The Judd Foundation has named Alexandra Cunningham Cameron as director of design, a newly created role. She will begin in the position on April 27.
As director of design, Cameron will oversee the nonprofit foundation’s Donald Judd Furniture LLC, a company established to fabricate Donald Judd’s furniture designs to his original specifications. Currently, Judd Furniture produces more than 70 designs, which are available for custom order.
According to a press release, Cameron will guide Judd Furniture’s “product development, operations, and strategic growth,” while also leading “design initiatives that situate Judd’s work within cultural and design conversations with a focus on Judd’s writings and papers.”
Cameron is currently a curator of contemporary design at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York. At the museum, where she is also its first Hintz Secretarial Scholar, she has organized exhibitions like 2020’s “Willi Smith: Street Couture” on the Black American fashion designer, as well as “Making Home—Smithsonian Design Triennial” (2024–25), which took over the entire museum and featured artists like CFGNY, Hugh Hayden, Joiri Minaya, Sofía Gallisá Muriente, and Amie Siegel.
She also worked with fashion designer Duro Olowu on his 2022 “Selects” exhibition, drawing from the museum’s permanent collection. Among the acquisitions at Cooper Hewitt that she has spearheaded are Tschabalala Self, Dondi White, Amanda Williams, Martha Goddard, and Tobias Wong. She is currently at work on an exhibition of Wong for late 2027 that will feature many of the more 50 major works donated by the late designer’s family.
Prior to working at Cooper Hewitt in 2018, she started her career at the Design Miami fair in 2007. She was promoted to its creative director in 2012.
“Alexandra brings knowledge and experience to a small organization that does very big things,” Flavin Judd, the foundation’s artistic director told WWD. “We are excited to bring more of Don’s furniture to the world. This will include initiatives and collaborations in the coming years.”
