Alexandra Cunningham Cameron to Lead Design at the Judd Foundation
The Judd Foundation has created a new director of design position and appointed Alexandra Cunningham Cameron to fill it. She will begin on April 27 and take on oversight of Donald Judd Furniture LLC, the company responsible for fabricating Donald Judd’s furniture designs to his original specifications.
The move signals a broader effort to extend the reach of Judd’s design legacy. Donald Judd Furniture currently produces more than 70 designs, all available for custom order. In her new role, Cameron will guide product development, operations, strategic growth, and design initiatives that place Judd’s work in conversation with contemporary cultural and design discourse, with particular attention to his writings and papers.
Cameron arrives from Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York, where she is curator of contemporary design and the institution’s first Hintz Secretarial Scholar. Her curatorial work there has ranged from “Willi Smith: Street Couture” in 2020 to “Making Home—Smithsonian Design Triennial” in 2024–25, a museum-wide exhibition that included work by CFGNY, Hugh Hayden, Joiri Minaya, Sofía Gallisá Muriente, and Amie Siegel.
She also collaborated with Duro Olowu on his 2022 “Selects” exhibition and has helped shape Cooper Hewitt’s collection through acquisitions of work by Tschabalala Self, Dondi White, Amanda Williams, Martha Goddard, and Tobias Wong. She is currently developing a Tobias Wong exhibition for late 2027 that will draw on more than 50 major works donated by the designer’s family.
Cameron began her career at Design Miami in 2007 and was promoted to creative director in 2012 before joining Cooper Hewitt in 2018. Flavin Judd, the foundation’s artistic director, said the organization is eager to bring more of Donald Judd’s furniture into public view through future initiatives and collaborations. The appointment suggests a continued effort to frame Judd not only as a sculptor, but as a designer whose furniture remains central to the conversation around modern form, function, and authorship.
