Gee Wesley

Gee Wesley is an arts organizer born in Monrovia, Liberia, and based in New York where he works as a Curatorial Assistant in the Department of Media and Performance at the Museum of Modern Art. Before joining MoMA, Wesley held roles as Program Director at Recess (Brooklyn, NY), Curatorial Fellow at SculptureCenter (Queens, NY), and Curatorial Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary Art (Philadelphia, PA). Wesley has been adjunct faculty at the Maryland Institute College of Art (Baltimore, MD), the Yale School of Art (New Haven, CT), and Bard College (Annandale-on-Hudson, NY). He is a co-founder and board member of Ulises, a nonprofit art bookshop based in Philadelphia, and the founder of Afrophon’ a project dedicated to contemporary African artists’ books, art books, and independent art publishing through public programs, distribution, and an itinerant reading room. His work explores the relationship between publics and publications and how independent arts initiatives incubate new modes of curatorial and artistic practice. Wesley received his M.A. from the Center for Curatorial Studies, at Bard College.