Jaynelle Hazard is the Director and Chief Curator of Georgetown University Art Galleries and an Associate Professor of the Practice in the Department of Art and Art History. Her career has been dedicated to amplifying diverse voices within the canon, presenting work by pioneering artists, and bringing audiences together for discovery.
Recent curatorial projects include Quantum Shift, an exhibition featuring international Latinx light and space artist Gisela Colón, which included an in-gallery show and an outdoor public sculpture in Washington, DC’s James Monroe Park. Hazard also curated What Makes the Earth Shake, presenting the work of fast-rising Black figurative painter Dominic Chambers, a Yale MFA graduate and Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree recognized as one of the most exciting emerging artists of his generation. Additionally, she curated SEED and SOLSTICE, two concurrent exhibitions at Tephra Institute of Contemporary Art and The Kreeger Museum, which presented the innovative work of sculptor and microbiologist Kendall Buster.
Before joining Georgetown, Hazard was the Executive Director and Chief Curator at Tephra Institute of Contemporary Art (Tephra ICA), where she led a significant rebranding effort and expanded the institution’s reach, impact, and strategic initiatives. She was previously the Director of Exhibitions at Workhouse Arts Center and worked with celebrated artworks during her time supporting the corporate contemporary art collection at UBS and at Blank Projects gallery in Cape Town, South Africa.
Hazard has been invested in arts education, collaborating with various universities and supporting emerging arts leaders through her career positions and in roles with ArtTable and the Sotheby’s Institute of Art Alumni DC Chapter. In 2019, she served as Cochair for State of Art 5 / DC: A Conversation, a conference in partnership with the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Hazard holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Virginia Commonwealth University and a Master of Arts from Sotheby’s Institute of Art in New York.
Academic Appointment(s)
- Primary
- Associate Professor of the Practice, College - Department of Art & Art History