Curatorial CV

AL MINER

CURATED & CO-CURATED EXHIBITIONS / PROJECTS
2025 To See This Place: Awakening to Our Common Home
Fairfield University Art Museum, Fairfield, CT; Museum of Contemporary Religious Art (MOCRA), Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO
Co-curator with David Brinker; touring exhibition featuring Athena LaTocha, Mary Mattingly, and Tyler Rai.
2024 Golden: Fifty Years of New Classics
Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington, Arlington, VA
Guest Curator; 50th-anniversary exhibition.
2023 Baseera Khan: Cloak and Dagger
Maria & Alberto de la Cruz Art Gallery, Georgetown University, Washington, DC
Curator.
2023 Elizabeth M. Webb: Cameo Ground (Children of Paradise)
Lucille M. and Richard F.X. Spagnuolo Gallery, Georgetown University, Washington, DC
Curator.
2022 Mary Kelly: To Witness the Future
Maria & Alberto de la Cruz Art Gallery, Georgetown University, Washington, DC; traveled to Art Gallery of Guelph, Ontario
Curator.
2021 Teresita Fernández: Dark Earth
Maria & Alberto de la Cruz Art Gallery, Georgetown University, Washington, DC
Curator.
2020 Chemi Rosado-Seijo: Communities in Motion / Comunidades en Movimiento
Georgetown University Art Galleries, Washington, DC
Curator.
2019 Glenn Ligon: To Be a Negro in This Country Is Really Never to Be Looked At
Maria & Alberto de la Cruz Art Gallery, Georgetown University, Washington, DC
Curator.
2019 Georgie Friedman: Vortex
Spagnuolo Art Gallery, Georgetown University, Washington, DC
Curator.
2018 Jeffrey Gibson: DON’T MAKE ME OVER
Maria & Alberto de la Cruz Art Gallery, Georgetown University, Washington, DC
Curator; inaugural exhibition.
2018 Beth Katleman: Strange Arcadia
Spagnuolo Art Gallery, Georgetown University, Washington, DC
Curator.
2017 (un)expected families
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Co-curator.
2017 Seeking Stillness
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Curator.
2017 Annette Lemieux: Mise en Scène
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Curator; Maud Morgan Prize exhibition.
2017 Tara Sellios: Sinuous
C. Grimaldis Projects, Baltimore, MD
Curator.
2016 Megacities Asia
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Co-curator with Laura Weinstein.
2016 American/Woman (Positive/Negative 31: American & Woman)
Slocumb Galleries, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN
Curator/Juror.
2015 ALL NATURAL
Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA
Curator.
2015 While You Were Out
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Curator.
2015 Gonzalo Fuenmayor: Tropical Mythologies
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Curator.
2014 National Pride (and Prejudice)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Curator.
2014 Landscape, abstracted
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Curator.
2014 Evelyn Rydz: Forever Yours
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Curator.
2013 Dawit L. Petros: Sense of Place
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Curator.
2013 Fluid Motion
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Curator.
2013 Andrew Oesch: Characters in the Collection
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Curator; Community Arts Initiative.
2012 Daniel Rich: Platforms of Power
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Curator.
2012 Ori Gersht: History Repeating
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Curator; first survey exhibition; accompanying monograph.
2012 Huntington West: Linear Abstraction from the MFA Collection
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Curator.
2010 Blinky Palermo: Retrospective 1964–1977
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden / Dia Art Foundation
Coordinating Curator.
2010 AAP 100 / Associated Artists of Pittsburgh 100th Annual Exhibition
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Co-curator with Donald Miller.
2009 Small Wonders
Maryland Federation of Art, Circle Gallery, Annapolis, MD
Curator/Juror; 5th annual national juried exhibition of small works.
2009 Domesticated: Men and the Domestic Interior
Transformer, Washington, DC
Curator.
2008 Dan Graham: For Gordon Bunshaft
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
Curator; site-specific commission subsequently acquired by the museum.
2007 Yoko Ono: Wish Tree
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
Curator; public project.
2003–05 Thirteen exhibitions of regional artists
Gallery West, Goodwin House Bailey’s Crossroads, Falls Church, VA
Curator.
2002 Tzurah V’Mivneh / Pattern and Structure: Paintings and Wall Hangings by Liz Whitney Quisgard
Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery, Washington, DC
Curator.

JURIED EXHIBITIONS & ARTIST-SELECTION PROGRAMS
2023 WaveForms 2023: A Multimedia Art Occurrence
Boston Cyberarts / Mugar Omni Theater, Museum of Science, Boston, MA
Juror with Leonie Bradbury and Georgie Friedman.
2022 SOLOS 2022
Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA
Juror with Myrtis Bedolla and Amber Esseiva.
2021 54th Annual Art of the State
The State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA
Awards Juror for annual statewide juried exhibition.
2016 Positive/Negative 31: American & Woman National Juried Art Exhibition
Slocumb Galleries, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN
Juror/Curator.
2014 New American Paintings, Northeast, Issue #110
New American Paintings
Juror.
2014 Works on Paper: National Juried Exhibition
South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA
Juror.
2014 70th Members Prize Show
Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA
Juror.
Summer 2014 A FINE LINE
Rocky Neck Cultural Center Gallery, Gloucester, MA
Juried by Al Miner.
2014 Artifice of Geometry
Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA
Juror.
2014 SOLO Competition
Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA
Juror; selected Kim Carlino and James Lentz.
2010–11 Artisphere Mezz Gallery Exhibition Program
Artisphere, Rosslyn, VA
Juror / Artist-Curator with Jayme McLellan and Jefferson Pinder, selecting Arlington artists for Mezz Gallery exhibitions.
2010 AAP 100 / Associated Artists of Pittsburgh 100th Annual Exhibition
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Juror/Co-curator.
2009 Small Wonders
Maryland Federation of Art, Circle Gallery, Annapolis, MD
Juror/Curator.

SELECTED AWARD JURIES
• Maud Morgan Prize, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston — selection committee/jury; included the Marilyn Arsem and Annette Lemieux selections.
• SMFA Traveling Scholars Grant — selection committee member; subsequently curated exhibitions by selected artists.
• SMFA Medal Award — participated in recipient selection.
• D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities — grant review panelist, 2025.

PUBLICATIONS & CURATORIAL WRITING
2025 To See This Place: Awakening to Our Common Home
MOCRA, St. Louis University
Contributing author.
2016 Megacities Asia
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Author/co-author and exhibition catalogue contributor.
2015 MFA Highlights: Contemporary Art
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Editor, contributing author, and project manager; first highlights catalogue devoted to the Museum’s contemporary art collection.
2013 Art for Rollins: The Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art
Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL
Contributing author.
2012 Ori Gersht: History Repeating
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; UK edition, Lund Humphries
Author; 264-page monograph/exhibition catalogue and enhanced eBook.
2011 Still Life – Still Life from the MFA, Boston: Tradition and Innovation
Nagoya/Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Contributing author.
2010 Go for Gold!: The Photographs of Gesche Würfel
Civilian Art Projects, Washington, DC
Essayist.
2009 Trevor Young: Non-places
Flashpoint Gallery, Washington, DC
Wall text / essay.
2008 The Elusive Surrounding
C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Exhibition brochure essay.
2008 Questions for Dan Graham
Hirshhorn Magazine, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Contributing writer.
2007 Maryland Art Place Critics’ Residency catalogue
Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
Catalogue essayist.
2006 Artists Interview Artists
Thinking About Art
Author.

SELECTED PUBLIC LECTURES, CONVERSATIONS & PROGRAMS
2025 To See This Place: Awakening to Our Common Home
Fairfield University, Quick Center for the Arts, Fairfield, CT
Opening-night lecture; co-presenter with David Brinker.
2024 Golden: Fifty Years of New Classics
Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington, Arlington, VA
Guest-curator public tour.
2016 Megacities Asia
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Speaker with Laura Weinstein.
2015 Al Miner and Gonzalo Fuenmayor in Conversation
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Public conversation.
2014 The Fine Art of Curating Group Exhibitions
New Art Center, Boston, MA
Lecture.
2014 Al Miner and Evelyn Rydz in Conversation
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Public conversation.
2013 Al Miner and Dawit L. Petros in Conversation
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Public conversation.
2012 History Repeating: Al Miner & Ori Gersht in Conversation
The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
Public conversation; co-presented by Artis and The Jewish Museum.
2012–13 Contemporary Art and Its Relevance
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Lecture to graduate students.
2011 In Conversation: Al Miner and Victoria F. Gaitan
Artisphere, Dome Theater, Rosslyn, VA
Public conversation, February 25.
2010 In Our Time: Photographs by Anne Lass
Goethe-Institut Washington, Washington, DC
Public conversation with Anne Lass.
2009 Thirty-Two Kilos
Goethe-Institut Washington, Washington, DC
Panel on contemporary German photography and body image.
2009 Curating Group Exhibitions
Corcoran College of Art and Design, Washington, DC
Lecture.
2008 In Conversation: Al Miner and Wolfram Hahn
Goethe-Institut Washington, Washington, DC
Public conversation.
2008 Dan Graham: For Gordon Bunshaft
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
Gallery talk on the site-specific commission.

SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS & PROFESSIONAL PROGRAMS
2016 It’s Complicated: The Curator-Patron Relationship
Association of Art Museum Curators Annual Conference & Meeting, Houston, TX
Organizer and Moderator.
2018 Where Inquiry Meets Creativity
Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship 10th Anniversary Symposium, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC
Panel organizer and speaker.

SELECTED RECORDED MEDIA & BROADCAST APPEARANCES
2025 Fall 2025 Exhibitions Overview: To See This Place
Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO
Recorded co-curator presentation and audience conversation.
2016 Art Captures Constant Motion of Asian Megacities
BBC World
Featured curator/interviewee in television coverage of Megacities Asia.
2016 Hear from the Curators: Megacities Asia
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Recorded curator video with Laura Weinstein.
2012 Hear from the Curator: Ori Gersht
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Recorded curator video for Ori Gersht: History Repeating.
2012 History Repeating: A Conversation with Artist Ori Gersht and Curator Al Miner
The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
Recorded public conversation.
2010 Salon Contra: Go For Gold! with Gesche Würfel and Al Miner
Pink Line Project, Washington, DC
Recorded conversation.
2008 Michael Bell-Smith in Conversation with Al Miner
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
Recorded artist conversation.

HONORS, FELLOWSHIPS, RESIDENCIES & CURATORIAL TRAVEL
2013 Artis Foundation Curatorial Travel Program
Israel
Selected participant in Artis’s curatorial seminar and research travel program.
2013 Association of Art Museum Curators Travel Fellowship
AAMC Annual Conference, New York, NY
Travel Fellowship recipient.
2010 Curatorial Travel and Language Education Fellowship
Goethe-Institut, Berlin, Germany
Fellowship recipient; January 3–30, 2010.
2010 Smithsonian Research Opportunities Fellowship
Smithsonian Institution
Fellowship recipient.
2009 Diversity (DivCom) Fellowship
American Association of Museums (now American Alliance of Museums)
Fellowship recipient; honored at the 2009 Annual Meeting in Philadelphia.
2008 Smithsonian Research Opportunities Fellowship
Smithsonian Institution
Fellowship recipient.
2006 21st Annual Critics Residency Program
Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
Writer in Residence with Eleanor Heartney and Irving Sandler.

SELECTED GRANTS & PROJECT SUPPORT SECURED
2015–16 Megacities Asia
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Grants and major project support included the National Endowment for the Arts; Korea Foundation; Nancy Foss Heath and Richard B. Heath Educational, Cultural, and Environmental Foundation; and Dame Jillian & Dr. Arthur M. Sackler Foundation for the Arts, Sciences & Humanities. Co-curator with Laura Weinstein; raised approximately $450,000 in total exhibition support.
2011–12 Ori Gersht: History Repeating
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Grants supporting the exhibition, monograph, and related digital publication included Artis Foundation; OneWorld Boston; The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; and the Consulate General of Israel to New England. Curator and author.

Additional Foundation, Government & Institutional Support — Secured grants and project support for exhibitions, publications, acquisitions, and public programs from organizations including the Netherland-America Foundation, Consulate General of Israel to New England, OneWorld Boston, Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference), Embassy of the Czech Republic, and other cultural foundations, government agencies, diplomatic missions, and private funders.

SELECTED EXHIBITION REVIEWS & MEDIA COVERAGE
2024 The Washington Post. “To Really Understand D.C.’s Formidable Art Scene, Go to MoCA Arlington,” Kriston Capps, August 7, 2024
Golden: Fifty Years of New Classics
2022 The New York Times / T Magazine. “Mary Kelly’s Revolution Is Ongoing,” Sophie Haigney, November 10, 2022
Mary Kelly: To Witness the Future
2021 The Washington Post. “In the galleries: Teresita Fernández,” Mark Jenkins, November 26, 2021
Teresita Fernández: Dark Earth
2020 The Georgetown Voice. “Chemi Rosado-Seijo’s Commitment to Community Shines…,” Anna Savo-Matthews, February 28, 2020
Chemi Rosado-Seijo: Communities in Motion / Comunidades en Movimiento
2019 Hyperallergic. “Best of 2019: Our Top 20 United States Art Shows,” December 12, 2019 — ranked Glenn Ligon exhibition #17 nationally
Glenn Ligon: To Be a Negro in This Country Is Really Never to Be Looked At
2019 The Washington Post. “In the galleries: Glenn Ligon exhibition draws on Baldwin, Stein and Warhol,” Mark Jenkins, March 29, 2019
Glenn Ligon: To Be a Negro in This Country Is Really Never to Be Looked At
2019 The Georgetowner. “New GU Gallery Features Work by Glenn Ligon,” Richard Selden, March 28, 2019
Glenn Ligon: To Be a Negro in This Country Is Really Never to Be Looked At
2019 Washington City Paper. “‘To be a Negro in this country is really never to be looked at’ Is Required Reading In D.C.,” Kriston Capps, February 7, 2019
Glenn Ligon: To Be a Negro in This Country Is Really Never to Be Looked At
2018 The Artery / WBUR. “MFA’s ‘Seeking Stillness’ Puts Rosso Fiorentino’s Mannerist Masterpiece in the Spotlight,” Lloyd Schwartz, March 12, 2018
Seeking Stillness
2017 The Boston Globe. “Photography show explores many meanings of family,” Mark Feeney, December 13, 2017
(un)expected families
2017 CNN. “Poignant photographs chronicle the evolution of the American family,” Jacopo Prisco, December 13, 2017
(un)expected families
2017 Photograph. “(un)expected families at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,” Vicki Goldberg, December 2017
(un)expected families
2017 The New York Times Lens. “In Search of the American Family,” Rena Silverman, November 20, 2017
(un)expected families
2017 The Washington Post. “Questioning the definition of the American family, through 150 years of photography,” Chloe Coleman, November 18, 2017
(un)expected families
2017 The Brooklyn Rail. “ANNETTE LEMIEUX: Mise en Scène,” Emily Watlington, November 2, 2017
Annette Lemieux: Mise en Scène
2017 The Bay State Banner. “MFA exhibits invite viewers to slow down, pay attention,” Susan Saccoccia, October 27, 2017
Seeking Stillness
2017 The Boston Globe. “Annette Lemieux didn’t intend her new show to be political — but it is,” Cate McQuaid, September 22, 2017
Annette Lemieux: Mise en Scène
2016 Sculpture. “Megacities Asia,” Suzanne Volmer, December 2016
Megacities Asia
2016 Art in America. “Megacities Asia,” Gavin Kroeber, July 6, 2016
Megacities Asia
2016 The Bay State Banner. “Megacities: Exhibit on scale features artists from some of world’s biggest urban centers,” Susan Saccoccia, June 29, 2016
Megacities Asia
2016 Big Red & Shiny. “Megacities Asia: Celebrating the Hypnotic Pull of the City,” Shana Dumont Garr, June 12, 2016
Megacities Asia
2016 Artscope. “Megacities Asia: Thinking Big at the MFA,” Suzanne Volmer, May/June 2016
Megacities Asia
2016 Artnet News. “Gigantic Installations Captivate at ‘Megacities Asia’ Show,” Sarah Cascone, April 25, 2016
Megacities Asia
2016 The Boston Globe. Editorial: “In Megacities, creativity flourishes on a vast scale,” April 23, 2016
Megacities Asia
2016 The Artery / WBUR. “What the Giant, Polyester Lotus Flower at the MFA Says About Life in Asia’s Megacities,” Andrea Shea, April 11, 2016
Megacities Asia
2016 Boston Magazine. “Giant Fruit Tree to be Inflated at Faneuil Hall on Friday,” Madeline Bills, April 7, 2016
Megacities Asia
2016 The Patriot Ledger. “At the MFA, Asian artists take on ‘Megacities,’” Jody Feinberg, April 6, 2016
Megacities Asia
2016 Smithsonian Magazine / Smithsonian.com. “11 Artists Capture What It Is Like to Live in a Megacity,” Amy Crawford, April 4, 2016
Megacities Asia
2016 BBC News / BBC World. “Art captures constant motion of Asian Megacities,” April 1, 2016; syndicated in the U.S. and Canada; Miner appeared as featured curator/interviewee
Megacities Asia
2016 The Boston Globe. “Abundance & Excess: Art in ‘Megacities Asia’ at MFA evokes life in cities of 10 million or more,” Sebastian Smee, March 31, 2016
Megacities Asia
2016 The Wall Street Journal. “Artists Take on Their Megacities,” Alexandra Wolfe, March 25, 2016
Megacities Asia
2016 The Boston Globe. “What’s the Giant Breathing Flower on the MFA Lawn?” Joe Incollingo, March 24, 2016
Megacities Asia
2015 The Boston Globe. “Bananas ripe with symbolism for Gonzalo Fuenmayor at MFA,” Cate McQuaid, June 23, 2015
Gonzalo Fuenmayor: Tropical Mythologies
2015 El Tiempo. “Europa contra Macondo, en la obra del artista Gonzalo Fuenmayor,” Andrés Arias, April 23, 2015
Gonzalo Fuenmayor: Tropical Mythologies
2014 Apollo. “Gallery: ‘Landscape, abstracted’ at the MFA Boston,” Maggie Gray, August 12, 2014
Landscape, abstracted
2014 The Boston Globe. “Rydz transforms pollution into art at the MFA,” Cate McQuaid, May 22, 2014
Evelyn Rydz: Forever Yours
2013 Boston Magazine. “‘Sense of Place’ Exhibit at the MFA Marks Homecoming for Dawit L. Petros,” Olga Khvan, November 11, 2013
Dawit L. Petros: Sense of Place
2013 The Boston Globe. “Displacement in a Theoretical World,” Cate McQuaid, November 12, 2013
Dawit L. Petros: Sense of Place
2013 The Improper Bostonian. “Site Specific,” Sarah Hagman
Dawit L. Petros: Sense of Place
2012 Publishers Weekly. Review of Ori Gersht: History Repeating, November 12, 2012
Ori Gersht: History Repeating
2012 Big Red & Shiny. “Platforms of Power: Paintings by Daniel Rich at the MFA,” Brian Christopher Glaser, October 19, 2012
Daniel Rich: Platforms of Power
2012 WGBH. “Ori Gersht: Seductive Art with a Statement,” Jared Bowen, September 6, 2012
Ori Gersht: History Repeating
2012 Vanity Fair. “Savage Beauty,” Vicki Goldberg, September 2012
Ori Gersht: History Repeating
2012 The Boston Globe. “Ori Gersht: a camera capturing deceptiveness and dualities,” Mark Feeney, August 31, 2012
Ori Gersht: History Repeating
2012 The New York Times. “Beauty, Tender and Fleeting, Amid History’s Ire,” Hilarie M. Sheets, August 26, 2012
Ori Gersht: History Repeating
2012 The Harvard Crimson. “Gersht’s ‘History’ of Violence in MFA Show,” September 2012
Ori Gersht: History Repeating
2010 ART21 Blog. “Where Was I,” Liz Sheehan, May 10, 2010
Dan Graham / Hirshhorn
2009 The Washington Post. “When a Man’s Home Is His Castle to Care For,” Jessica Dawson, May 22, 2009
Domesticated: Men and the Domestic Interior
2009 Washington City Paper. “Al Miner curates ‘Domesticated’ at Transformer Gallery,” Maura Judkis, May 20, 2009
Domesticated: Men and the Domestic Interior