Jenny Gil Schmitz is a Spanish-American arts advocate who has been holding leadership positions in museum and public arts organizations for over 15 years.
Prior to her current position as Executive Director at Desert X, Jenny Gil was Director of Exhibitions at Faena Art, in Miami and Buenos Aires where she oversaw the inaugural public exhibition programs of the OMA / Rem Koolhaas Faena Forum in Miami Beach. She had been Executive Director of ICOM’s International Committee of Contemporary and Modern Art Museums (CIMAM) in Barcelona, Spain, from 2011 until 2015 where she created the Museum Watch program and was Founder and Director of Ninetofive, a contemporary art production bureau in Barcelona from 2008 to 2015 where she produced award-winning and critically acclaimed international exhibitions. Jenny Gil holds a Masters in Philosophy by the Université Paris-Sorbonne and a Masters in Fine Arts by the Ecole Supérieure Nationale de la Photographie, Arles, France. She has contributed to international art publications, including Cahiers du Cinéma, Madrid; La Vanguardia, Barcelona, Papers d’Art, Girona and Arte al Dia, Miami. Jenny in based in the Coachella Valley where she lives with her husband and their son.