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Emilie Trice is an arts writer, curator, and consultant specializing in contemporary art and new media.

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Image: Emilie Trice pictured (top) with artists Zhivago Duncan, Maxime Ballesteros, and David Nicholson for Sleek Mag in Berlin.

Emilie began her career at Gagosian Gallery in New York City in 2005. Since then, she has managed contemporary art galleries in Berlin (where she lived for most of her twenties), New York City, and Aspen. While in Aspen, Emilie co-curated an annual exhibition of works by Andy Warhol in collaboration with Christie’s and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. She has organized over 100 exhibitions at biennials, museums, galleries, and art fairs in cities including Berlin, Brussels, Paris, Vienna, Miami, New York, Los Angeles, Moscow, Abu Dhabi, Shanghai, and beyond.

Emilie is a member of the International Association of Art Critics. Her writing has been published by The New York Times, Artforum, The Paris Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Southwest Contemporary, SLEEK Magazine (Berlin), DAMN° Mag (Brussels), and SOMA Magazine (San Francisco), among many other outlets.

Emilie’s texts and translations (German > English) have also appeared in exhibition catalogues for galleries and art institutions including Contemporary Fine Arts (Berlin), Akademie Schloss Solitude, Gazelli Art House, and Sundaram Tagore Gallery. In 2019, her essay on artist Ted Riederer was published by the Brooklyn Academy of Music—America’s oldest performing arts venue—and sealed in a time capsule inside the wall of the museum’s Rudin Family Gallery for the Visual Arts, to be opened in 100 years.

As an independent curator, Emilie focuses on large-scale group shows in alternative spaces, such as an underground parking garage in Kazakhstan, a defunct industrial brewery in Berlin, and a historic schoolhouse in Denver. She has also curated exhibitions for institutions including Ars Electronica and the Southern Utah Museum of Art (SUMA). Her work has received press coverage in The Aspen Times, Modern Painters, Artforum.com, The New York Times, The Economist, and other outlets.

Southern Utah Museum of Art (SUMA), venue of “You Made our Reality Into A Game?!?!?” curated by Emilie Trice (2023)

Emilie holds a BA in German, Studio Art, and Art History from Middlebury College in Vermont and a master’s degree in Emergent Digital Practices (Art+Tech) from the University of Denver. Prior to and throughout her graduate studies, she worked for several art/tech start-ups, which collectively raised over $20 million in VC funding from firms including GV (Google Ventures), Betaworks, and Lupa Systems, among others.

Emilie consults for a variety of arts organizations, galleries, artist estates, and private collectors. Her services include acquisition advising, collection management and digital archiving, installation and exhibition project management, and USPAP compliant appraisals. She has also exhibited her artwork in Aspen, Austin, Berlin, Denver, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, and San Francisco. Emilie lives and works in New York City.

Skills in Pandemic, 2022 | Single-channel video & projection mapping by Emilie Trice, projected onto the Denver Clock Tower. Curated by Sharifa Moore.