AppointmentApril 1, 2021
ICA Miami announces promotions and new curatorial appointments.
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (ICA Miami) announced Stephanie Seidel's promotion, who has worked at the institution for five years, to the position of curator. Amanda Morgan, who since 2017 has worked at the ICA as a curatorial assistant for programs and research, was promoted to the role of assistant curator, assuming a leadership role in the development of the museum's publications program. The entity also announced Donna Honarpisheh to the newly created position of assistant research curator for the Knight Foundation Art + Research Center (A + RC). Honarpisheh is a Ph.D. from the Comparative Literature department and the designated emphasis program in Critical Theory at UC-Berkeley.
"ICA Miami's exhibitions, collections, and programs have strengthened significantly in recent years, thanks to the groundbreaking work of our curatorial team," said Artistic Director Alex Gartenfeld. "Stephanie has organized some of ICA Miami's most defining exhibitions to date, and Amanda has been integral to supporting the development of those exhibitions, as well as managing our growing publications program. We are pleased to welcome Donna as we continue to expand the scope and impact of the Art + Research Center's graduate-level programs and digital initiatives. Her scholarship will add a considerable further dimension to our curatorial department."
In her five-year tenure at ICA Miami, Seidel has co-curated many significant exhibitions, including the first solo museum presentations for Janiva Ellis, Tomm El-Saieh, and Diamond Stingily, and curated exhibitions of William Copley, Louise Nevelson, Carlos Sandoval de Leon, Edward and Nancy Kienholz, and Louise Bourgeois, among others. She is also co-curator of the ICA Miami exhibitions Allan McCollum: Works Since 1969, Judy Chicago: A Reckoning, and Thomas Bayrle: One Day on Success Street, which marked the artist's first solo museum presentation in the United States. Seidel has also made integral contributions to ICA Miami's more comprehensive programming, including the symposium organization "They Failed to Remember Us: Expanding Intersectional Feminisms" in 2019. Forthcoming, Seidel is co-organizing Chakaia Booker: The Observance, opening in April, and curating Betye Saar: Serious Moonlight, opening this October. She is also co-organizing the forthcoming ICA Miami exhibition Michel Majerus: Progressive Aesthetics.
"ICA Miami's exhibitions, collections, and programs have strengthened significantly in recent years, thanks to the groundbreaking work of our curatorial team," said Artistic Director Alex Gartenfeld. "Stephanie has organized some of ICA Miami's most defining exhibitions to date, and Amanda has been integral to supporting the development of those exhibitions, as well as managing our growing publications program. We are pleased to welcome Donna as we continue to expand the scope and impact of the Art + Research Center's graduate-level programs and digital initiatives. Her scholarship will add a considerable further dimension to our curatorial department."
In her five-year tenure at ICA Miami, Seidel has co-curated many significant exhibitions, including the first solo museum presentations for Janiva Ellis, Tomm El-Saieh, and Diamond Stingily, and curated exhibitions of William Copley, Louise Nevelson, Carlos Sandoval de Leon, Edward and Nancy Kienholz, and Louise Bourgeois, among others. She is also co-curator of the ICA Miami exhibitions Allan McCollum: Works Since 1969, Judy Chicago: A Reckoning, and Thomas Bayrle: One Day on Success Street, which marked the artist's first solo museum presentation in the United States. Seidel has also made integral contributions to ICA Miami's more comprehensive programming, including the symposium organization "They Failed to Remember Us: Expanding Intersectional Feminisms" in 2019. Forthcoming, Seidel is co-organizing Chakaia Booker: The Observance, opening in April, and curating Betye Saar: Serious Moonlight, opening this October. She is also co-organizing the forthcoming ICA Miami exhibition Michel Majerus: Progressive Aesthetics.
