Anne Reeve is a curator specializing in sculpture and the expanded field, with a focus on the intersections of artistic practice, architecture, landscape, and civic space. She currently serves as curator at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, where her work encompasses exhibitions, acquisitions, research, and collection-based initiatives focused on modern and contemporary sculpture.
Since joining the Hirshhorn in 2018, Reeve has organized presentations by artists including Simone Leigh, Lee Ufan, Nicolas Party, Abigail DeVille, Huma Bhabha, and Sterling Ruby. She served as coordinating curator for Simone Leigh, the artist’s landmark survey exhibition at the Hirshhorn (2023–24); curated Put It This Way: (Re)Visions of the Hirshhorn Collection (2022–23), the Museum’s first exhibition devoted exclusively to works by women and gender-nonconforming artists; and co-curated Lee Ufan: Open Dimension (2019–20), the first exhibition to dedicate the Hirshhorn’s outdoor Plaza entirely to a single artist. Reeve is currently leading curatorial initiatives for the revitalized Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden, redesigned by artist-architect Hiroshi Sugimoto and scheduled to open on the National Mall in fall 2026. As part of the largest renovation project in the Museum's history, she is overseeing a Garden program of major new commissions, acquisitions, and permanent installations that will reshape the Hirshhorn's engagement with public space.
Reeve is also a frequent editor and author. She served as primary editor and contributing author of Lee Ufan: Open Dimension (Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and Smithsonian Books, 2020) and Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: The Collection (DelMonico Books / D.A.P., 2022), the first publication devoted to the Museum since its opening in 1974. More recently Reeve served as a contributing author to the compendium Great Women Sculptors (Phaidon, 2024).
Prior to joining the Hirshhorn, Reeve spent nearly a decade at Glenstone, where she organized long-term installations and publications devoted to On Kawara and Robert Gober during the institution’s large-scale architectural expansion, as well as exhibitions by Fred Sandback, Peter Fischli and David Weiss, and the outdoor presentation of Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller’s sound work FOREST (for a thousand years . . .) (2017). She also initiated Glenstone’s Oral History Program, conducting interviews with more than fifty artists represented in the collection and convening the institution’s 2014 Roundtable symposium on the artist interview as both document and practice.
In 2025–2026, Reeve served as President of the Jury for the eighth edition of the Arnaldo Pomodoro Sculpture Prize. Her scholarship and criticism on contemporary art and sculpture—including writings on artists Lucy Raven, Arlene Shechet, Davina Semo, Jason Dodge and others—have appeared in exhibition catalogues, monographs, and such publications as Artforum, Art in America, and Art Papers. She holds a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and an M.A. in the History of Art from University College London.
