James Voorhies

James Voorhies
James Voorhies is a curator, arts administrator, and writer based in the Hudson Valley whose work focuses on exhibitions, commissions, and institutional strategy in contemporary art. He most recently served as Curator at Large at The Bass, where he organized exhibitions, large-scale commissions, and publications while strengthening donor engagement. Previously, he was Executive Director of the Tony Smith Foundation, overseeing the Tony Smith Catalogue Raisonné with The MIT Press. He was also the inaugural John R. and Barbara Robinson Family Director of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University. Voorhies holds a PhD in Modern and Contemporary Art History from The Ohio State University and is the author of Postsensual Aesthetics and Beyond Objecthood, both published by The MIT Press.