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Emily Zimmerman

Associate Curator of Programs, Henry Art Gallery

Seattle

Emily Zimmerman is the Associate Curator of Programs at the Henry Art Gallery at the University of Washington. Previously she was the Associate Curator at the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) where she commissioned new work from artists such as Melvin Moti, Gordon Hall, Marie Sester and curated the exhibitions Uncertain Spectator (2010) and Slow Wave: Seeing Sleep (2009). She received the 2011-2012 Loris Ledis Curatorial Fellowship at BRIC Contemporary Art and was a 2013 curator-in-residence at Residency Unlimited. Her writings have appeared in BOMB, Big, Red & Shiny and Contemporary Performance. She has served on a number of panels including the New York State Council on the Arts and the Herb Alpert Awards and is a board member for the Wave Farm (https://wavefarm.org/). She received her MA from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College and her BA from New York University.

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