Practices:

Exhibition Design

Project Management

Custom Fabrication

Scheming

Dreaming

Visitor Projects is led by Spencer Byrne-Seres, an artist, designer, and arts administrator who creates experimental platforms for art and public research. He currently serves as the Director of Exhibitions at MASS MoCA, overseeing large scale commissions and installations in the museums expansive gallery spaces. From 2014–2020 Spencer served as Head Preparator and Exhibitions Director at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art , where he supported a year round visual arts program and facilitated large scale artist projects and site specific installations. He has worked as an exhibition designer and custom fabricator for museums, art non-profits, galleries and artists nationally, focusing on managing and producing special projects that present unique challenges in both their fabrication and installation. He has worked on ambitious projects with numerous artists over the years, including Laurie Anderson, Carrie Schneider, Jeffrey Gibson, Jimena Sarno, Vincent Valdez, Osman Khan, EJ Hill, Joseph Grigely, Steve Locke, Chris Doyle, Abigail DeVille, Jason Moran, Zora J Murff, and Carlos Motta to name just a few.

Spencer is an artist, and has taught Sculpture and Digital Foundations at Portland State University, combining extensive experience in sculptural processes, social practice, and exhibition making. Over the past three years, he co-developed an Artist Residency program within a minimum security men’s prison in Northeast Portland, in order to support the work of currently incarcerated artists. He approaches arts administration and production through the lens of an artist, bringing novel and creative solutions to the many challenges that artists face in producing their work.

Email
spencer@visitorprojects.studio