jared quinton

Jared Quinton is a curator and writer in Connecticut. From 2022-26 he was the contemporary art curator at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, CT, where he oversaw the pioneering MATRIX exhibition series and the museum’s postwar and contemporary collection and galleries. He has organized exhibitions and programs at the Wadsworth, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, The Kitchen (New York), Terremoto La Postal (Mexico City), Ely Center of Contemporary Art (New Haven), Gallery 44 (Toronto), Abrons Art Center (New York), Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), Chicago Artists Coalition, Institute of Fine Arts (New York), Tiger Strikes Asteroid Chicago, and the Williams College Museum of Art (Williamstown, MA). He has written for Artforum, BOMB, The Brooklyn Rail, and e-flux, and has contributed to exhibition catalogues for the Hammer Museum, Blanton Museum, MCA Chicago, Real Art Ways, and Prospect New Orleans. He has held the Marsted Curatorial Fellowship at the Wadsworth Atheneum, the Susman Curatorial Fellowship at the MCA Chicago, and the Rubinstein Curatorial Fellowship at the Whitney Independent Study Program, and has been a guest critic at Hartford Art School / University of Hartford, University of Connecticut, Parsons / The New School, University of Chicago, University of Illinois Chicago, and School of the Art Institute of Chicago, among other institutions and residency programs. He holds art history degrees from Williams College and the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.