Dr. Jennifer Jankauskas

Jankauskas joined AMFA as Curator in 2024 with over 30 years of curatorial expertise. A specialist in contemporary art, her keen eye for art pushes boundaries—whether through unexpected materials, immersive experiences, or pieces that spark conversations about today’s world.

Her first exhibition at AMFA, Minimalism: Color, Line, Form, featured radically abstract works from the AMFA Foundation Collection that highlight the harmonic beauty of simplicity. Jankauskas also curated Nathalie Miebach: Under a Restless Sky, a site-specific installation on view in the Art Perch through 2027.

In her past role as Curator of Art at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA), she significantly expanded the contemporary art collection and earned recognition for her innovative exhibitions including BOUNDLESS (2022) and Bethany Collins: My destiny is in your hands (2021), and the traveling exhibitions, About Face: Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture (2019) and Once and Again: Still Lifes by Beth Lipman (2015). Jankauskas was also a leader in developing the MMFA’s new John and Joyce Caddell Sculpture Garden, collaborating with artists Deborah Butterfield, Patrick Dougherty, Jun Kaneko, and Bayeté Ross Smith, among others.

Prior to that, Jankauskas held curatorial positions at prestigious institutions, including the Art Institute of Chicago, The John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Artpace, and the American Federation of the Arts. She received a Doctor of Philosophy in Museum Studies from the University of Leicester, a Master of Arts in Art History, Theory, and Criticism from the Art Institute of Chicago, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Ohio University.

She has contributed essays to numerous exhibition catalogues, online and print art journals, and to the publications Museum Collecting Lessons: Acquisition Stories Told from the Inside (Routledge, 2022) and Dimensions of Curation: Considering Competing Values for Intentional Exhibition Practices (Rowman and Littlefield, 2023).