Anne Ellegood
Spotlight Artist in Residence
Fall 2025

Anne Ellegood has been a curator of contemporary art for over twenty-five years and has worked in several major institutions in the United States, including the Hammer Museum, Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden in Washington DC, and the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City. In September 2019, she was appointed the Executive Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (ICA LA) where she oversees the executive, administrative, and artistic direction of the museum. Prior to joining ICA LA, Ellegood was the Senior Curator at the Hammer Museum from 2009-2019, where in addition to organizing exhibitions and building the collection, she oversaw the Hammer Projects series and the Public Engagement program. Her most recent curatorial project was Scratching at the Moon, presented at ICA LA in 2024. Co-curated with artist Anna Sew Hoy, the exhibition featured the work of 13 Asian American artists and was awarded Best Thematic Group show at an American museum by ARTnews. Ellegood received her MA in Curatorial Practice from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College and was a 2020 Fellow at the Center for Curatorial Leadership. In 2020, Ellegood co-founded the Los Angeles Visual Arts Coalition (LAVA Coalition), a coalition of thirty small to mid-size visual arts organization in Los Angeles formed at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic to provide mutual support, share information, create opportunities for professional development, collectively fundraise, and advocate for our sector.