Aily Nash

Aily Nash is a curator and educator based in New York. She is a programmer at the New York Film Festival, serving on the selection committee for the Currents section, and is head of short films. She co-curated the Projections section of the festival from 2014–2019. From 2015-2022, she was a program advisor to the International Film Festival Rotterdam’s short film section. She served as a Biennial advisor and co-curator of the film program for the 2017 Whitney Biennial and was head of programming for the 2018 Images Festival in Toronto. Her writing has appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, BOMB Magazine, Artforum, Film Comment, and elsewhere. She currently teaches at Bard College and Bard Prison Initiative.