Jil Weinstock is an artistic director, contemporary arts curator and practicing artist with over fifteen years of experience in executive museum administration and arts education with a focus on art, craft, design, and new media in contemporary culture. The focus of this work has been primarily institutional, in the context of museums, nonprofits, universities,galleries and site-specific public spaces. In these contexts Weinstock has shaped and directed exhibitions, educational programming, performance and site-specific installation in collaboration with emerging and established artists for diverse audiences of all ages. Weinstock has led and advanced institutional priorities related to strategic planning, collections management, programming and outreach at an executive level. This work is informed by her work as a practicing artist, working in photography, sculpture and installation.She is currently the Executive Director of Baxter St. Camera Club of New York. Weinstock was born in Los Angeles and received a joint MFA from the University of California Berkeley and San Francisco Art Institute in 1995. Her work has been exhibited at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art; Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College; PS MoMA 1; Artist Space NYC; The University of Alabama Sarah Moody Gallery; Headlands Center for the Arts; San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art; Salina Art Center, KS; Olin Museum at Kenyon College, OH; Perimeter Editions, London; Fashion Institute of Technology, NY; Hunterdon Museum of Art, NJ; Avram Gallery at Southampton College, Long Island; Orari Galleria, Milan, Italy; Berlin Cultural Arts Center, Germany; The Cultural Arts Center, Vienna, Austria. Weinstock has participated in a residency at the American Academy in Rome and was an Artist-in-Residence at the Museum of Art and Design in New York. Previous press includes writings in the New York Times; The New Yorker; ARTnews; Art in America; The Huffington Post; New York Magazine among others. Weinstock is the recipient of a McGarth Grant and the Walter Gropius Award. Weinstock is represented by Winston Wachter Gallery in New York City and the Walter Maciel Gallery in Los Angeles.