Chrissie Iles is the Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Her curatorial focus is contemporary art, film and video, and art of the 1960s and 1970s, from a global perspective. Her exhibitions at the Whitney include co-curating three Whitney Biennials in 2004, 2006, and the 2024 Biennial Even Better Than the Real Thing. Other exhibitions include ‘Sharon Hayes: There’s So Much I Want to Tell You’, ‘Into the Light: The Projected Image in American Art 1964-1977’, ‘Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art 1905-2016’ and ‘Cauleen Smith: Sojourner’. Previously Chrissie was Head of Exhibitions at Modern Art Oxford, where her exhibitions included surveys of Louise Bourgeois and Donald Judd, and the thematic exhibition ‘Signs of the Times: Film, Video and Slide Installation in Britain in the 1980s’. She is a member of the Graduate Committee of the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, has been an external examiner for Columbia University, Oxford University, and the Royal College of Art and Goldsmiths College, London. She teaches regularly at Columbia University in the Fine Art Department. She was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Art History by Bristol University, U.K. in 2015.