Jadine Collingwood Pamela Alper Associate Curator
About
Jadine Collingwood holds a PhD in Art History from the University of Chicago, where she completed her dissertation, 'A Tragic Suburban Mentality’: Managerial Lyricism in Contemporary Art. At the MCA, she has curated projects including Chicago Works: Caroline Kent (2021), Martine Syms: She Mad Season One (2022), Gary Simmons: Public Enemy (with René Morales, 2023), and Nicole Eisenman: What Happened (organized by Monika Bayer-Wermuth and Mark Godfrey, 2024). She is currently developing Slow Dance, a group exhibition on performance planned for Fall 2026. Previously, she worked at the Walker Art Center where she was part of the curatorial team for several exhibitions, including the major retrospective Siah Armajani: Follow This Line (with Victoria Sung, 2018), the group exhibition The Body Electric (with Pavel Pyś, 2019), and the multidisciplinary exhibition The Paradox of Stillness (with Vincenzo de Bellis, 2021). Prior to the Walker, Collingwood was an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at the Art Institute of Chicago, where she assisted with the exhibitions Design Episodes: The Modern Chair (2016) and Helena Almeida: Work Is Never Finished (2017).