The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum

Elizabeth Englander (b. 1988, Boston, MA) lives and works in New York, NY. She received her BFA from The Rhode Island School of Design in 2011 and her MFA from Hunter College in 2019. Recent solo exhibitions include: House of Gaga, Guadalajara (2023); Liste Art Fair Basel, solo presentation with Theta (2023); Theta, New York (2022); Smart Objects, Los Angeles (2021); From the Desk of Lucy Bull, Los Angeles (2019). Group exhibitions have been held at: White Columns, New York (2023); Lomex, New York, (2022); What Pipeline, Detroit (2022); Theta, New York (2021); Smart Objects, Los Angeles (2021); Night Gallery, Los Angeles (2021); Safe Gallery, Brooklyn (2019); and Muzeum Ikon, Warsaw, PL (2018).

Eduardo Andres Alfonso is a curator and architect. He is the Associate Curator at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum. Using research to situate exhibition histories within larger social, economic, and political contexts, Alfonso’s curatorial practice engages audiences through new commissions and innovative exhibition design. Alfonso was the Associate-Curator-at-Large at The Shed in New York City where he worked on The Yanomami Struggle and the Open Call 2023: Visual Arts Group Show, where he worked with eleven artists to develop new commissions for the exhibition. Prior to his time at The Shed he completed a Masters in Curatorial Studies at Bard College’s Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College where he curated Frame (Traced) (2022), a new commission with artist Alan Ruiz that surveyed how architecture and protocol structure access to the museum and its resources. While at CCS Bard Alfonso also co-curated Ñande Róga (2021) and FIGURE DOOR PASSAGE (2022). During his time attending CCS Bard, Alfonso was Curator-in-Residence at EMPAC in Troy, NY, where he co-curated Conspiracy Influencer (2022), and a Curatorial Fellow at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University (2021).

Alfonso’s other curatorial projects include The Personal Laboratory (2018) and The Hong Kong Journey (2018), archival exhibitions on the architect Paul Rudolph at The Modulightor Building (New York, NY) and The Center for Architecture (New York, NY), respectively; as well as exhibitions with Downs and Ross (New York, NY), A+A Gallery (Venice, Italy), and King’s Leap (New York, NY). Alfonso was an adjunct lecturer at The Spitzer School of Architecture at City College (2018-20) and a visiting assistant tutor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Architecture (2015). He received a Bachelor’s in Architecture from The Cooper Union’s Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture (2014).