Alison Hearst

Alison Hearst is a curator, author, art historian, and museum leader specializing in art since the 1960s, with particular expertise in time-based media, digital art, and post-conceptual practices. She serves as Curator at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, where she has organized exhibitions including Alex Da Corte: The Whale (2025), I'll Be Your Mirror: Art and the Digital Screen (2023), Robyn O'Neil: WE, THE MASSES (2019), and Donald Sultan: The Disaster Paintings (2016). She has also served as organizing curator for major traveling exhibitions, including Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Memory Map (2023), Mark Bradford: End Papers (2020), and Doug Aitken: Electric Earth (2017). From 2015 to 2022, she led the museum's acclaimed FOCUS exhibition series, organizing solo exhibitions by artists including Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Jamal Cyrus, Thomas Demand, Mario García Torres, Joyce Pensato, Wael Shawky, Lorna Simpson, Frances Stark, and Stanley Whitney. She is editor and contributing author of the catalogues Alex Da Corte: The Whale, I'll Be Your Mirror, and Donald Sultan: The Disaster Paintings, and has contributed to publications including Tom Anholt, Katherine Bernhardt: Swatches, Urban Theater: New York Art in the 1980s, México Inside Out: Themes in Art Since 1990, and Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth Collection Highlights, among others. She regularly lectures and serves on grant panels, juries, and peer-review committees. She is also an editorial advisor to imagine/otherwise, a book series published by Sternberg Press.