Nohl Jurors
Each year, the Nohl Fellows are selected by an independent panel of three recognized visual arts professionals working outside the four-county area. Jurors are chosen for their broad knowledge of contemporary art practices. Since its inception, the Nohl Fellowship has intentionally taken into account race, ethnicity, gender, age, geographical location--as well as curatorial interests and the likelihood that the home institution would show a Milwaukee artist—when recruiting jurors.
The 2026 jurors are:
Anthony Graham, Senior Curator at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, California
Mia Lopez, Curator of Latinx Art at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, Texas
Eileen Jeng Lynch, Director of Curatorial Programs, The Bronx Museum, New York
About the 2026 Jurors
Anthony Graham is Senior Curator at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, where he organizes exhibitions across the museum's program and works closely with the museum collection. His recent exhibitions include Object Oriented: Abstraction and Design in the BAMPFA Collection and solo projects with Tanya Aguiñiga, Young Joon Kwak, and Griselda Rosas.
Photo Courtesy of BAMPFA
Mia Lopez is the inaugural Curator of Latinx Art at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, Texas. She has worked with artists and leading contemporary art institutions across the United States for over 15 years. She recently curated the exhibition Rasquachsimo: 35 Years of a Chicano Sensibility and co-curated the exhibition Synthesis & Subversion: Redux at Ruby City. Lopez has previously held curatorial positions at DePaul Art Museum in Chicago and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Exhibitions and publications she has contributed to include Remember Where You Are, LatinXAmerican, and International Pop. Lopez is an alumnus of the Smithsonian Latino Museum Studies Program and the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture Leadership Institute. She holds a BA in Art History from Rice University and dual MAs in Art History and Arts Administration from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Eileen Jeng Lynch is The Bronx Museum’s Director of Curatorial Programs who stewards the Museum’s curatorial initiatives and exhibition schedule with an eye toward expanding its presence in The Bronx and beyond. Jeng Lynch made her curatorial debut at The Bronx Museum with Abigail DeVille: Bronx Heavens, the artist’s first museum survey, which traveled as In the Fullness of Time to Bowdoin College Museum of Art in 2024. Jeng Lynch also curated Bronx Calling: The Sixth AIM Biennial, an exhibition showcasing work by artists who completed The Bronx Museum's flagship AIM Fellowship, a career accelerator program designed to give promising artists the knowledge and skills to sustain a successful practice. Previously, Jeng Lynch was the Senior Curator of Visual Arts at Wave Hill in The Bronx, where she organized exhibitions and programs, commissioned artists for site-specific projects, and managed the residency and emerging artists programs. Jeng Lynch has held positions at RxArt, Sperone Westwater, and The Art Institute of Chicago in the Department of Contemporary Art, and she has been a guest curator at various organizations and galleries. As the founder of Neumeraki, Jeng Lynch has launched national and global community-based curatorial initiatives. Jeng Lynch received her MA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and BA from Syracuse University.
Photo credit: Kevin Li
Past Jurors
2025
Efe Igor Coleman, Independent Curator, Memphis, Tennessee
Raphael Fonseca, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art, Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
Adia Sykes, Independent Curator and Program Manager, United States Artists, Chicago
2024
Allison Glenn, Independent Curator and Writer, New York, NY
Misa Jeffereis, Associate Curator, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri
Anisa Olufemi, Independent Curator and Fellowship Manager, Hamiltonian Artists, Washington, DC
2023
Jadine Collingwood, Assistant Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Thomas James, Independent Curator and Executive Director, The Last Resort Artist Retreat, Baltimore, Maryland
Kimi Kitada, Jedel Family Foundation Curatorial Fellow at Charlotte Street Foundation, Kansas City, Missouri
2022
Jade Powers, Assistant Curator, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Victoria Sung, Associate Curator of Visual Arts, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Toccarra A. H. Thomas, Media and performance artist, film programmer, and arts administrator; currently director of the Joan Mitchell Center, New Orleans, Louisiana
2020
Kimberli Gant, McKinnon Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art, Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia
Ashley James, Associate Curator, Contemporary Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Shamim M. Momin, Director of Curatorial Affairs, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, Washington
2019
Dean Daderko, Curator at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston.
Janet Dees, Steven and Lisa Munster Tananbaum Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
Jessica Hong, Associate Curator of Global Contemporary Art at the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College
2018
Lucy Mensah, Independent Curator and Visiting Assistant Professor of Museum and Exhibition Studies at the University of Illinois in Chicago’s School of Art & Art History
Risa Puleo, Independent Curator
Ashley Stull Meyers, Co-Curator 2019 Portland Biennial, Portland, Oregon
2017
Michelle Jacques, Chief Curator, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Canada
Allison Peters Quinn, Director of Exhibitions & Residency Programs, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
Gabriel Ritter, Curator and Head of Contemporary Art at the Minneapolis Institute of Art
2016
JoAnne Northrup, Curatorial Director and Curator of Contemporary Art, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno
Valerie Cassel Oliver, Senior Curator at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
Julie Rodrigues Widholm, Director and Chief Curator, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago
2015
Jamillah James, Assistant Curator, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Eric May, Executive Director, Roots & Culture Contemporary Art Center, Chicago
Jodi Throckmorton, Curator of Contemporary Art, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), Philadelphia
2014
Courtney Fink, Executive Director, Southern Exposure, San Francisco
Daniel Fuller, Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art at the Maine College of Art, Portland
Naima J. Keith, Assistant Curator at The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
2013
Naomi Beckwith, Marilyn and Larry Fields Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Evan J. Garza, Exhibitions & Public Programs Coordinator at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Co-founder and Assistant Director of Fire Island Artist Residency (FIAR)
Gretchen Wagner, Curator, Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis
2012
Lisa Dent, Director, Grants & Services, Creative Capital, New York, New York
Astria Suparak, Director & Curator, Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Irene Tsatsos, Chief Curator/Director of Gallery Programs, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, California
2011
Xandra Eden, Curator of Exhibitions at the Weatherspoon Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Tumelo Mosaka, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Krannert Art Museum, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
Elizabeth Thomas, Phyllis Wattis MATRIX Curator at Berkeley Art Museum, California
2010
Sheryl Conkelton, art historian/curator/writer, Philadelphia
Nathan Lee, critic/curator, New York
Lucía Sanromán, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
2009
Jennie C. Jones, artist, New York
Toby Kamps, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
Barbara Wiesen, Gahlberg Gallery, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, Illinois
2008
Eva Gonzalez-Sancho, FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon, France
Valerie Mercer, Detroit Institute of Arts
Laurel Reuter, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks
2007
Clara Kim, REDCAT, Los Angeles
Ingrid Schaffner, ICA, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Hamza Walker, Renaissance Society, Chicago
2006
Dominic Molon, MCA Chicago
Alma Ruiz, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Nadine Wasserman, independent curator, New York
2005
René DeGuzman, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
Nato Thompson/MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts
Jane Simon, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art
2004
Patricia Hickson, Des Moines Art Center
Habib Kheradyar, POST, Los Angeles
Sue Spaid, independent curator, Cincinnati
2003
Lorelei Stewart, Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois-Chicago.
Tim Peterson, Franklin Art Works, Minneapolis
Barbara Hunt, Artists Space, New York
For further information:
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Lynden Sculpture Garden
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