envy); Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY (Lust); Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY (Gluttony); Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY (Greed); and Wave Hill, Bronx, NY (Wrath). Accompanied by Sloth, a free community newspaper.
Steve DiBenedetto: Evidence of Everything, catalogue with essay.
2014
Simon Blackmore: Three Sound Works, catalogue with essay.
Sol LeWitt: The Music Collection, catalogue with essay.
James Mollison: The Disciples, catalogue with essay
The Aldrich Collection 1964-1974: Standing in the Shadows of Love, (co-curated with Amy Smith-Stewart), including work by Richard Artschwager, Eva Hesse, Robert Indiana, Ellsworth Kelly, Agnes Martin, Robert Morris, Ree Morton, Robert Rauschenberg, Richard Serra, and Robert Smithson.
Jack Whitten: Evolver, catalogue with essay.
Michael Joo: Drift, catalogue with essay
Taylor Davis: If you steal a horse, and let him go, he’ll take you to the barn you stole him from, catalogue with essay.
David Diao: Front to Back, catalogue with essay.
Ernesto Neto: The Body That Gravitates On Me, (Atrium installation)
Cary Smith: Your Eyes They Turn Me, catalogue with essay.
North Northeast, guest curator, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT
2013
Brad Kahlhamer: Bowery Nation, catalogue with essay.
Xu Bing: Tobacco Project, (in collaboration with the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond), catalogue with essay.
Hank Willis Thomas: Strange Fruit, catalogue with essay
Jane South: Floor/Ceiling, catalogue with essay.
Ballpoint Pen Drawing Since 1950, including work by Rita Ackerman, Bill Adams, Alighiero Boetti, Dawn Clements, Russell Crotty, Jan Fabre, Alberto Giacometti, Joanne Greenbaum, Martin Kippenberger, Il Lee, and Toyin Odutola, catalogue with essay.
Amelie Chabannes: Double Portraits and a Forth Hand, catalogue with essay
Allison Smith: Rudiments of Fife & Drum, exhibition and associated performance in the Ridgefield Memorial Day Parade; Vinyl record with music of the Celestial Ancients Fife & Drum Corps, directed by James Clark; catalogue with essay.
2012
Jim Dingilian: Subtractive Images, catalogue with essay.
Xu Bing: Tobacco Project, (in collaboration with the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA), catalogue with essay.
James Grashow: Corrugated Fountain (outdoor installation)
United States, (co-curated with Alyson Baker and Monica Ramirez Montagut), including work by Jonathan Brand, Hank Willis Thomas, Celeste Fichter, Nina Katchadorian, Matthew Northridge, and Jenny Yurshansky, catalogue with essay.
Bryan Knep: Deep Wounds, catalogue with essay.
2011
John Shearer: America (Continued), catalogue with essay.
Gary Lichtenstein: 35 Years of Screen Printing, catalogue with essay.
Robert Taplin: Selections from the Punch Series (indoor installation) and The Young Punch Goes Shopping with His Mother, Aldrich Main Street Sculpture Project, brochure with essay
Shimon Attie: MetroPAL.IS, catalogue with essay. Traveled to the Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, and The William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.
Thilo Hoffman: High School Portraits, catalogue with essay.
James Esber: Your Name Here, catalogue with essay.
Jessica Stockholder: Hollow Places Court in Ash-Tree Wood, catalogue with essay.
Type A: Barrier and Trigger, Barrier was a collaborative with the Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY; Trigger was produced in collaboration with the Ridgefield Police Department and Action Targets, Provo, UT, catalogue with essay.
2010
Edward Tufte: Seeing Around, (co-curated with Harry Philbrick), catalogue with essay.
Bike Rides: The Exhibition, (co-curated with Monica Ramirez Montagut), catalogue with essay
Jean Finley + John Muse: Sleeping Under Starts, Living Under Satellites, video installation with outdoor geocache component, catalogue with essay.
Chad Kleitsch: White Box – Photographs of the Unseen Museum, brochure with essay
Roz Chast: No Early Birds, ‘guerilla’ public art project; mock tag sale posters for non-existent tag sale, installed in 60 roadside locations throughout Fairfield County, CT. Posters and limited-edition print version produced by Gary Lichtenstein Editions.
2010 Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition, guest curator, Chesterwood, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Stockbridge, MA
2009
Kwang-Young Chun: The Soul – Journey to America, catalogue with essay.
Harry Shearer: The Silent Echo Chamber, brochure with essay
Frank Poor: Enon Cemetery, Aldrich Main Street Sculpture Project
Dave Cole: Flags of the World, Aldrich Projects installation
Tom Sachs: Cameras, catalogue with essay
Ted Victoria: INFESTATION, Aldrich Main Street Sculpture Project
2008
Marti Cormand: 2007 Emerging Artist Award Exhibition, catalogue with essay.
Ester Partegás: The Invisible, Aldrich Main Street Sculpture Project
Damian Loeb: The Constructed Image, 1996-2006, brochure with essay.
Gary Panter: Daydream Trap, catalogue with essay.
Elizabeth Peyton: Portrait of an Artist, catalogue with essay.
Paul Ramirez Jonas: ABRACADABRA – I Create As I Speak, catalogue with essay.
2007
Elana Herzog and Michael Schumacher: W(E)AVE, catalogue with essay.
Mary Judge: Studies in Segmented Form, catalogue with essay
Michael Somoroff: Illumination I, (Installation in The Aldrich’s Sculpture Garden), brochure with essay.
2006
Mary Temple: Extended Afternoon, brochure with essay.
Tom Burckhardt: Full Stop, brochure with essay
Damian Loeb: The Constructed Image, 1996-2006, brochure with essay.
No Reservations: Native American Culture and History in Contemporary Art, including work by Matthew Buckingham, Lewis DeSoto, Peter Edlund, Nicholas Galanin, Jeffrey Gibson, Rigo 23, Duane Slick, Marie Watt, Yoram Wolberger, and Edie Winograde, catalogue with essay, included contributed essays by Fergus Bordewich and Paul Chaat Smith.
Global: 20 Artists + One World, Westport Art Center, Westport, CT., including work by Janice Caswell, Nancy Davidson & Judy Dunaway, Lisa Hoke, Yuken Teruya, David Opdyke, Michael Oatman, Michael DeFeo, Joyce Kozloff, Eva Lee, Scott Richter, and Michael Hernandez de Luna, catalogue with essay.
John Giglio: BlowHomes, Aldrich Main Street Sculpture Project
Julian Opie: Sara dancing, sparkly top, Aldrich Main Street Sculpture Project
2005
Fred Wilson: Black Like Me, accompanying catalogue with interview with the artist, and essay by Huey Copeland.
Jane Harris: New Painting, catalogue including essays by Klein and Martin Herbert.
Michael Rees: Large and Moving, brochure with essay
2004
Bottle: Contemporary Art and Vernacular Tradition, including work by Joseph Beuys, Tony Feher, David Hammons, Mona Hatoum, Damien Hirst, Whitfield Lovell, Josiah McElheny, Olivia Parker, Rosamond Purcell, Charles Ray, Alison Saar, Kiki Smith, and William Wegman, accompanying catalogue with essay.
2003
Mark Dion: Full House, the first retrospective of Dion’s work, with accompanying catalogue Mark Dion: Drawings, Journals, Photographs, Souvenirs, and Trophies, 1990-2003.
Nina Levy: Portrait Gallery, brochure with essay.
Elizabeth Demaray: 2003 Aldrich Emerging Artist Award Exhibition, brochure with essay.
2002
Family, co-curated with Jessica Hough, Claudia Matzko, Matthew McCaslin, and Harry Philbrick, including work by Alan Berliner, Louise Bourgeois, Nan Golden, Ernesto Pujol, Faith Ringgold, Mira Schor, Tony Tasset, and Mark Wallinger, with accompanying catalogue
Floor to Ceiling, site-dependent installations by Jean Blackburn, Francis Cape, and Markus Linnenbrink, brochure with essay.
Natacha Lesueur – Opticalifragilistic – New Photographs and Arrangement Culinaire, brochure with essay.
The Charles H. Carpenter, Jr. Collection: Fifty Years of Supporting the New, catalogue with essay.
2001
Art at the Edge of the Law, co-curated with Jessica Hough, including work by Janine Antoni, JSG Boggs, Bureau of Inverse Technology, Mark Lombardi, Janice Kerbel, Negativland, Richard Prince, Tom Sachs, and Fred Tomaselli, catalogue with essay.
2000
Ink Jet, including work by Matt Chansky, Claire Corey, and Tom Moody, brochure with essay.
1999
Aljira Emerge 2000, curation of artist’s development program, Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ. Funded by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.
Future-Present: Contemporary Photographs of Children from the Collection of Reader’s Digest, including work by Ellen Brooks, Keith Carter, Adam Fuss, Sally Mann, Abelardo Morell, Nicholas Nixon, Sabastio Salgado, and Carrie Mae Weems, brochure with essay by Ann Higonnet.
20 x 24: Recent Portraits by Lyle Ashton Harris, brochure with conversation between Chuck Close and the artist.
Playing Off Time: Contemporary Photographers in Dialogue with the Past, including work by Bill Barrette, Jim Dow, Miranda Lichtenstein, John Pfahl, Shellburne Thurber, Philip Trager, Cathy Vanaria, and Tom Zetterstrom, catalogue with essay.
1998
Large-Scale Drawings from the Collection of Wynn Kramarsky, including work by Alice Aycock, Sol LeWitt, Joan Waltemath, and Mark Sheinkman, brochure with interview with Wynn Kramarsky.
Pop Surrealism, co-curated with Dominique Nahas, Harry Philbrick, and Ingrid Schaffner, including work by Bonnie Collura, Nancy Davidson, Georganne Dean, Carroll Dunham, Manuel Ocampo, Gary Panter, Peter Saul, Robert Williams, and Lisa Yuskavage, catalogue with essay: The Popular Corpse: A Brief History.
Roy Lichtenstein: Prints from the Collection of John and Kimiko Powers, brochure with interview with Dorothy Lichtenstein
1997
Visionary Drawing: Chris Hipkiss, Howard Johnson, and Peter Sparre, brochure with essay.
Aaron Birnbaum: Paintings 1960-1996, brochure with essay.
Robert Cottingham: An American Alphabet, brochure with essay.
1996
Notewell: Five Artists Selected by Five Connecticut Curators, Artspace, New Haven (curation of project by Rachel Berwick)
Curation of two-year, outdoor public installation of sculpture by David Colbert, David Gelfman, Philip Grausman, and Peter Kirkiles; South Norwalk, CT (Norwalk Public Arts Program)
1995
Drawn on the Museum, including Jill Baroff, Daze, Vincent Desiderio, Karen Finley, Sol LeWitt, Georgia Marsh, Matthew McCaslin, Francois Morelli, Bruce Robbins, Dorothea Rockburne, Nancy Spero, Peter Waite, Bruce Witsiepe, and Martin Wong. Brochure with essay.
Inside Out: Psychological Self-Portraiture, co-curated with Marc J. Straus, Douglas F. Maxwell, and Harry Philbrick, including the work of Robert Arneson, Tony Bevan, John Coplans, Kim Dingle, Tony Oursler, Alan Rath, and Hannah Wilke.
Rick Shaefer: Constructed Landscapes, brochure with essay.
1991
X6: New Directions in Multiples, including fine art publishers A/D, Artes Magnus, Kunst Editions New York, Editions Schellmann, Carl Solway Gallery, and Thea Westreich. Included recent editioned work by Marina Abramovic, Cindy Sherman, Richard Artschwager, Tony Cragg, Vito Acconci, Nam June Paik, and Vic Muniz. Exhibition venues included the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH, and The Steinman Center, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA. Catalogue with essay by Susan Tallman.
Curatorial projects at the Reception Center Gallery, Wooster School, Danbury, Connecticut, 1985-1988:
1988
The International Sculpture Racing Society
1987
William Beckman: Portraits
1986
H.C. Westermann: Works on Paper
1985
Contemporary Woodblock Prints from the People’s Republic of China