Irene Hofmann is the Phillips Director and Chief Curator of SITE Santa Fe, a position she has held since 2010. In her role at SITE she has expanded the breadth and reach of SITE’s exhibition program including reshaping SITE’s signature biennial exhibition with a focus on contemporary art from the Americas. She recently oversaw a $12million capital campaign to expand SITE’s facility with an award winning new building designed by SHoP Architects that opened in 2017.

Over the last two decades she has curated or co-curated group exhibitions that include: Broadcast (2009-10), Agitated Histories (2011), Unsettled Landscapes (2014), and Future Shock (2017) and solo exhibitions by artists including Dawoud Bey, Kota Ezawa, Joseph Grigely, Futurefarmers, Mungo Thomson, Enrique Martinez Celaya, Jason Dodge, Marjetica Potrč, Jacob Hashimoto, Michael Rakowitz, Fabrice Gygi, and Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle. She is currently working on a retrospective of the work of Regina Silviera and a large-scale exhibition devoted to artistic responses to the global refugee crisis.

She has held positions at the Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, the Orange County Museum of Art, Cranbrook Art Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Walker Art Center, and the New Museum of Contemporary Art. She holds a BA in Art History from Washington University in St. Louis, and a MA in Modern Art History, Theory, and Criticism from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.