Grace Deveney

Grace Deveney is the David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg Associate Curator of Photography and Media at the Art Institute of Chicago. Recent exhibitions include Kwame Brathwaite: Things Well Worth Waiting For (2023). She was Associate Curator of Prospect.5: Yesterday we said tomorrow, a New Orleans-based contemporary art triennial (2021). Previously, she was Assistant Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, where she organized numerous exhibitions including Christina Quarles (2021), Direct Message: Art, Language, and Power (2019), and presentations of the work of Paul Pfeiffer and Amanda Williams (both 2017). She holds a Ph.D. in Art History from Northwestern University.