Hesse McGraw
Chief Curator
Hesse McGraw is the Chief Curator of exhibitions and projects and oversees our three main gallery spaces and underground gallery. He collaborates closely with artists, works with the Bemis Center staff and program directors to develop multi-disciplinary public events, and writes all exhibitions-related texts.
Hesse McGraw is a curator, writer and artist. Prior to joining the Bemis Center, he worked as the assistant director of Max Protetch gallery in New York City. He was the founding director of Paragraph, a contemporary art gallery operating under the non-profit Urban Culture Project in downtown Kansas City, MO, where he also served as senior editor of Review magazine.
Alongside producing two dozens exhibits over three years at Paragraph, he has curated exhibitions for FLEX Self Storage (Topeka, Kansas), The New Genres Festival (Tulsa), The Stray Show (Chicago), Guild and Greyskhul (NYC), -scopeMiami, RARE (NYC), Rocket Gallery (London) and White Flag Projects (St. Louis). His writing is frequently published internationally in catalogue essays and magazines.
For more information about the Bemis Center's exhibition program, contact Hesse McGraw at 402.341.7130 x13 or at hesse(at)bemiscenter.org.
