Alyssa Mattocks

Alyssa Mattocks is the assistant director at Deli Gallery, New York, NY. Alyssa organizes and curates exhibitions across the New York and Mexico City spaces. Originally from San Francisco, CA, she moved to New York in 2019. She earned her BA in Art History from Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH, and an MA in French Studies from New York University, New York, NY. Before Deli Gallery, she worked at David Zwirner, New York, NY, for three years as an archive intern, gallery assistant, and finally as a Sales Assistant to the Senior Partner managing artists Marlene Dumas, Toba Khedoori, Neo Rauch, and the Estate of Raoul De Keyser.

Alyssa recently assisted Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich on her film The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire (2024), which premiered at International Film Festival Rotterdam this year and is currently on view in the Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing. Alyssa, with co-curator Ethel Renia, is currently organizing an intergenerational Black feminist group exhibition, including Emma Amos, Camille Billops, Brianna Rose Brooks, Lex Brown, Vivian Browne, Addoley Dzegede, Ines di Folco, Margo Humphrey, Devin N. Morris, and Alison Saar, which opens at Deli Gallery in New York on July 18.