The Pratt Institute’s Julia van den Hout has been appointed Architecture Curator and Program Director of upstate New York sculpture center Art Omi.

A dual SVA and NYU alumna, van den Hout is the founder of Orginal Copy and also the co-founder and editor of CLOG, an active online forum with 13 published digital issues. She had previously served as Press Director at Steven Holl Architects until 2014 and has been a visiting professor at Pratt since 2019.

At Omi, van den Hout will be responsible for the curation of the Sculpture & Architecture Park and indoor exhibitions program in addition to overseeing the institution’s two-week Art Omi: Architecture Residency program, which is still currently accepting applications for the upcoming Summer 2022 cycle. (van den Hout had previously curated exhibitions at Omi, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Center for Architecture/AIANY). 

“I’m delighted to join Art Omi, an institution that champions architecture alongside other creative disciplines,” she said. "I look forward to collaborating with the Art Omi team and its community of architects, artists and residents to promote creative and critical exchange, and to develop Art Omi: Architecture as a platform for engaging with contemporary issues and ideas in a way that lets the outside in.”