Aaron Levi Garvey

Aaron Levi Garvey is a Jewish-American curator and historian specializing in Modern and Contemporary Arts and Culture and currently serves as Director of the Art Museum of West Virginia University. He has worked with esteemed institutions, including as the Janet L. Nolan director of curatorial affairs at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University, Founding Chief Curator of The Hudson Eye and Long Road Projects Foundation, and chief curator of the Andy Warhol Museum. Recent exhibitions and collaborations include: serving as Guest Juror for the Janet & Walter Sondheim Art Prize in Baltimore, visiting curator at STABLE in Washington DC, curating The Hudson Eye, a 10-day and 14-venue arts focused program in Hudson, New York from 2019-2023, Arc of Life/Ark of Bones by Walter Hood, Migratory Roots by Kevin Brisco and Golden Record by Rachel Libeskind at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University, Flashing the Leather and The Drowned group exhibitions at Alabama Contemporary, Chiharu Shiota’s site-specific installation “Infinity Lines” at the SCAD Museum of Art, “Ephemera Obscura” at the Contemporary Art Center of New Orleans and Manon Bellet's "MEMO" and Shikeith’s “notes towards becoming a spill” both at Atlanta Contemporary. Additionally Garvey curated "We Are What You Eat" the inaugural art exhibition at the United Nations headquarters in New York City in 2016 and co-curated the Atlanta Biennial (ATLBNL): Recent Correspondence at the Atlanta Contemporary in August 2016.