bio

Dr. Jessi DiTillio is a curator, writer, and art historian and a co-founding member of Neon Queen Collective and Thunderstruck Collective. Currently she works for the Hammer Museum as Project Manager of Exhibitions and Publications. She researches 20th century American Art with a focus on critical race theory, affect theory, gender and sexuality, and contemporary art engaging the politics of difference. She earned her PhD in the Department of Art + Art History at the University of Texas at Austin.

She was a 2019-2020 Luce/ACLS American Art Dissertation Fellow and has held curatorial fellowships at the Visual Arts Center at UT Austin, the Art Galleries at Black Studies, and The Contemporary Austin. Before beginning her doctoral program, she served as Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art and Interim Director of the Association for Academic Museums and Galleries.