Eileen Jeng Lynch
Director of Curatorial Projects
- Organisation
- The Bronx Museum
- Biography
- Eileen Jeng Lynch is The Bronx Museum’s Director of Curatorial Programs who stewards the Museum’s curatorial initiatives and exhibition schedule with an eye toward expanding its presence in The Bronx and beyond. Jeng Lynch made her curatorial debut at The Bronx Museum with Abigail DeVille: Bronx Heavens, the artist’s first museum survey. Abigail DeVille: In the Fullness of Time, a continuation of that survey, opened at Bowdoin College Museum of Art in June 2024. Jeng Lynch also curated Bronx Calling: The Sixth AIM Biennial, an exhibition showcasing work by artists who completed The Bronx Museum's flagship AIM Fellowship, a career accelerator program designed to give promising artists the knowledge and skills to sustain a successful practice. Previously, Jeng Lynch was the Senior Curator of Visual Arts at Wave Hill, also in The Bronx, where she organized exhibitions and programs, commissioned artists for site-specific projects, and managed the residency and emerging artists programs. Jeng Lynch has held positions at RxArt, Sperone Westwater, and The Art Institute of Chicago in the Department of Contemporary Art. She has been a guest curator at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz, The Yard: City Hall Park, Trestle Gallery, Sperone Westwater, Lesley Heller Workspace, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, Garis & Hahn, and Radiator Gallery, among others. As the founder of Neumeraki, Jeng Lynch has launched national and global community-based curatorial initiatives. Jeng Lynch received her MA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and BA from Syracuse University.
Speaker on
Mid-Market Artists and their Legacy
Session
05/21/2026
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14:45 - 15:30