Alexis Assam, Regenia A. Perry Assistant Curator of Global Contemporary Art, joined the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in 2021. She is the Assistant Curator in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art, which is responsible for the museum’s early 20th-century European holdings as well as the mid-to-late 20th-century and 21st-century collections. She is co-curator of the exhibition Pop to Present: American Art from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.  Assam was the coordinating curator of the Richmond presentation of Whitfield Lovell: Passages (2023). Prior to the VMFA, she worked at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, as the Constance E. Clayton Curatorial Fellow (2019-2021) where she played an integral role in the Philadelphia presentation of Senga Nengudi: Topologies (2021). Before her time in Philadelphia, Assam was 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 an MA in Art History and a BA in Art History from Florida State University.