Jennifer McGregor (curator)

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Jennifer McGregor is an American curator and arts planner. Based in New York, she is the Director of Arts and senior curator at Wave Hill, a public garden and cultural center in the Bronx, New York City. [1] There she curates exhibitions and oversees performances that relate to nature, culture and site. [2] Recent projects include an immersive outdoor installation by Chris Doyle, The Lightening – A Project for Wave Hill's Aquatic Garden [3] and the exhibition Field Notes featuring projects by Matthew Friday, David McQueen and Michelle Stuart. [4] McGregor started working in the field as the first director of the New York City's Percent for Art Program between 1983 and 1990. [5] She has served as a consultant on many public art and policy projects including a public art plan for the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway in Boston, Massachusetts, in 2012; a public art plan for Laramie, Wyoming, in 2015, [6] and project management for New York City's Flight 587 Memorial in 2006; managed the commissioned artwork by Daniel Hauben for the New Instructional Building at the Bronx Community College, and more.

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