Jennifer Carty

Jennifer Carty is the inaugural Curator of Art in Public Spaces at the University of Michigan. Most recently she served as the Associate Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art at the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago and curated several exhibitions including Calling on the Past (2023), Ted Stamm: In Transit (2023), Take Care (2020), Claudia Wieser: Generations (2020), Expanding Narratives: The Figure and the Ground (2018) as well as site-specific commissions by Chicago artists Amanda Williams, Samuel Levi Jones, and Bethany Collins. In 2022, Carty was selected for the AAMC Mentorship Program, in 2020, she served as juror for the Chicago Artadia Awards, and in 2018, she was selected for the Independent Curators International Curatorial Intensive in New Orleans.

Prior to her current role, Carty has held curatorial positions at the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University and the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. She holds a B.A. in History of Art and French and Francophone Studies from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and an M.A. in Contemporary Art from the Sotheby’s Institute of Art in London.