About

Amethyst Rey Beaver is a contemporary art curator, writer, and UX designer based in Louisville, KY. She is the Director & Co-Founder of Couchpotato, a contemporary art space, in her living room, in Louisville, Kentucky. Since 2022, she has been a UX Designer for Modernizing Medicine's User Experience Team, working on clinical enhancements, patient engagement tools, and long-term enterprise readiness projects. From 2016-2022, she worked as the assistant curator of 21c Museum Hotels, overseeing 20 rotating exhibitions in 9 locations across the country each year. From 2012-2016, Amethyst worked at the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin on the Latin American and Modern & Contemporary curatorial teams on exhibitions, publications, and public programming. 

For the past ten years, Amethyst has focused her efforts on fostering relationships with artists, institutions, galleries, and collectors, working to design a more equitable art world that recognizes and celebrates the contributions of artists, writers, and curators who have been systematically underrepresented in the art world.

From selecting the sightlines to determining the sequencing of works, an art exhibition is a unique and personal (user) experience. As a UX designer, Amethyst combines her interests in art and technology to creatively solve problems that impact humanity.

Amethyst is currently pursuing a M.S. in Human Factors in Information Design at the McCallum School of Business at Bentley University. She received her M.A. in Modern & Contemporary Latin American art history from the University of Texas at Austin and her B.A. from Wellesley College. In 2010, she lived, worked, and studied in Valparaíso, Chile as a Fulbright Fellow.