Isolde Brielmaier is the Deputy Director of the New Museum as well as Guest Curator at the International Center for Photography (ICP) in NYC.
Previously, Isolde served for six years as Executive Director and Curator of Arts, Culture & Community at Westfield World Trade Center, a role in which she developed large scale public artist projects and installations, cultural events, strategic and community partnerships across the organization. Isolde is also Associate Professor of Critical Studies in Tisch's Department of Photography, Imaging and Emerging Media at New York University. She serves as Editor at Large at Air Mail, Graydon Carter’s new media venture along with several other art journals and speaks regularly on topics related to art, culture and social impact.
Throughout her curatorial career, Isolde has collaborated with noted contemporary artists including Carrie Mae Weems, Ellen Gallagher, Leonardo Drew, Richard Mosse, Ivan Navarro, Wangechi Mutu, Bill Viola, Hugo McCloud, Fred Wilson, Tyler Mitchell, and Bharti Kher, to name a few. She has written extensively on contemporary art and culture, including several exhibition catalogues, journal articles as well as artist monographs. Her most recent book, I am Sparkling, was released in June 2022. Her anthology, Culture as Catalyst was released in Fall 2020. Isolde has developed and contributed to contemporary art and culture programs and platforms for a broad range of organizations including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Peninsula Hotel Group, Valentino, LifeWater, COACH, Richard Meier Architects | SDS Procida, Versace, Moet Hennessy USA, Wilfredo Rosado, Gucci, New York magazine, the Prospect New Orleans biennial as well as the Armory Show/VOLTA NY, CIRCA, Puerto Rico, and ARCO Contemporary Art Fair in Madrid, Spain, among others.
Isolde has been profiled and featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Elle, Vogue, Modern Luxury, WNYC Radio, CNN, NPR, Good Morning America, the Washington Post, Galerie Magazine, Cultured, and Whitewall among others.
Previously, Isolde has worked for the Guggenheim Museum, the Bronx Museum of Art, and as Chief Curator for the SCAD Museum of Art. She is deeply committed to the promotion of social justice and human rights, specifically global women’s issues and criminal justice reform and serves on the board of the Women’s Prison Association (WPA), the sustainable brand Another Tomorrow, as well as an advisor to Malaika, an all-girls school in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Isolde holds a PhD from Columbia University and lives in New York City.
