SAINT LOUIS, MO.- Lisa Melandri, executive director of the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (CAM), announces today that CAM Associate Curator Kelly Shindler has been appointed Senior Specialist for Exhibitions and Public Interpretation at The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage in Philadelphia, beginning September 2016. “We are incredibly thrilled for Kelly,” says Melandri. “This position at the Pew Center is a perfect fit for her talents, and we are delighted for her as she joins this distinguished grantmaker.”

Shindler has served as associate curator at CAM since 2011. She has organized over thirty shows for the Museum, including solo exhibitions by Rosa Barba, Geta Brătescu, Kevin Jerome Everson, Josh Faught, Sheila Hicks, Tala Madani, Anthony McCall, Takeshi Murata, Lari Pittman, The Propeller Group, Arlene Shechet, and Mika Taanila. She is the curator of the major mid-career survey, Dear Nemesis, Nicole Eisenman 1993–2013, which traveled from CAM to the Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia (2014) and the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (2015) and was awarded Best Monographic Museum Show, Nationally (second place) by the AICA/USA. Shindler has authored five books and written for several others while at CAM.

“It has been a tremendous honor to have contributed to CAM’s exhibition and publication program over the past five years,” says Shindler. “I am proud of what we have accomplished—from bringing the work of some of the most exciting and salient artists working today to St. Louis to sharing the incredible talents of the St. Louis art community with the world. It brings me great joy to have furthered CAM’s status as one of the preeminent kunsthalles in the United States.”

Prior to joining CAM, Shindler was an independent curator, organizing such exhibitions as Chicago-Scope: The Films of Tom Palazzolo 1967–1976 at the Art Institute of Chicago, and others for art spaces and festivals worldwide. From 2003 to 2011, Shindler worked at Art21, producer of the PBS documentary series Art:21—Art in the Twenty-First Century. She holds master’s degrees in Art History, Theory, and Criticism and Arts Administration and Policy from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

At The Pew Center for Art & Heritage, Shindler will play an integral role in program development, grants administration, and constituent capacity-building.