Cecilia Alemani is an Italian curator based in New York City. Since 2011, she has been the Donald R. Mullen, Jr. Director & Chief Curator of High Line Art, the public art program presented by the High Line in New York City. She is also the curator of the upcoming 12th SITE Santa Fe International, scheduled to open in June 2025. From 2020 to 2022, she served as artistic director of the 59th Venice Biennale, where she curated the acclaimed exhibition The Milk of Dreams, which was visited by over 800,000 visitors.
In recent years, she has curated several exhibitions, including Tetsuya Ishida: My Anxious Self, the first American retrospective of Japanese painter Tetsuya Ishida at Gagosian Gallery in New York (2023); Making Their Mark, the first public presentation of the Shah Garg Collection, a major exhibition showcasing the works of more than 80 of the most significant women artists from the last eight decades (548 West 22nd Street, New York, 2023; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, 2024); Anu Põder: Space for My Body, the first solo exhibition presented outside Estonia of works by Anu Põder, at Muzeum Susch, Switzerland (2024). She also served as artistic director of the inaugural edition of Art Basel Cities: Buenos Aires in 2018 and was the curator of the Italian Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale in 2017. Over the past twenty years, Alemani has developed an expertise in commissioning and producing ambitious artworks for the public space and unusual sites.
Courtesy the High Line, photo Liz Ligon