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Grace Deveney

Color portrait of a woman smiling in front of a textured, pale green wall with leafy vines hanging overhead. She has long black hair styled in braids and wears a short-sleeved, ribbed shirt with vertical stripes in pink, red, blue, yellow, and orange. Sunlight filters through the leaves, casting soft dappled shadows across her shirt and shoulder. She faces the camera directly with a relaxed, open expression.

Grace Deveney is the David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg Associate Curator of Photography and Media at the Art Institute of Chicago, where she curated the exhibitions Kameelah Janan Rasheed: Unsewn Time (2023), Peter Hujar: Performance and Portraiture (2023), and Kwame Brathwaite: Things Well Worth Waiting For (2023). From 2019 to 2021 she was associate curator of Prospect.5, the fifth edition of the New Orleans triennial. Previously, she was an assistant curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, where she organized Christina Quarles (2021) and Direct Message: Art, Language, and Power (2019), among numerous other exhibitions.

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