About

Emilie Trice is a writer and curator

specializing in contemporary art and new media.

Pictured with artists Zhivago Duncan, Maxime Ballesteros, and David Nicholson for Sleek Mag, Berlin.

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Emilie began her career at Gagosian Gallery in New York City in 2005. Since then, she has managed contemporary art galleries in New York, Aspen, and Berlin. She’s a member of the International Association of Art Critics and has organized dozens of exhibitions at museums, galleries, and art fairs in cities including Abu Dhabi, Basel, Berlin, Brussels, Paris, Moscow, Miami, Los Angeles, and Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Emilie’s writing has been published by The New York Times, Artforum, The Paris Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Southwest Contemporary, Sleek Magazine (Berlin), and DAMN° Mag (Brussels), among many other outlets. Her texts and translations (German > English) have also appeared in catalogues for galleries and institutions such as 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.

Emilie’s curatorial work 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’s also curated exhibitions for institutions including Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria) and the Southern Utah Museum of Art (SUMA). During her time in Aspen, Emilie co-curated an annual gallery show of works by Andy Warhol, in collaboration with Christie’s and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. 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 Art, Culture & Technology from the University of Denver. She has exhibited her artwork across the US and in Berlin. 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 was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and currently lives and works in beautiful Colorado.

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