Anthony Elms
Artist in Residence, February 2022

Anthony Elms, a curator and writer, was the Daniel and Brett Sundheim Chief Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania (2015-21).  For ICA, Elms organized the exhibitions Milford Graves: The Mind-Body Deal with Mark Christman (2020), Karyn Olivier:  Everything That's Alive Moves (2020), Cauleen Smith: Give It or Leave It (2018), Endless Shout (2016-7), Rodney McMillian: The Black Show (2016), Christopher Knowles: In a Word with writer Hilton Als (2015), White Petals Surround Your Yellow Heart (2013), and coordinated several other exhibitions and projects. He has independently curated many exhibitions, including the Whitney Biennial 2014 and his writings have appeared in many catalogs and edited collections, as well as various periodicals.

While at the Lab, Anthony further cultivated his long-standing interest in using archival material as fuel for future creative work. For the time being, he's deep within the papers of musician, composer, producer and artist Arto Lindsay.

Portrait photo: Marcus Maddox