Alexis Assam is the Regenia A. Perry Assistant Curator of Global Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, where she is co-curating the forthcoming exhibition Pop to Present: American Art from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Assam joined the museum in late 2021 and organized the Richmond presentation of the traveling survey exhibition Whitfield Lovell: Passages (2023). Assam has served as a juror for The Southeastern College Art Conference Annual Juried Exhibition (2023), and the Trawick Prize (2022). Prior to the VMFA, she worked at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, as the Constance E. Clayton Curatorial Fellow (2019-2021) where she supported Contemporary permanent collection rotations, acquisitions, commissions, and exhibitions including the Philadelphia presentation of Senga Nengudi: Topologies (2021), and she organized the installation of Museum Highlights: A Gallery Talk by Andrea Fraser (2021). Prior to her time at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Assam worked as the Romare Bearden Graduate Museum Fellow at the Saint Louis Art Museum (2018-2019), where she co-curated The Shape of Abstraction: Selections from the Ollie Collection (2019). Assam holds both an MA in Art History a BA in Art History with Honors from Florida State University.