Jess Wilcox

Jess Wilcox is an independent curator based in New York City and the Hudson Valley, focusing on sculpture, ecocritical and public art. From 2016 to 2022, she was Curator and Director of Exhibitions at Socrates Sculpture Park. There she curated several group and solo exhibitions.  During her tenure there, she organized the first single-artist exhibitions in the Park’s thirty-three year history, re-launched the Park’s publication program and initiated a program of traveling commissioned works to other venues. From 2011-2015, she worked at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum where she organized public programs and projects including Between the Door and the Street, a performance initiated by Suzanne Lacy in partnership with Creative Time and A Butterfly for Brooklyn, a pyrotechnic work presented in Prospect Park by Judy Chicago, among others. There she also co-curated Agitprop!, a group exhibition with over sixty artists that evolved over time and invited artists as co-curators. She has held positions at MoMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Performa, Abrons Art Center, and SculptureCenter. She has a BA from Barnard College and a Master’s degree from Bard’s Center for Curatorial Studies.