We are honored to work with these Curators and are looking forward to introducing their work to the community in our 2025-2026 Exhibition Calendar.

Lauren Klenow: Selvedge
Opening: June 21st 2025

Lauren Klenow is a sculptor, curator, and educator working across disciplines to create throughlines between artists, places, and audiences. Interested in the intersection of art and its environment, Klenow has curated and produced exhibitions in both conventional galleries and alternative spaces. In 2019, she curated Solar Flashback, a show of women artists working with light, film, and sound, staged in a former retail space in New York’s South Street Seaport. Currently part of the production staff at MoMA PS1, Klenow has also managed exhibitions and public programs at Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and Gage Academy of Art. Klenow holds an MFA from NYU and a bachelor’s from the University of Washington, and her work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, Queens Art Fund, and Artist Trust. She has participated in residencies with the Karl Hofer Gesellschaft in Berlin and Centrum in Port Townsend, and has exhibited her work internationally

Caitlin Monachino and Gretchen Kraus: Still Point
Sept 6th 2025 Opening

Caitlin Monachino is the Curatorial and Publications Manager at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum. Since joining The Aldrich in 2018, Caitlin has organized presentations with artists Wen Liu, Maya Jeffereis, Moko Fukuyama, Esther Ruiz, Amy Brener, and Adrienne Elise Tarver; curated Yvette Mayorga: Dreaming of You (2023), the artist's first East coast solo museum exhibition; and worked on several large-scale shows including 52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone (2022) and Frank Stella’s Stars, A Survey (2020). Future projects include Julia Bland: Woven in the Reeds (May 2025) as well as a presentation with Vermont-based artist Estefania Puerta (September 2025). Prior to her time at The Aldrich, Caitlin received a Masters in Art History, Criticism, and Theory from SUNY Purchase, where she was selected as the 2017 Neuberger Curatorial Fellow and organized the exhibition Françoise Gilot: The Tamarind Years.

Gretchen Kraus is a graphic designer and art director. She is currently Design Director for The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum. Prior to this she worked as a designer, art director and production coordinator working with artist Julian Schnabel on projects with Creative Time, The Brant Foundation Art Study Center, Museo Correr, University of Michigan Museum of Art and NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale. She earned her BA in Studio Arts at Hampshire College. In 2018 Kraus co-founded Space Sisters Press, an artist-centric publisher.

Austin Johnson and Peter Kelly: Penumbra: Beyond the Uncanny Valley
Opening Spring 2026

Peter Kelly is a self-taught curator, artist, and advisor. His curatorial and advisory practice is to act as incubator and a connector–making new connections between artists, amplifying voices, and broadening audiences. His interests include installation-based art, artist collectives, and mapping webs of influence and dialogue between artists.

Austin Johnson is a musician and independent curator originally from Chicago now based in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. He received a B.A. in Art History from Yale where his scholarship and curatorial work focused on interrogations of colonial practices of the British Empire and Afro Modernism. His experience with jazz and electronic music heavily influences his interests in curatorial practices and histories that underscore the contributions of performance art to postmodernism and contemporary decolonizing curatorial practices.