Curator Tracy McKenna with Paul Walker's painting

Tracy McKenna is a bicoastal independent curator with recent shows at Gold/Montclair (Montclair, NJ), Flinn Gallery (Greenwich, CT), Able Baker Contemporary (Portland, ME), and Rick Wester Fine Art (Chelsea, NYC). Tracy began her career in the arts with positions at Washington Project for the Arts, the Phillips Collection, and ICA Boston, and served on the board of Franklin Street Works (Stamford, CT). She has been a Visiting Critic for the Wassaic Project and NYC Crit Club, wrote a catalogue essay for The Landing (Los Angeles), and has moderated Artist Talks for galleries in New York, Boston, and Los Angeles. Tracy received her BA in Cultural Philosophy at Carnegie Mellon, with a particular focus on pop culture. Before turning her attention to curating a decade ago, she coordinated artist-, dance-, and writer-in-residency programs for her local Title I elementary school; started a free weekly children’s art program at a library; and relocated internationally twice while raising two children.