Alexis Assam is the Regenia A Perry Assistant Curator of Global Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA), where she is co-curator of Pop to Present: American Art from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Assam joined the museum in late 2021 and organised the Richmond presentation of the travelling survey exhibition Whitfield Lovell: Passages (2023). Prior to the VMFA, she worked at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, as the Constance E Clayton Curatorial Fellow (2019–21) where she supported the Philadelphia presentation of Senga Nengudi: Topologies (2021). Prior to her time at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Assam worked as the Romare Bearden Graduate Museum Fellow at the Saint Louis Art Museum (2018–19) where she co-curated The Shape of Abstraction: Selections from the Ollie Collection (2019). Assam holds an MA and a BA in art history from Florida State University.
Kenneth Brummel has over 15 years’ experience working at major art museums in Canada, Aotearoa New Zealand and the United States of America. In 2021–22, he was co-curator of Picasso: Painting the Blue Period, which in 2022 was named a top 10 international exhibition by The Wall Street Journal and the third-best exhibition in the world by The Washington Post. At Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, he is co-curator of The Robertson Gift: Paths through Modernity. A specialist of 19th and 20th-century international art, Brummel has mounted exhibitions on a range of modern artists, including Vilhelm Hammershøi, Joan Mitchell and Jean Paul Riopelle, Anthony Caro, and Andy Warhol. His collaborative research in the field of technical art history has been covered in major magazines and newspapers such as National Geographic, The New York Times, Smithsonian Magazine and Science. Brummel holds an MA in art history from The University of Chicago.
Image credits: Rosalyn Drexler, No Pictures, 1963, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Arthur and Margaret Glasgow Endowment, 2017 © Rosalyn Drexler. ARS/Copyright Agency, 2025 | Alexis Assam, photo courtesy of Virginia Museum of Fine Arts | Kenneth Brummel