Alison Coplan is Senior Curator and Head of Programs at Swiss Institute, where she organizes exhibitions and programs, and oversees publications. At SI, she has curated numerous projects with artists including Karen Lamassonne, Shen Xin, Alia Farid, Hans Haacke, Rodrigo Hernández, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Jasper Spicero, and Studio for Propositional Cinema, among many others. She has additionally organized over 135 public programs with artists and thinkers including Yuji Agematsu, Ericka Beckman, Judith Bernstein, Hannah Black, Boris Groys, Donna Haraway, Ken Liu, Jonas Mekas, Helen Molesworth, Laura Poitras, Trevor Paglen, and Roman Signer. In 2017, she served as the cross-institutional festival organizer for the 13-venue, New York City iteration of Ugo Rondinone: I ♥︎ John Giorno, and in 2019, she worked together with the Getty Research Institute to present Harald Szeeman: Grandfather: A Pioneer Like Us at SI. She holds an MA in Art History: Critical and Curatorial Studies from Columbia University and a BA from Cornell University.
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