Trevor Smith, Associate Director – Multisensory Experience, Curator of the Present Tense

Trevor Smith leads PEM's Present Tense initiative, which celebrates the central role that creative expression plays in shaping our world today. This initiative explores ways in which creativity and cultural change emerge at the intersections of cultures, disciplines or technologies. In his capacity as Associate Director of Multisensory Experience, Smith aligns the museum’s curatorial activities with its neuroscience and other initiatives to create experiences that activate the senses and resonate with our communities.

Smith has curated or co-curated Agustina Woodgate: Ballroom; Gu Wenda: United Nations; Shelagh Keeley: Drawn to Place; Alexis Rockman: Shipwrecks; Kimsooja: Archive of Mind; Carlos Garaicoa: Partitura; Strandbeest: The Dream Machines of Theo Jansen; and PlayTime, among others.

Prior to joining PEM in 2008, Smith was curator in residence at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, and Curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City. He was previously based in Australia, where he worked for the Biennale of Sydney, served as Director of the Canberra Contemporary Art Space and was Curator of Contemporary Art at the Art Gallery of Western Australia. He was also co-curator of the 2011 Singapore Biennial. Smith has produced more than 70 exhibitions and has published widely and internationally in exhibition catalogues and journals.

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