Jennifer McCabe

Jennifer McCabe, PhD, is a curator, educator, and museum director with nearly 20 years’ experience. Currently she is director and chief curator of the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (Scottsdale, AZ), named Best Museum by the Phoenix New Times in 2022. Her curatorial practice and writing explores intersectional feminisms, site-responsive commissions, and artist interventions that recently include a major exhibition, Counter-Landscapes: Performative Actions from 1970s-Now, that presented key works made over fifty years illuminating how the strategies created by women artists in the 1970s and 1980s are employed by artists today and featured new commissions by Angela Ellsworth, Ana Teresa Fernandez, Maria Hupfield, Saskia Jordá, and Antonia Wright; a survey of video over twenty years, Now Playing: Video 1999-2019, featuring Candice Breitz, Christian Marclay, Shirin Neshat, and Diana Thater, among others; and the first ever joint exhibition of the Mexico City-based couple, Double Agents: Carla Fernández and Pedro Reyes. Previously McCabe served as director and chief curator at the Museum of Craft and Folk Art in San Francisco, where she revitalized the museum through a vibrant artist-centered program, including projects with Clare Rojas, Harrell Fletcher, and a collaboration with Etsy.