Jessamyn Fiore
is a New York based curator and writer as well the co-director of the Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark. She is the Curatorial Advisor for Rawson Projects gallery in New York and a co-founder of Nasty Women Exhibition. She was the curator of the Jean-Paul Najar Foundation in Dubai, UAE, from 2015-2017 and Director of Thisisnotashop, a not for profit gallery space in Dublin, from 2007-2010. She received a Masters in contemporary art theory, practice, and philosophy from The National College of Art and Design, Dublin, in 2009. Exhibitions curated include 112 Greene Street: The Early Years (1970–1974) at David Zwirner in New York (2011), which led to her editing the critically acclaimed, eponymous catalogue, published by David Zwirner and Radius Books (2012); and a second exhibition for David Zwirner New York titled Gordon Matta-Clark: Above and Below (2013). In the past few years she curated II Machines: Clive Murphy & Trevor Tweeton at the Knockdown Center in Mespeth, Queens (May 2015), was a partner at Rawson Projects gallery on the Lower East Side (Sep 2014- May 2015) organizing exhibitions by Nathaniel Mary Quinn and Lilja Birgisdottir among others; curated the inaugural exhibition Vision & Legacy at the Jean-Paul Najar Foundation in Dubai, UAE (March 2016); curated Liz Nielsen & Max Warsh at Sirius Arts Centre in Cork, Ireland (June 2016) and at Pallas Projects, Dublin, Ireland (August 2016).
Recent exhibitions include: Nasty Women Exhibition at the Knockdown Center, Queens (January 2017); Process Series II with Dragana Jurisic, Katie Holten, Wendy White and Bahareh Khoshooee at Rawson Projects, NYC (Feb-March 2017); Artist Run New York: The Seventies at the Jean-Paul Najar Foundation, Dubai, UAE (March - June 2017). She is co-curator (with Sergio Bessa) of Gordon Matta-Clark: Anarcitect at the Bronx Museum opening November 2017 (Travels to the Jeu de Paume, Paris, June 4–Sept. 23, 2018; Kumu Kunstimuuseum, Tallinn, Estonia, Mar. 1–Aug. 4, 2019; Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA, Sept. 12–Dec. 15, 2019).
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
Opening reception Sunday November 12th
The Exhibition will then travel
Jeu de Paume, Paris, June 4–Sept. 23, 2018
Kumu Kunstimuuseum, Tallinn, Estonia, Mar. 1–Aug. 4, 2019
Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA, Sept. 12–Dec. 15, 2019
An exhibition catalogue is to be published by Yale University Press that features a conversation between Jessamyn Fiore and Sergio Bessa about the work of Gordon Matta-Clark - for more information, please click here.
Check back for updates regarding curator talks and exhibition tours & events.
EVENTS
Special Project
Gordon Matta-Clark Garbage Wall at UNTITLED MIAMI
December 6 th -10 th 2017
Miami Beach, Miami, Florida
ONGOING
Curatorial Advisor to Rawson Projects
Fantastic exhibitions current and upcoming – please check it out if you are in NYC.
