Patricia Hickson has been the Emily Hall Tremaine Curator of Contemporary Art at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut since 2009. She oversees the contemporary art collection and acquisitions, organizes special exhibitions and leads the MATRIX program, a series of changing exhibitions of contemporary art. Her MATRIX projects have featured artists Ahmed Alsoudani, Claire Beckett, Shaun Gladwell, Kitty Kraus, Justin Lowe, Rashaad Newsome, Kim Schoenstadt, Deb Sokolow and Jan Tichy. Hickson previously held curatorial positions at the Des Moines Art Center, Williams College Museum of Art, San Jose Museum of Art, and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. She has organized major exhibitions with artists Sol LeWitt, Robyn O'Neil, Alec Soth, Michael McMillen, Patricia Piccinini, Enrique Chagoya, Carmen Lomas Garza, and James Welling, among others. She has served on numerous panels and juries, including the National Endowment for the Humanities, Creative Capital, and the U.S. General Services Administration's Art in Architecture Program. Hickson earned a BA in art from Bates College and a MA in art history from Williams College.

Monday, March 25, 2013, 6 pm
Room 112, SMFA, Mission Hill Building, 160 Saint Alphonsus St.
Image: Courtesy Justin Lowe