Aaron Levi Garvey
CEO and Curator
Aaron Levi Garvey is a curator and museum professional, who has worked on a multitude of platforms within the public, private and corporate arts community both nationally and internationally.
Throughout his career Garvey has worked closely with notable artists such as Ryoji Ikeda, Tameka Norris, Gamaliel Rodriguez, Chiharu Shiota, Natalie Krick, Jonah Bokaer, Liu Bolin, Daniel Arsham and Rachel Rossin to name a few. He has contributed essays, texts, interviews and lectures on contemporary art’s culture and its market, through various media outlets, public trusts, museums and universities. In late 2014 he was an Evaluator for Creative Capital’s 2015 Visual Arts grant award review panel and most has recently been a visiting curator at the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans, a guest lecturer at the University of Florida, collaborating curator at Independent Curators International and Visiting Curator at the University of Iowa.
Currently Garvey serves as the CEO and Curator of the Art For Thought foundation and the Curator/Co-Founder of Long Road Projects. Recent exhibitions include: Chiharu Shiota’s site-specific installation “Infinity Lines” at the SCAD Museum of Art, Josh Short’s “Wild One 66 – USA” with Long Road Projects and “Ephemera Obscura” at the Contemporary Art Center of New Orleans. Additionally Garvey’s curated "We Are What You Eat" the inaugural art exhibition at the United Nations headquarters in New York City in conjunction with Art For Thought, which opened in early May 2016 and co-curated the Atlanta Biennial (ATLBNL): Recent Correspondence at the Atlanta Contemporary in August 2016.