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Emilie Trice is a NYC-based curator, writer, 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.


CURATING & EXHIBITION MANAGEMENT
Emilie began her career at Gagosian Gallery in New York City in 2005. Since then, she has managed contemporary art galleries in Aspen, New York City, and Berlin (where she lived for most of her twenties). 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, galleries, museums, and art fairs in Berlin, Brussels, Paris, Vienna, Miami, New York, Los Angeles, Moscow, Abu Dhabi, Shanghai, and beyond.

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.


ART CRITICISM & WRITING
A member of the International Association of Art Critics, Emilie’s writing has been published by The New York Times, Artforum, and The Paris Review, among many other outlets. 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.


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


EDUCATION
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.


ART CONSULTING
Emilie’s art consulting practice is manifold, comprising services for collectors, galleries, art advisors, and artists. She advises collectors and facilitates acquisitions (including sourcing art, negotiating sales, and coordinating shipping, framing, and installation), writes exhibition texts for galleries, designs websites for arts professionals, and offers a range of estate planning services for artists and collectors, from USPAP compliant art appraisals to deaccessioning guidance and archival database management.