About

Caitlin Swindell joined the Vero Beach Museum of Art as Chief Curator in March 2024. Previously she was the Curator of Collections and Exhibitions at the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami where she was responsible for developing annual exhibitions drawn from the collection and broader partnerships. She has close to fifty exhibition projects, publications, reviews, and articles to her credit, and she curated two exhibitions that were highlighted in a New York Times review: Order Up! The Pop Art of John Miller and Expressions of Self: Arnold Newman’s Artist Portraits in Context (October 2023).

Before the Lowe, Caitlin held curatorial positions in modern and contemporary art at the Denver Art Museum, as well as the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Jacksonville. She received an M.A. in Art History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a B.A. in Art History and Anthropology from Tulane University in New Orleans, LA. She specializes in global contemporary art and modern American art, with an interest in interdisciplinary artwork that delves into concepts of identity. Her focus reflects the intricate social and cultural realities of the present day, and her curatorial approach emphasizes exhibitions that offer diverse perspectives and interpretive goals.

Caitlin’s writing has been included in numerous exhibition catalogs and peer-reviewed journals. She contributed a chapter for a Routledge Press edited volume entitled, Curating Access: Disability Art Activism and Creative Accommodation in which she discusses the incorporation of Irish Sign Language in artist Amanda Coogan’s performance work. She has written on public art, cinema, photography, works by contemporary women artists, and art of the African diaspora published in Burnaway, African Arts, Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism, and Public Art Dialogue, among others. Additionally, she earned a competitive spot in a curatorial residency focusing on Eastern European contemporary art in Budapest, Hungary and Bratislava, Slovakia. She was also selected to participate in the Voices for Contemporary Art (VoCA) Artist Interview Workshop hosted at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) in 2020.

Caitlin has also worked as an art consultant and gallery assistant in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and completed internships at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, the New Orleans Museum of Art, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services, among others.