Jessica Bell Brown is a curator, writer, and arts leader, currently serving as the executive director of the Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University. As curator and department head for contemporary art at the Baltimore Museum of Art, she produced exhibitions with leading artists including LaToya Ruby Frazier, Stephanie Syjuco, and Thaddeus Mosley. Her 2022 exhibition, A Movement In Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration co-organized with the Mississippi Museum of Art, received national acclaim. Prior to the BMA she has held roles at many institutions: Gracie Mansion Conservancy in New York, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and Creative Time. Her writing has been featured in several artist monographs and catalogues, including Janiva Ellis, Baldwin Lee, Lubaina Himid, Matthew Angelo Harrison, Nari Ward as well as Flash Art, Artforum, Art Papers, Hyperallergic, and The Brooklyn Rail.

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