About

Aubree Penney is a curator, artist, and writer at the intersection of public art, history, and justice. Her practice is shaped by disability and chronic illness, foregrounding access, care, and alternative modes of interpretation. She is Associate Curator at Monument Lab. Her work includes programming for the Smithsonian American Art Museum, assistant curating an exhibition on the National Mall, co-leading institutional engagements with the American Museum of Natural History, and producing an exhibition at Enclave composed entirely through image description.

She holds an MFA in Curatorial Practice from Goldsmiths, University of London, and has worked with Tate Modern and the Yinka Shonibare Studio.

Pronouns: she/her

CV

Education

MFA with a distinction in Curating
Goldsmiths College, University of London | 2018

BA in English and Religion | Phi Beta Kappa, High Honors in Religion, Honors in English
Haverford College | 2013

Institutional Work

Monument Lab
Associate Curator 2025-present
Senior Project Manager and Curatorial Associate 2023-2025
Assistant to the Director and Curatorial Associate 2022-2023
Philadelphia, PA

Shonibare Studios
Independent Contractor for Libraries 2021-present
London

Tate Modern
Independent Contractor 2019-2021
Curating Intern, African Art 2017
London

Philadelphia Museum of Art
Museum Studies Internship Program 2013
Philadelphia, PA

Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery
Co-Manager 2011-13 | Gallery Assistant 2010-2011
Haverford, PA

Curatorial Projects

Let Us Love You as You Are (virtual exhibition event)
Online with the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery | 2020

An Alarming Specificity (exhibition)
Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery | Haverford, PA | 2020

Negative Space (exhibition)
Crosstown Arts | Memphis, TN | 2020

ReFORMed (workshop and exhibition)
EnclaveLab | London | 2018

The Long Ongoing Moment (publication)
Online and at Crossbones Garden | London | 2018

Outside (exhibition)
Crossbones Garden | London | 2018

a speech showed the chair in the middle (workshop and exhibition)
EnclaveLab | London | 2018

Labelled (exhibition)
EnclaveLab | London | 2017

[Un]titled (workshop)
Chisenhale Studios | London | 2017

Group Shows as Artist

Flow Space
Online | 2020

Residencies and Awards

Flow Space
Online | 2020

Dimensions Art Center
Chongqing | Postponed due to COVID-19

Crosstown Arts Residency
Memphis, TN | 2019

Lewisham Borough of Culture Bid Inclusion
London | 2017

Publications

“Waiting for Water” in Flow Tales, edited by Ebru Bingöl, Vincenzo Meoli, and Erinc Ulusoy
E-book | 2021

“Planets should never zoom towards you” in After Decameron, edited by Riet Timmerman
Open Space | 2021

Presentations and Webinars

“We Want a Sick Museum” as part of Call You in the Morning with Riet Timmerman
Annual Conference of the Association of Academic Museums and Galleries | Online | 2021

“How to Write an Abstract When Your Hands are on Fire”
Annual Conference of the College Art Association | Online | February 2021