Alessandra Gómez
Curator & Artistic Director
Her practice focuses on how contemporary art inhabits spaces not originally designed for it. Working across institutional and independent contexts, she creates opportunities for artists to engage audiences in unexpected settings—from churches and public plazas to building facades and hospitality spaces. Through commissioning, exhibition-making, and performance programming, she supports experimental practices that often fall outside conventional presenting structures.
Gómez has commissioned and stewarded more than one hundred projects spanning visual art, dance, theater, music, and performance. She is currently Consultant Public Art Curator at BAM, where she leads the Robert W. Wilson Public Art Mural Initiative, and Head Art Curator at Wythe Hotel, directing acquisitions and programs. She is also a curator of 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 summer.
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, Shayne Oliver, Isa Spector, Julia Antinozzi, Kat Sotelo, Malcolm-x Betts, 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, 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, depending on availability.