Erin Dziedzic
Erin Dziedzic is director of curatorial affairs at Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, where she has curated Siah Armajani: Bridge Builder (2016), Rashid Johnson: Hail We Now Sing Joy (2017), co-curated Magnetic Fields: Expanding American Abstraction, 1960s to Today (2017), Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Pulse Topology (2021), Denzil Forrester: Duppy Conqueror (2022), and Virginia Jaramillo: Principle of Equivalence (2023) among many others. She originated Kemper Museum’s Atrium Project, featuring commissioned projects by Hispanic and Latinx artists. Dziedzic has written catalog essays for artists Polly Apfelbaum, Siah Armajani, Adam Cvijanovic, Angela Dufresne, Virginia Jaramillo, Jeff Sonhouse, and Summer Wheat.
In Conversation
Virginia Jaramillo with Erin Dziedzic
Virginia Jaramillo has a longstanding connection to Kansas City, Missouri. In 1975, her work was displayed at the Douglas Drake Gallery in Kansas City as part of the group exhibition Less is More. This exhibition generated momentum and interest in her work, resulting in acquisitions by various institutional and private collections in the area, including Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. In 2019, curator Erin Dziedzic and Jaramillo met for the first time.
