Sara Reisman is a curator, educator, and writer whose work focuses on socially engaged art, the history of exhibition making, and the intersections between art and social change. Reisman has held leadership roles, including Chief Curator at the National Academy of Design (2021–2025), Executive and Artistic Director of the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation (2014–2021), and Director of New York City’s Percent for Art Program (2008–2014). She has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, the State University of New York - Purchase College, and, since 2016, at the School of Visual Arts’ Curatorial Practice MA Program. Recent exhibitions in 2026 include The Useful Life of Objects (Materials for the Arts, NYC), Rumor de la Tierra (Q Galería, Quito, Ecuador), When Thoughts Are Free (601Artspace, NYC), and Stephen Antonakos: Vectors of Time and Space (B&M Theocharakis Foundation, Athens, Greece).