Alison Burstein
Alison Burstein is a Curator at The Kitchen in New York, where she organizes exhibitions, artist residencies, archival research initiatives, and digital programming and publications. Recent projects include The Kitchen L.A.B. Research Residency in partnership with the Simons Foundation and the School for Poetic Computation (fall 2022–fall 2023); the archive presentation "Live! From The Kitchen Archives" (fall 2022); the performance commission Beau Bree Rhee: "Shadow of the Sea" in partnership with Madison Square Park Conservancy; and the group exhibition "In Support" (fall 2021–spring 2022). She previously served as Program Director at the nonprofit art space Recess (New York) and as a member of the education departments at MoMA, the Guggenheim Museum, and the Brooklyn Museum. She has organized programs and exhibitions for institutions including Tenthaus (Oslo, Norway); The Luminary (St. Louis, MO); Knockdown Center (Brooklyn, NY); Mana Contemporary (Jersey City, New Jersey); the Museum of Jurassic Technology (Los Angeles, CA); and NURTUREart (Brooklyn, NY). Her writing has appeared in artist monographs and in publications including Tate Etc.Burstein’s academic and curatorial research focuses on the intersections of institution building and institutional critique in the United States and Europe from the 1970s through the present. She holds an MA in Art History from Columbia University and a BA from Wesleyan University.
