Arts Curator and Assistant Director, Arts Programming
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About
Amanda Krugliak is a curator and arts administrator best known for performative, conceptual, and experiential installations. The arts curator is in charge of programming for the Institute for the Humanities Gallery. Since 2009 she has led projects with Mark Dion, Mary Mattingly, Ebony G. Patterson, Sonya Clark, Ramiro Gomez, Alison Bechdel, Matthew Angelo Harrison, Gideon Mendel, Tracey Snelling, and Chico MacMurtrie, among others. In 2012, she co-created the installation State of Exception with artist Richard Barnes and U-M anthropologist Jason De León based upon De León's Undocumented Migration Project, which received national and international attention. Krugliak also served as consultant/curator for Michele Norris's 2013 Race Card Project performance and installation (2013) and co-curator of Object Lessons (2017) based upon the historic Ruthven Museums Building and University of Michigan collections. Her essay about Richard Barnes's work was published in the book Object Lessons, University Press, 2017. In 2017, she was awarded the LSA Spotlight Award and University Impact Award.
In 2020, during the pandemic, Krugliak worked with artist Ibrahim Mahama, successfully launching his installation In-between the World and Dreams on the outer facades of the University of Michigan Museum of Art.
She is frequently a guest lecturer and leads workshops on curating scholarship and the gallery as a social justice practice.
