AMLC Presents: Dara Meyers-Kingsley Speaker Series

Dara Meyers-Kingsley has extensive experience as a contemporary art curator with an interdisciplinary curatorial practice. Her exhibitions, often including visual art, media, installation, and performance have been presented at LA MOCA, MCA Chicago, The New Museum, The Andy Warhol Museum, Miami MOCA, the Brooklyn Museum and the Mattress Factory among others. Her most recent show was at the Kentler International Drawing Space in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Earlier in her career, she was Director of the Film and Video Collections for the Andy Warhol Foundation and curator of Film and Video at the Brooklyn Museum. Ms. Meyers-Kingsley has lectured on media art history in the United States and abroad and is the author of museum catalogs and journal and magazine articles on contemporary art.

As an educator she has taught aspiring artists in Parsons’ MFA Studio Art Program, undergraduates in Hunter’s Macaulay Honors College and, since 2011, the first year Muse Scholars.

A Distinguished Lecturer at Hunter, Dara Meyers-Kingsley is the Muse Scholar Program Director and Faculty Mentor. She is also the Founding Director of the Office of the Arts for the entire college where she is the liaison for the college’s cultural partnerships with arts and cultural institutions throughout NYC. She also previously served as the Director of the Mellon Arts Fellowship Program and the Arts Across the Curriculum initiative at Hunter.

Ms. Meyers-Kingsley holds an MA in Cinema Studies from New York University and a BA in Art History from Barnard College, Columbia University.