Selby Nimrod

A curator, writer, and researcher, Selby Nimrod is SA+P’s inaugural Director of Exhibitions and Commons. In this newly created role, she’ll develop a vibrant program of exhibitions and events for the School’s new home in the Met Warehouse, collaborating with the brilliant thinkers and makers across SA+P’s seven departments as they greet the public for the first time in new galleries, a theater, and other open-access spaces. 

From 2019-2024, Selby was Assistant Curator at the MIT List Visual Arts Center where she organized over a dozen exhibitions including Symbionts: Contemporary Artists and the Biosphere (co-curated with Caroline A. Jones and Natalie Bell) and first museum solo exhibitions with Kite, Lex Brown, Azza El Siddique, Alison Nguyen, Carlos Reyes, and many others. Previously, she held positions at SculptureCenter, New York and Site Projects, New Haven. As an independent curator, she has organized exhibitions, screenings, and performances at the International Studio and Curatorial Program, the Kitchen, Hessel Museum of Art, the Seton Gallery, and a swimsuit factory. 

Selby’s writing has appeared in numerous periodicals, journals, and exhibition catalogues, including the MIT Press Volume for Symbionts, which she also co-edited. She is visiting faculty at MassArt for the 2024-2025 academic year and has served as a guest critic in the sculpture department at the Yale University School of Art and at SMFA Tufts. Selby has juried prizes and residences including Creative Capital, Artadia, Lighthouse Works, and the Hopper Prize. She is the recipient of a 2020 Étant donnés Curatorial Research Fellowship from the French American Cultural Exchange for an inquiry into new media artworks made on CD ROM by queer and femme practitioners in the collection of Espace Multimédia Gantner.

Selby holds an undergraduate degree in Art History from the University of St Andrews, Scotland and an MA from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College.