Stephanie Seidel is the Monica and Blake Grossman Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (ICA Miami). Since joining ICA Miami in 2016, Seidel has curated numerous exhibitions, most recently the co-curation of Zilia Sánchez: Topologías / Topologies, Marguerite Humeau: \*sk\*/ey-, and Michel Majerus: Progressive Aesthetics. Other exhibitions include surveys for Judy Chicago and Chakaia Booker as well as major retrospectives for Thomas Bayrle and Allan McCollum. In 2021-2023 Seidel organized Betye Saar: Serious Moonlight in collaboration with 49 Nord 6 Est – Frac Lorraine, Metz, France, and Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland. She additionally served as co-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, and William N. Copley. She organized the symposium “They Failed to Remember Us: Expanding Intersectional Feminisms” and in 2024 a symposium on artist Zilia Sánchez at ICA Miami. 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. She is the first recipient of the Barbara Nessim Curatorial Travel Award recognizing her foundational research on artist Betye Saar’s immersive, site-specific installations.
