Curatorial

Amanda Eicher

ARC Fellow, Artist, Educator, and Arts Administrator

Amanda Eicher is an artist, educator, and arts administrator who has lived and worked in the Bay Area since 1999. Currently the Executive Director at NIAD Art Center, Amanda has also worked at Creativity Explored as a teaching artist. In 2001, she collaborated with Andrew McKinley and the Adobe Books community (which includes many CE artists) to open The Back Room Gallery, a one-room project space dedicated to installation work by emerging artists, where Amanda was a curator through 2003 before passing curatorial duties to a series of collaborative and cooperative...

Adrienne Edwards

Scholar, Writer, and Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Whitney Museum of American Art

Adrienne Edwards is a curator, scholar and writer whose work concerns visual, performance and cross-boundary art as well as histories, concepts, modes and methods of blackness.

Currently the Engell Speyer Family Curator and Curator of Performance at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, Edwards has realised a number of interdisciplinary projects and commissions with a wide range of artists for Performa, where she was previously Curator (2010–2018). She has worked with Jonathas de Andrade, Yto Barrada, Chimurenga, Teju Cole, Kwani Trust,...

Derrick Duren

Curator

Derrick Duren is a senior transfer student at UC Berkeley completing a double major in Media and American Studies. Derrick has dedicated much of their extracurricular time to social justice education and advocacy through their experiences as Multi-Cultural Awareness Chair and as a curator for Multi, their inaugural art showcase for students of color at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Derrick currently serves as a Development Assistant & Honorary Student Committee member at the Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive. As a summer fellow,...

Jess Dorrance

ARC Fellow and PhD Candidate in the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at UC Berkeley

Jess Dorrance is a writer, curator, activist, and and doctoral student in Performance Studies at University of California, Berkeley. She writes about the intersections between art, performance, and queer, feminist, and anti-racist politics. She holds an MA in Art History (2014) from McGill University (thesis on queer visibility, representation, and trauma), and has been working with the Institute for Queer Theory since 2008.

While living in Berlin (2008-2012) Jess has been actively envolved in all areas of running the Institute for Queer Theory: Among others, she co...

Apsara DiQuinzio

Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at Nevada Museum of Art

Apsara DiQuinzio is senior curator of contemporary art at the Nevada Museum of Art, where she oversees the contemporary program. Over the course of DiQuinzio’s twenty-year career as a curator, she has organized over fifty exhibitions of art, including solo exhibitions with leading contemporary artists such as Michael Armitage, Trisha Donnelly, Vincent Fecteau, Arthur Jafa, Cannupa Hanska Luger, Otobong Nkanga, Christina Quarles, R.H. Quaytman, and Paul Sietsema, among many others. Previously, she was the senior curator of modern and contemporary art and Phyllis C. Wattis...

Joseph Del Pesco

Independent Curator, Organizer, Art Journalist, Web-Media Producer

Joseph del Pesco is an independent curator, organizer, art journalist, and web-media producer. He has realized curatorial projects at Artists Space in New York; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco; Galerie Analix in Geneva, Switzerland; the Rooseum in Malmö, Sweden; Articule in Montréal, Canada; the Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada; the Nelson Gallery at the University of California, Davis; and most recently at the The Berkeley Art Museum in Berkeley California. He has contributed interviews, reviews and other texts to Flash Art, X-Tra, Proximity, Fillip...

Seth Curcio

Co-owner of Shula Nazarian Gallery

Seth Curcio, Co-owner of Shula Nazarian Gallery, has served as Senior Director from 2016–2022. During this time, he spearheaded the gallery’s relocation from Venice Beach to its current home at 616 N La Brea Ave in Hollywood, and expanded the gallery’s presence by adding a second exhibition space in the same location in 2020.

Since joining the gallery, Curcio has been pivotal in the development of its program, curating over a dozen exhibitions and overseeing the addition of many artists including Trenton Doyle Hancock, Wendell Gladstone,...

11/14 Lisa Blackmore: How to Eat a River

November 14, 2024
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Deena Chalabi

Writer, Curator, and Strategist

Deena Chalabi is a strategist, curator and writer whose work explores how individual expression and critical thought can impact and expand public imagination. She was most recently Senior Director of Growth and Partnerships at The OpEd Project, a global thought leadership initiative for elevating underrepresented voices working towards a more intelligent and inclusive world.

Deena is also Brand Advisor at Armory Square Ventures and teaches global contemporary art in the Curatorial Practice graduate program at the California College of the Arts.

She was the...

Johanna Burton

Director of The Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art

Johanna Burton is the Maurice Marciano Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Prior to joining MoCA, Burton served as executive director of the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, and as Keith Haring Director and Curator of Education and Public Engagement at the New Museum, New York. Burton has been active in the contemporary art field for more than 20 years, including more than a decade of leadership experience in major museums and prominent arts and education institutions.