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Emilie Trice is a curator & writer specializing in contemporary art, design & new media.

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Pictured with Maxime Ballesteros, Zhivago Duncan and David Nicholson for Sleek Mag, berlin


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 exhibitions at biennials, art fairs and galleries in Berlin, Brussels, Paris, Vienna, Miami, New York, Los Angeles, Moscow, Abu Dhabi, and Shanghai.

A member of the International Association of Art Critics, Emilie’s writing has been published by the 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.

As a 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. For the 2020 Ars Electronica Festival, she curated a VR exhibition with a focus on Latino digital artists entitled Garden del Rio Grande. In 2023, Emilie curated the new media exhibition You Made Our Reality Into A Game?!?! Pixels, Politics and Play with Rafael Fajardo at the Southern Utah Museum of Art (SUMA). Emilie’s 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)

 

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, Emilie 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.

Her artwork incorporates video, found objects, and digital processes, and has been exhibited in Berlin, New York, LA, Aspen, Miami, Austin, Denver, and San Francisco, where she was an artist-in-residence at Villa SF, an initiative of the French Consulate. From 2021—2022, she was an artist with Redline’s satellite studio program at the historic Evans School in downtown Denver.

Emilie currently lives and works in New York City.

Emilie Trice
Skills in Pandemic, 2022
Single-channel video projection on the Denver clock tower, curated by Sharifa Moore