SEATTLE, WA.- After a competitive national search, the Frye Art Museum announced that Georgia Erger has joined the museum as Associate Curator, effective November 2021. Originally from Toronto, Erger is a curator specializing in contemporary art with a focus on lens-based and new media. Most recently, she held the position of Assistant Curator at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, where she curated solo exhibitions including Claudia Rankine and John Lucas: Situations and Caroline Monnet: Bridging Distance, as well as group exhibitions including Hyper Text: The Video Essay and the Expanded Field of Audiovisuality. Georgia also worked closely with museum’s collection, organizing numerous collection exhibitions including Visual Citizenship and Nature Morte that put the historical into cross-genre conversations with the contemporary. During her tenure at the MSU Broad, Georgia also assisted in the organization of other major exhibitions and accompanying catalogues, including Michigan Stories: Mike Kelley and Jim Shaw; David Lamelas: Fiction of a Production; and The Edge of Things: Dissident Art under Repressive Regimes. She holds an MA (Distinction) in Art History from the Courtauld Institute of Art and a BA in Art History and English from the University of Toronto.

"The Frye is widely recognized for the intellectual rigor of its contemporary art exhibition program and for the care with which it holds and supports artists’ voices and work," Georgia says. "I look forward to collaborating with local and inter/national artists, as well as working with the exceptional Frye collection, to create socially relevant exhibitions that achieve the integrity and originality communities in this region and beyond have rightly come to expect from the Frye. It is an honor to join the incredible staff at the Frye and I hope to contribute to the vital role the Frye plays in shaping the cultural life of Seattle and fostering inclusive contemporary dialogues."

"We are thrilled to welcome Georgia to the Frye," says Director/CEO Joseph Rosa. "Her track record of fruitful collaboration with artists, as well as her investment in thoughtful and accessible scholarship will be an asset to our curatorial program. I know she is excited to immerse herself in the arts communities of Seattle and the Pacific Northwest and shares our organizational commitment to engage with the pressing social issues of this vibrantly diverse region."

Most immediately Georgia will be organizing the Frye’s presentation of the traveling exhibition Romare Bearden: Abstractions, originated by the American Federation of Arts and the Neuberger Museum of Art of Purchase College, State University of New York, opening at the Frye in summer 2022.