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Jameson Paige is a curator and writer based in Philadelphia and New York. He is interested in contemporary art’s engagement with spatial politics, history, identity, and problems of representation. His practice negotiates the political at an individual and collective level, attending to the modes artists and publics generate new cultural forms. His recent work has manifested as projects in public space, programming initiatives, publications, and exhibitions. Paige is the Curator of Public Practice at Mural Arts Philadelphia where he develops interdisciplinary artist-driven public art projects. He is currently working on New Deals: Artists Envision Infrastructure with artists Maia Chao, Misael Soto, and Alex Strada set to debut in 2027. Previous projects include Emilio Martínez Poppe: Civic Views (2025), Hironaka & Suib: The Philadelphians (2025), Rami George: AND INTO THE STREETS (2023), Aram Han Sifuentes: Messages to Our Neighbors (2022).

As an independent curator Paige has organized exhibitions at the Luminary, St. Louis; the Sullivan Galleries, Chicago; Fjord, Philadelphia; the Charlotte Street Foundation, Kansas City; and as part of BIENALSUR at La Capilla del Arte UDLAP, Puebla, Mexico. His writing has appeared in Hyperallergic, Cultured, Burnaway, and Public Parking, among others.

Paige has presented his work at Bryn Mawr College’s Center for Visual Culture, ASAP/16 Conference: the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present, the College Art Association’s Annual Conference, Northwestern University, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, the Maryland Institute College of Art, among others. Recently, he was a participant in Independent Curators International’s annual Curatorial Forum; a participant in the Curating Engagement Retreat; and a curatorial fellow at the Luminary.