Emily Zimmerman

Emily Zimmerman is the Associate Curator of Programs at the Henry Art Gallery. Previously she was the Associate Curator at the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC)where she commissioned new work from Melvin Moti, Gordon Hall, Marie Sester. She received the 2011-2012 Loris Ledis Curatorial Fellowship at BRIC Contemporary Art, served as a 2013 curator-in-residence at Residency Unlimited, and was awarded funding by the New Foundation Seattle in 2016. Her writings have appeared in BOMB, Big, Red & Shiny and Contemporary Performance. She has served on a number of review panels including the New York State Council on the Arts and the Herb Alpert Awards. She is a board member for the Wave Farm. Emily received her MA from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College and her BA from New York University.