Amber Esseiva is the Senior Curator & Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU. 

Starting as a curatorial assistant, the VCU School of the Arts alum has directed or participated in the curation of roughly 20 exhibitions in the ICA’s first decade, and her work on Dear Mazie – the first contemporary exhibition dedicated to the life and work of architect, educator and artist Amaza Lee Meredith – is now on view at the California African American Museum. Esseiva also created the guest curator program that expands the ICA’s artistic perspectives while offering opportunities to rising curators.