Jacqueline Mabey

Bio

Jacqueline Mabey’s work is shaped by studies at Wilfrid Laurier University, McGill University, and The University of British Columbia, and by multifarious professional experience in commercial galleries, museums, and artist studios. Mabey is a co-founder of Art+Feminism, an international, activist curatorial platform based out of The Museum of Modern Art, New York. They have curated the work of artists including Yael Bartana, Hannah Black, Kate Gilmore, Brendan Fernandes, Ken Gonzales-Day, Jen Liu, Tanya Lukin Linklater, Jumana Manna, Divya Mehra, Lorraine O’Grady, and Addie Wagenknecht, and spoken at venues such as Cornell University, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Columbia University, International Center of Photography, Printed Matter, and the Gardiner Museum. In 2014, they were named a Leading Global Thinker by Foreign Policy magazine. Mabey works independently under the honorific, failed projects. They were born in New Jersey, raised in Nova Scotia, and currently live with a small dog by a large park in Brooklyn.