Stephanie Seidel is a curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (ICA Miami). Since joining ICA Miami in 2016, Seidel has curated a number of exhibitions, including the survey “Betye Saar: Serious Moonlight” in collaboration with 49 Nord 6 Est – Frac Lorraine, Metz, France, and Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland, the co-curation of solo presentations “Judy Chicago: A Reckoning” and “Chakaia Booker: The Observance” as well as major retrospectives for Thomas Bayrle and Allan McCollum. She additionally served as curator of the first solo museum presentations for artists Tomm El-Saieh, Diamond Stingily, and Janiva Ellis, and has organized exhibitions for Ellen Lesperance, Anthea Hamilton, Claudia Andujar, Louise Bourgeois, Louise Nevelson, Edward and Nancy Kienholz, and William N. Copley. In 2019 she organized the symposium “They Failed to Remember Us: Expanding Intersectional Feminisms.”
Before joining ICA Miami, Seidel was interim director at the Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Germany, as well as a curator for the commissioning project “25/25/25” for the Kunststiftung NRW (Arts Foundation of North Rhine-Westphalia), Düsseldorf. She also founded the project space Between Arrival & Departure in Düsseldorf. Seidel has edited and contributed to numerous monographs and regularly publishes in magazines including Flash Art and Art in America.
