Brielmaier has extensive museum experience including her current role as curator at large at the International Center of Photography in New York, and previously, as chief curator of exhibitions at Savannah College of Art and Design in Georgia, and curator at the Bronx Museum. She also served as curator at large for the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College.

For six years she was executive director and curator of arts, culture, and community for Westfield World Trade Center and has been a curatorial and strategic consultant for Prospect 3 in New Orleans as well as Amazon Web Services’s first AI-based artist commission set to premiere this fall. She is currently an assistant professor of critical studies in the Tisch School’s department of photography, imaging, and emerging media at New York University. She serves in an editorial capacity for Graydon Carter’s media venture Air Mail.

In the announcement of the new hire, Phillips praised Brielmaier as “a great team player with a powerful collaborative spirit and a deep interest and commitment to the New Museum.” She will oversee external affairs, marketing and communications, and NEW INC. (which announced its own new director, Salome Asega, at the beginning of the month), as well as media partnerships, publications, and visitor experience, among other areas.

Wong is leaving at the end of August to co-found and lead GBA/Guilty by Association, a new for-profit venture focused on empowering underrepresented artists. She will remain a consultant for the museum.