BIOGRAPHY

Maura Reilly is Director of the Zimmerli Art Museum and Professor of Art History at Rutgers University. She is the Founding Curator of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum, where she developed and launched the first exhibition and public programming space in the USA devoted entirely to feminist art. While there, she organized several landmark exhibitions, including the permanent installation of Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party, the blockbuster Global Feminisms (co-curated with Linda Nochlin), among others. Reilly has curated dozens of exhibitions internationally with a focus on marginalized artists and social justice concerns, including transfeminisms (2024-5), Michelle Agins: Storyteller (2024), Judy Watson: Shadow Bone (2024), Wandamba yalungka/Winds change direction (2021), among many others. Reilly has written extensively on contemporary art and curatorial practice, including Curatorial Activism: Towards an Ethics of Curating (Thames & Hudson, 2018) and Museums and Social Justice (2025), both published by Thames & Hudson. She received her MA and PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU.