Brooke Kamin Rapaport

Since 2013, Brooke Kamin Rapaport has been responsible for the Conservancy’s program of commissioned public art by contemporary artists.  While at MSPC, she served as Commissioner and Curator of the United States Pavilion at the Venice Biennale with the exhibition Martin Puryear: Liberty / Libertà (2019). The exhibition marked the first time in the history of the Venice Biennale that the U.S. Pavilion was organized by an institution whose visual art program focused exclusively on public art. Rapaport was a curator in the contemporary art department at the Brooklyn Museum and a guest curator at The Jewish Museum. She has published and lectured extensively on issues surrounding contemporary art and public art. She graduated from Amherst College, and received an MA in art history from Rutgers University.  In 2022, she was awarded an honorary degree from Amherst.