Storm King Art Center in New York’s Hudson Valley has filled its senior curatorial vacancy after over a year and half. First reported by Artnet, Anne Reeve will lead the sculpture park’s curatorial program as senior curator from November 1.
Reeve is no stranger to sculpture. She heads to Storm King from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., where she has worked since 2018 as associate curator and now curator, overseeing the modern and contemporary sculpture collection. She started her curatorial career at Glenstone, a private contemporary art museum in Potomac, Maryland, which also boasts a significant outdoor sculpture collection across its large campus. Reeve will trade in the Hirshhorn’s 1.3 acre sculpture garden for 500 acres of open-air museum when she joins Storm King later this year.
Reeve said in a statement, “I’ve long appreciated Storm King as an incubator for serious sculptural thinking. I’m drawn to the chance to work curatorially in a different kind of setting—where scale and landscape open up new possibilities for sculpture and for the artists who make it. I look forward to being in such a singular place, working alongside a team I already admire.”
Reeve succeeds Nora Lawrence, who now serves as the outdoor museum’s first executive director since her promotion from artistic director and chief curator in January 2025. Lawrence is the first non-family member to lead Storm King since its founding by businessman Ralph E. Ogden in 1960.
“Anne brings deep knowledge and sensitivity to the ways in which artists engage the landscape, and I look forward to working with her as Storm King continues to develop ambitious projects that speak to the issues of our time,” said Lawrence in a statement. “Her work reflects the kind of curiosity and care that are central to Storm King’s mission.”
During her tenure at the Hirshhorn, Reeve co-curated “Lee Ufan: Open Dimension” (2019-2020), the museum’s first single artist outdoor exhibition and Ufan’s largest outdoor installation in the US to date. She also curated “Put It This Way: (Re)Visions of the Hirshhorn Collection” (2022–2023), a major permanent collection exhibition of women and nonbinary artists. She also leads the curatorial program for the renovation of the Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden, which reopens October 31, the day before Reeve takes up her new post.
