Gallery Talk | KAWS: FAMILY
Meet Alejo Benedetti, curator of contemporary art, to learn about Crystal Bridges’ newest exhibition, KAWS: FAMILY.
This talk will give you a behind-the-scenes look at the new exhibition, let you get to know the people behind the experiences at your museum, and offer unique insights into several works in the exhibition.
Free with purchase of exhibition ticket.
Get tickets to the exhibition online or by calling Guest Experience at (479) 657-2335 today.
KAWS: FAMILY is organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario and curated by Julian Cox, Deputy Director & Chief Curator, Art Gallery of Ontario. The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art presentation is curated by Alejo Benedetti.
About the Speaker
Alejo Benedetti is Curator, Contemporary Art at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. In his role, he oversees the Contemporary Art Galleries and the outdoor sculpture program at Crystal Bridges and the Momentary. He is the curator of Annie Leibovitz at Work, an exhibition that places new photographs by the photographer in conversation with iconic works from across her storied career, which opened fall of 2023 and will travel to four additional venues. He is also the curator for Listening Forest by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, a mid-career retrospective of outdoor sculptures on view in Crystal Bridges’ North Forest through the end of 2023.
In 2020, he co-curated State of the Art 2020, bringing together 61 contemporary artists from across the United States in an exhibition that opened at Crystal Bridges and the Momentary. Benedetti also organized the 2019 exhibition, Men of Steel, Women of Wonder, which looked at art-world responses to Superman and Wonder Woman and traveled to multiple venues around the US.
He is originally from Texas and earned his master’s degree in art history from Texas Christian University in Fort Worth and his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Missouri, Columbia.
