Alessandra Gómez
Artistic Director & Curator
She believes artistic leadership begins with recognizing artistic potential early and creating the conditions for artists to pursue their most ambitious ideas. Rather than responding to existing market or institutional recognition, she invests in artists whose work she believes in. Through commissioning, collaboration, and sustained investment, she develops programs where artists can take risks, work across disciplines, and expand the possibilities of contemporary art. A key focus of her practice is directing institutional resources toward artists who have not yet had access to major commissioning opportunities.
She is currently Consultant Public Art Curator at Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), where she leads the Robert W. Wilson Public Art Mural Initiative, and Head Art Curator at Wythe Hotel, directing acquisitions and programs such as free hotel room performances, art exhibits, talks, community life drawing sessions, and screenings. She is a Curator at Offerings, an ongoing experimental performance series at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin in Times Square, and Curator for Sugar Sugar!, a large-scale outdoor performance series presented in Domino Square during June. She is currently working on visual art & performance projects to be announced later in Fall 2026 and later in 2027.
Previously, Gómez was a curator for Luna Luna: Forgotten Fantasy (2023–24), the revival of André Heller's legendary art amusement park, and a member of the founding curatorial team at The Shed (2018–23), where she organized exhibitions and developed commissions for the Open Call program. Throughout her career, she has worked with artists including Trajal Harrell, Maxwell Alexandre, Donyel Ivy-Royal, Amando Houser, Alex Tatarsky, Kenneth Tam, Nazareth Hassan, Sondra Perry, Shayne Oliver, Isa Spector, Julia Antinozzi, Kat Sotelo, Malcolm-x Betts, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Emilie Louise Gossiaux, Tomás Saraceno, Moriah Evans, Omari Douglin, Alanna Fields, Jean-Pierre Villafañe, and many others.
Her independent projects and advisory work have included collaborations with Nike, Columbia University, the Center for Performance Research, Knockdown Center, Queens Museum, Pratt Institute, Martin E. Segal Center/Theater at CUNY, Perelman Center for Performing Arts, Times Square Arts, and Meow Wolf. She regularly serves on grant and fellowship panels and contributes writing to exhibition catalogues, artist publications, and magazines. She is the author of a monograph on Maxwell Alexandre featuring contributions by Tina Campt and Hans Ulrich Obrist.
Gómez holds an MA in Modern and Contemporary Art from Columbia University and a dual BFAAH in Fine Art and Art History, Theory, and Criticism from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Inquiries regarding curatorial projects, advisory services, writing, and commissions are welcome, subject to her seasonal availability.