Kelly Taxter is an Independent Curator and the Deputy Director of Artists Space. She is the Curator, with artist Amy Sillman, of the forthcoming survey Betty Parsons, an Artist with a Gallery, which will open at the Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College in 2026. From 2013 to 2021 she was the Barnett and Annalee Newman Curator of Contemporary Art at the Jewish Museum, New York, where she organized major surveys of Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Rachel Feinstein, Jonas Mekas and Isaac Mizrahi; projects with Math Bass, Eliza Douglas, Eva LeWitt, Willem de Rooij, Valeska Soares, and Vivian Suter; and thematic group exhibitions including The Wild, Take Me I’m Yours (co-curated with Hans Ulrich Obrist) and Unorthodox (co-curated with Daniel S, Palmer). In 2003, she co-founded Taxter & Spengemann (with Pascal Spengemann), a gallery where she represented artists Lutz Bacher, Frank Benson, Xavier Cha, Matt Johnson, Kalup Linzy, Wardell Milan, and A.L. Steiner, among others. She earned her master of arts degree from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College and bachelor of fine arts degree from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Tufts University.
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