Alexa Greist
Curator & R. Fraser Elliott Chair, Prints and Drawings
Selected AGO exhibitions:
I AM HERE: Home Movies and Everyday Masterpieces (2022)
Migrations of Line: Julie Mehretu and Antoinette Bouzonnet-Stella (2021-2022)
Mail Art, Break the Rules: The Shit Must Stop Portfolio (2019)
Rise of the Rock Poster and the Summer of Love (2017)
Background: Prior to joining the AGO in 2016, Alexa Greist held curatorial positions at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Yale University Art Gallery. She holds a Ph.D from the University of Pennsylvania focused on Italian printed drawing books, and a Master’s degree, also from the University of Pennsylvania, with a M.A. thesis on the early drawings of Joseph Stella. Greist’s area of specialty is Italian Renaissance and Baroque prints and drawings.