Misa Jeffereis

Misa Jeffereis is Associate Curator at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, where she is organizing a forthcoming exhibition by Justin Favela. She curated Mona Chalabi: Squeeze (2022), Alia Farid: At the Time of the Ebb (2022), and the Great Rivers Biennial (2020), featuring Kahlil Robert Irving, Tim Portlock, and Rachel Youn; co-curated Shara Hughes: On Edge (2021); and has programmed CAM’s Street Views outdoor video projection series with exhibitions by Jonathas de Andrade, Oliver Laric, Jennifer West, and Marina Zurkow. Prior to CAM, Jeffereis was Curatorial Associate at the Walker Art Center. Jeffereis has served on juries for apexart, Association of Art Museum Curators, Bemis Center for the Arts, Center for Maine Contemporary Art Biennial, Harpo Foundation, Socrates Sculpture Park, the South Bend Museum of Art Biennial, and Springfield Art Museum. In 2021-22 she participated in the Association of Art Museum Curators Mentorship Program. She is on the board of Gallery 210 at University of Missouri at St. Louis, and the board of Midwest Artist Project Services, an organization that serves and empowers artists, collectives, and arts organizations in the Midwest. Jeffereis holds a Masters in Art History from Hunter College in New York.