Amy Halliday is a curator, educator, writer and arts consultant from South Africa who lives in Baltimore and works across the US, UK and Europe. Her research and curatorial interests include global contemporary art; interdisciplinary and socially-engaged curatorial practice; and object-based inquiry and museum education.
Recent exhibition projects include 'Cat Mazza: Network' (focusing on textiles, technology and women's labor histories, Northeastern University, Boston MA, 2024-2025), 'Slipstream' (monumental painting engaged with environmental issues, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara CA, 2024-2025), 'After Archives' (how three artists are engaging archival practices, content, and forms to examine, unearth, interrogate, and reimagine aspects of African American history and experience, A.P.E. Gallery, Northampton MA, 2023), and 'Infinitude' (interrogating our current and possible relationships with cosmic space beyond neocolonial corporate and national initiatives to colonize Mars and mine asteroids/the Moon, Northeastern University, Boston MA, 2021-2022). In 2023, her edited conversation "Curating Spaces of [un]Learning,’ with artist Helina Metaferia and curator/educator Clare Butcher was published in the Journal of Arts & Communities (vol 14, 9-30).