Jessamyn Fiore
is the Co-Director of the Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark as well as a curator and writer.
She was the curator of the Jean-Paul Najar Foundation in Dubai, UAE, from 2015-2017 and Director of Thisisnotashop, a nonprofit gallery space in Dublin, Ireland, from 2007-2010. She received a Masters Degree in contemporary art theory, practice, and philosophy from The National College of Art and Design, Dublin, in 2009. She was the Curatorial Advisor for Rawson Projects gallery in New York City (2014 - 2015, 2017 – 2018) and a co-founder of Nasty Women Exhibition (2017). From 2020 - 2025 she was the Board President of Epsilon Spires, a nonprofit multidisciplinary arts center located in Brattleboro, Vermont.
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). She curated the inaugural exhibition Vision & Legacy at the Jean-Paul Najar Foundation in Dubai, UAE (March 2016), followed by Artist Run New York: The Seventies (March 2017).
She co-curated (with Sergio Bessa) Gordon Matta-Clark: Anarchitect at the Bronx Museum of the Arts that opened in November 2017. The exhibition was critically acclaimed and subsequently toured to the Jeu de Paume, Paris, France (June 2018); Kumu Kunstimuuseum, Tallinn, Estonia (February 2019); and the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, (September 2019). She continued her curatorial partnership with Sergio Bessa for an exhibition titled Gordon Matta-Clark: Unravel The Unfound at KØS Museum of Art in Public Spaces, Copenhagen, Denmark (March 2020 – January 2021). She co-curated Gordon Matta-Clark: Graffiti Archive 1972/73 with Roger Gastman of Beyond the Streets for White Columns, NYC (March 2025).
The Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark is a small, private, family-run artist estate that was started by Jane Crawford, the artist’s widow, after Matta-Clark's untimely death in 1978 at the age of 35. In 2012 Crawford’s daughter, Jessamyn Fiore, officially joined as Co-Director of the Estate. In 2002, the Estate moved the archive of Gordon Matta-Clark to the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal, officially gifting it to the institution in 2011. Since 1998, the Estate has been represented by the David Zwirner Gallery. In addition to facilitating exhibitions, publications and projects about Gordon Matta-Clark, the Estate also supports the generation of new work by contemporary artists and other creatives in conversation with Matta-Clark's practice and legacy.
