Jacob Proctor is the Gilbert and Ann Kinney New York Collector at the Smithsonian Institution’s Archives of American Art, where he is primarily responsible for new acquisitions from the New York area. He also conducts interviews for the Archives’ long-running oral history program and organizes exhibitions and public programs relating to the Archives’ collections. Prior to joining AAA, Proctor was a curator at the Museum Brandhorst in Munich, founding curator of the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society at the University of Chicago, curator at the Aspen Art Museum, and associate curator of modern and contemporary art at the University of Michigan Museum of Art. From 2014 to 2017, Proctor served as one of two external curators who advised on the selection of artists and projects for the “Frame,” “Focus,” and “Live” sections of the Frieze Art Fair in both London and New York. Proctor has organized more than forty exhibitions, including, most recently, major surveys of Alex Katz and Lucy McKenzie, and his critical and art historical writing appears in numerous exhibition catalogues, monographs, and periodicals.