JUROR: Kelly Long is an art worker and writer currently serving as Senior Curatorial Assistant at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, where she has worked with the Photography Acquisitions Committee since 2017), developed exhibitions across mediums, including Rachel Harrison Life Hack (2019), Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith (2023, and a forthcoming exhibition focused on surrealism and the 1960’s. Most recently, she curated Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe and the Last Gullah Islands (2024), and Trust Me (2023), a group exhibition exploring the role that vulnerability plays in forging connection, and the overlapping lives and loves of photography’s creators, viewers, and caretakers. Previously, she has held curatorial and teaching positions at the George Eastman Museum and at the University of Rochester. Her writing has appeared in the catalogues for Chiharu Shiota: The Hand Lines and Gail Thacker: Fugitive Moments, and in publications such as InVisible Culture and MOSSFLOWER. She holds a B.A. in art history from Vassar College, and an M.A. in visual and cultural studies from the University of Rochester, where her research focused on the engagement of postmodern and contemporary art with housing, exploring notions of being and belonging, access, and ownership in the art of our time.