Emily Pethick

Emily Pethick is an independent curator based in Amsterdam. She has been the director of the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam (2018-2025), of The Showroom, London (2008–2018), and Casco, Office for Art, Design and Theory, in Utrecht (2005-2008) and curator at Cubitt, London (2003-2004). She has edited Oscar Murillo’s book Social Cataracts, with Sarah Demeuse (Bom Dia, 2026), as well as mongraphs by Wendelien van Oldenborgh, Ricardo Basbaum, Dave Hullfish Bailey and The Otolith Group, and co-edited readers Cluster: Dialectionary (2014), Circular Facts (2011), Casco Issues X and X1(all Sternberg Press).