Alice Gray Stites is Museum Director and Chief Curator for 21c Museum Hotels, a multi-venue museum dedicated to exhibiting, collecting, and commissioning global contemporary art, and located in seven cities across the U.S. Stites curates exhibitions, site-specific, commissioned installations, and a range of cultural programming at all 21c Museum Hotels. 

Recent exhibitions include Labor&Materials, The Future is Female; Wim Botha: Still Life with Discontent; The SuperNatural 2.0; Refuge; This We Believe; Still, Life! Mourning, Meaning, Mending; Revival: Digging into Yesterday, Planting Tomorrow; and Fragile Figures: Beings and Time.

Prior to joining 21c as Chief Curator in 2012, Stites was director of artwithoutwalls, a public arts organization, and served as adjunct curator of contemporary art at the Speed Art Museum. Stites has lectured at organizations such as Art Basel Conversations, EXPO Chicago, Untitled Miami, TEDx Stockholm, The New Museum, FotoFocus, Americans for the Arts.