Jess Wilcox is an independent curator. From 2016 to 2022, she was Curator and Director of Exhibitions at Socrates Sculpture Park. There she curated several group and solo exhibitions including Hélio Oiticica Subterranean Penetrable Projects: PN15, Guadalupe Maravilla: Planeta Abuelx, MONUMENTS NOW, Chronos Cosmos: Deep Time, Open Space; Virginia Overton: Built; Nari Ward: G.O.A.T., again, and the Socrates Annual exhibitions.  During her tenure, she organized the first single-artist exhibitions in the Park’s thirty-three year history, re-launched the Park’s publication program and initiated a program of traveling commissioned works to other venues. 

From 2011-2015 she worked at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum where she organized public programs and projects including Between the Door and the Street, a performance initiated by Suzanne Lacy in partnership with Creative Time and A Butterfly for Brooklyn, a pyrotechnic work presented in Prospect Park by Judy Chicago, among others. There she also co-curated Agitprop!, a group exhibition that evolved over time and incorporated artists as co-curators.

She has held positions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, Performa, Abrons Art Center, and SculptureCenter, and curated exhibitions with work by Mary Walling Blackburn, Brendan Fernandes, Ben Hagari, Madeline Hollander, David Horvitz, Las Hermanas Iglesias, Florian Meisenberg, Brie Ruais, Jonathan VanDyke and Wang Xu, among others. She has a BA from Barnard College and a Master’s degree from Bard’s Center for Curatorial Studies.

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