Alexandra Cunningham Cameron

Alexandra Cunningham Cameron is a writer, curator and critical thinker on contemporary design. She currently sits as curator of contemporary design and Hintz Secretarial Scholar at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. 

Formerly editor in chief of independent arts journal The Miami Rail and Creative Director of the Design Miami/ fairs, Cameron has organized a broad range of exhibitions, publications, and programs that examine design’s role in shaping contemporary values. She has spearheaded award-winning public commissions and exhibitions with designers and artists including Willi Smith, Dozie Kanu, Terrol Dew Johnson, Aranda/Lasch, and Jamilah Sabur, while advancing inventive cross-disciplinary programs with collaborators such as Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, the United Nations, and Thom Browne. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Financial Times, Vogue, PIN UP, The New Yorker, and other international publications. She organized Willi Smith: Street Couture the first exhibition and monograph on the pioneering American designer.