IN CONVERSATION: Gi (Ginny) Huo and Jess Wilcox

77 Franklin Street March 28, 2026 
Overview
77 Franklin Street 2pm
We are delighted to celebrate Gi (Ginny) Huo's solo exhibition "spinnerets" with the next iteration of our "In Conversation" series, featuring the artist and independent curator Jess Wilcox on Saturday, March 28th at 2pm.
 
Gi (Ginny) Huo is an artist and educator thinking on the intentions of what people believe, the legacies of religious systems and its geopolitical impact. Huo works across mediums in sculpture, video, artists books, drawing, photography, and printmaking and has exhibited in places such as DOOSAN Gallery in Seoul, SK Gallery, Princeton University, CANADA Gallery, The Drawing Center, Socrates Sculpture Park, Baxter St CCNY, Franconia Sculpture Park and The Smithsonian Archives of American Art. In the past decade, Huo has created and facilitated programs for the Education and Public Programs departments at The Studio Museum in Harlem, The New Museum of Contemporary and has been a Lecturer at Parsons, School of Design, CUNY College of Staten Island, and Princeton University. Huo has participated in residencies and fellowships such as Here and There THAT Residency, Center for Photography -Woodstock, Robert Blackburn Printshop SIP Fellowship, Smack Mellon, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and Princeton Arts Fellowship.
 
Jess Wilcox is an independent curator with a focus on sculpture, ecocritical, and public art.  She is a member of the River Valley Arts Collective, which organizes shows by Hudson-Valley based artists. Recently, Wilcox curated Scott Burton: Shape Shift, the first U.S. museum of the artist’s work since his death in 1989 presented at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, MO (2024) and Wrightwood 659, Chicago, IL, (2025).  From 2016 to 2022, she was Curator and Director of Exhibitions at Socrates Sculpture Park, where she curated dozens of exhibitions including Maren Hassinger: Steel Bodies, Hélio Oiticica Subterranean Tropicália Projects: PN15, Sink or Swim: Climate Futures, Guadalupe Maravilla: Planeta AbuelxMONUMENTS NOWVirginia Overton: Built; Nari Ward: G.O.A.T., again, among others. She has a BA from Barnard College and a Master’s degree from Bard’s Center for Curatorial Studies.