Jessica Niebel

Jessica Niebel is senior exhibitions curator at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, for which she organized Color in Motion: Chromatic Explorations of Cinema (2024), Shifting Perspectives: Vertical Cinema (2023), Director’s Inspiration: Agnès Varda (2022, co-curated with Ana Santiago), and the inaugural exhibitions Hayao Miyazaki and The Path to Cinema: Highlights from the Richard Balzer Collection (both 2021). She previously organized internationally touring exhibitions including Anime! High Art–Pop Culture (2008); Jim Rakete: The State of Things (2011); And the Oscar Goes to. . . 85 Years of the Best Picture Academy Award (2012); and Theaters: Cinema Photography by Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre (2014) as curator at DFF Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum in Frankfurt, Germany.