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Selby is a curator, writer, and researcher based in Cambridge, MA. She is the inaugural Director of Exhibitions and Commons for the MIT School of Architecture and Planning at its new home in “The Met Warehouse”—an adaptive reuse by Diller Scofidio + Renfro of the iconic Metropolitan Storage Warehouse at Mass Ave and Vassar Street in Cambridge. From 2019-2024 she was Assistant Curator at the MIT List Visual Arts Center where she organized over a dozen exhibitions including: Symbionts: Contemporary Artists and the Biosphere (co-curated with Caroline Jones and Natalie Bell); US museum solo debuts of Kite, Lex Brown, Alison Nguyen, Azza El Siddique, Carlos Reyes, Hana Miletić, Sharona Franklin, Andrew Norman Wilson, Cindy Ji Hye Kim,  Becca Albee,  Rami George; and the east coast presentation of Nayland Blake’s major survey, No Wrong Holes: Thirty Years of Nayland Blake. She also assisted on solo exhibitions with Ericka Beckman, Christine Sun Kim, Alicja Kwade, Kathleen Ryan, and Farah Al Qasimi.

As an independent curator, Selby has realized group exhibitions, screenings, and perfor­mances at institutions including the International Studio and Curatorial Program, New York; the Kitchen, New York; Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; Seton Gallery at the University of New Haven; the Watkinson Library; JUDY, Los Angeles; and a swimsuit factory, among others. Her writing has ap­peared in BLUE, Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles, AQNB, and Big Red & Shiny as well as in several journals and catalogues, including a monograph on Ericka Beckman published by Hirmer Verlag. She is a co-editor of Symbionts: Contemporary Artists and the Biosphere (MIT Press, 2022).

She earned an undergraduate degree in Art History from the University of St Andrews, Scotland and an MA from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, where her thesis looked at the trans-disciplinary literary and performance art of writer and dominatrix Terence Sellers (1952-2016). The related exhibition Measures of Authority, presented materials from Sellers’ papers at the Fales Library & Special Collections alongside artworks by Chris Kraus and Leigh Ledare.

She is the recipient of a 2020 Étant donnés Curatorial Research Fellowship from the French American Cultural Exchange.