Curators

Ainsley M. Cameron is the Curator of South Asian Art, Islamic Art, and Antiquities at the Cincinnati Art Museum, where she is responsible for the acquisition, research, and display of the museum’s South Asian, Ancient Middle Eastern, Islamic, and Ancient Mediterranean collections. She has extensive experience in curatorial practice, having previously held positions at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the British Museum, the British Library, and the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto, Canada. She has published, delivered lectures, and organized exhibitions that highlight the arts of South Asia and the Islamic world, exploring both historic and contemporary practices. Recent projects include Women Breaking Boundaries, a two-part, cross-collection exhibition that examined the museum’s engagement with female-identified artists, and Beyond Bollywood: 2000 Years of Dance in Art. Cameron completed her doctorate at the University of Oxford, her MA from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London, and BA at the University of Toronto. She was a Fellow in the Center for Curatorial Leadership’s 2023 class.

Emily Liebert is the Curator of Contemporary Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Since joining the museum in 2017, she has curated and co-curated exhibitions by Nicole Eisenman, Liu Wei, Kerry James Marshall, Julie Mehretu, Raúl de Nieves, Emeka Ogboh, and Laura Owens, as well as the group exhibition Picturing Motherhood Now. Liebert has expanded the CMA’s contemporary collection through acquisitions of work by a diverse and global range of artists, many of which are featured in the current installation of the CMA’s contemporary galleries, which she led in 2021. Before the CMA, Liebert had positions at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas. Liebert’s art criticism has appeared in Artforum and Frieze. She holds a BA from Yale University and a PhD from Columbia University. She was a Fellow in the Center for Curatorial Leadership’s 2023 class.