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Kelly Kivland

Panelist, 2023

Kelly Kivland is chief curator and director of exhibitions at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, where she has led the exhibitions program since fall 2021. Prior to joining the Wex, she was curator at Dia Art Foundation. Over the past 20 years, Kivland has organized exhibitions, commissions, public projects, and performance programs. Recent curatorial work includes A.K. Burns’ Of space we are…(Wexner Center, 2023); jaamil olawale kosoko’s Portal for(e) the Ephemeral Passage (Wexner Center, 2022); Camille Norment’s Plexus (Dia Chelsea, 2022), Carl Craig’s Party/After-Party (Dia Beacon, 2020), and Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme’s May amnesia never kiss us on the mouth (Dia Artist Web Project, 2020/21). Recent editorial work includes Joan Jonas: next move in a mirror world (Dia Art Foundation, 2023) and Camille Norment: Plexus (Dia Art Foundation, 2022). She holds a master’s degree from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College.  

Grant Years
Michelle Lopez, Ballast & Barricades solo exhibition, installation view, 2019–20, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania. Lopez is creating new works for Moore College of Art & Design’s Michelle Lopez: Pandemonium. Photo by Constance Mensh, courtesy of the artist. 

Introducing Our 2023 Grantees

$9 million in new grants from The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage supports artists and public events that connect art with healing, explore cultural identity, and tell diverse and unique Philadelphia stories.

Learn more about our 2023 grantees