Misa Jeffereis

Misa Jeffereis is Public Programs & Research Coordinator at Independent Curators International, and co-director of Pirate Press, a quarterly hybrid zine/artist book publication which she co-founded with Christopher Rivera in 2011. She is also a research assistant for New York City-based curators and writers Fionn Meade and Richard Birkett. From 2007-10 Misa was Curatorial Associate at the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle, where she curated exhibitions on Jeppe Hein, Milton Rogovin, and Chiho Aoshima. In 2011 she worked for Frieze Art Fair, New York and E|AB Fair, and interned at SculptureCenter and International Center of Photography. In December 2010 she co-curated an exhibition at The Artist’s Institute. She has two essays published in the exhibition catalogue, Notations: The Cage Effect Today (2011), and was a regular contributor to SculptureCenter’s curatorial blog. Misa is a Master’s candidate in Art History at Hunter College.