NEW YORK, NY.- Independent Curators International announces the appointment of Amanda Parmer as Director of Programs.

In this newly created position, Parmer will oversee the advancement of ICI’s exhibitions, public programs and publications, and professional development initiatives for curators. She will integrate ICI programs and international collaborations to better serve the organization’s mission to promote knowledge-exchange, broad access to contemporary art, and public awareness for the role of the curator in contemporary art.

She brings a wide range of experience to ICI: Parmer was the first full-time Curator of the New School’s Vera List Center for Art and Politics since 2016, where she developed a dynamic program of exhibitions in tandem with public events. Over the last 15 years in New York, Parmer has organized programs at the Abrons Art Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Cooper Union, e-flux, High Line, The Kitchen, New Museum, The New School, The New York Armory and Volta Shows, and Sunview Luncheonette, as well as Cleopatra's in Brooklyn and Berlin. She is a contributor to numerous periodicals including Art in America, Art&Education, Artforum, Bomblog and Public Seminar, and has recently contributed essays such as "Tunisian-Lampedusian Migrants as Commodities" for the catalogue accompanying ICI’s exhibition The Ocean After Nature; "Yoko Ono Shaking the Sign" for the Henie Onstad Kunstcenter's A Pendaflex; "Our Human Entanglements with Corporeal and Terrestrial Grounds" for Marie Kølbæk Iversen's If the Earth Were a Body Borders Would be Wounds; and "Interval" for the Dictionary of the Possible. In 2014 she initiated Parmer, a New York-based curatorial platform for exhibiting, programming and writing that focuses on queer and feminist strategies and post-colonial analysis.

“We are thrilled to welcome Amanda to the team at such an exciting period of growth for ICI,” said Renaud Proch, Executive Director of ICI. “ICI has pioneered new programs that reflect the rapid expansion of the curatorial field over the last decade, with “first-ever” public programs and professional development opportunities for curators. Amanda will leverage this recent past and ICI’s 43-year history of traveling exhibitions to activate new collaborations from across our networks in all 50 US states and in 68 countries.”

“I have long admired ICI for its forward-thinking programs and exhibitions at the forefront of curatorial practice that create local engagement and an international scope of relations,” said Amanda Parmer. “I am eager to work with the curators, artists and art spaces in ICI’s dynamic network to think together about the relationships that art, institutions and pedagogy hold; what physical and discursive spaces are available for the cultural production of our contemporary moment; who has access to these spaces and how might they need to change.”