Curatorial

Mihnea Mircan

Curator and Writer
Mihnea Mircan was a Visiting Curator Panel Participant/Speaker at the Location/Translation Symposium at the Arts Research Center on September 19, 2012.

Mihnea Mircan is a curator based in Leuven, Belgium. As artistic director of Extra City Kunsthal Antwerp between 2011-15, he curated, among others, ‘A Slowdown at the Museum’, ‘The Corner Show’ (with Wouter Davidts and Philip Metten), ‘1:1. Hans van Houwelingen and Jonas Staal’, the series ‘Cross-examinations’, and ‘Jean-Luc Moulène, Endwards’. His recent work includes the long-term research project ‘Allegory of the...

Angela Mattox

Director of Artist Initiatives at Creative Capital
Angela Mattox was a Visiting Curator Panel Participant at the Curating People Symposium at the Arts Research Center on April 29, 2011.

For over two decades, Angela Mattox has dedicated her career to supporting and championing contemporary artists as a multi-disciplinary funder and presenter. From 2020-2024, she served as Creative Capital’s Senior Manager of Awardee Engagement. In that role, she worked closely with Creative Capital awardees to support the development of their projects, connecting artists to the skills, resources and industry networks they need...

Leigh Markopoulos

Curator, Art Writer, and Former Chair of the Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice at California College of the Arts
Leigh Markopoulos was a Visiting Curator Panel Participant at the Curating People Symposium at the Arts Research Center on April 29, 2011.

Leigh Markopoulos (1968-2017) was a writer, editor, curator, arts manager, the Director of the Steven Leiber Trust, a significant collection of artist's books, ephemera, and works, and the chair of the Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice at the California College of the Arts (CCA), San Francisco since 2008. Markopoulos came to San Francisco from London in 2002 to become deputy director of the CCA Wattis Institute for...

Padma Dorje Maitland

ARC Fellow and Associate Curator of the Art of the Indian Subcontinent at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco
Padma Dorje Maitland was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2013– he was chosen in the Graduate category.

Dr. Padma Dorje Maitland is the newly-appointed Malavalli Family Foundation Associate Curator of the Art of the Indian Subcontinent at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. He was previously an assistant professor of architectural history, theory, and criticism California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, prior to which he served in curatorial positions at Stanford’s Cantor Art Center and the Minneapolis Institute of Art. He recently curated the exhibition...

Miguel A. López

Writer and Former Chief Curator/Co-Director at TEOR/ética
Miguel A. López gave a Visiting Writer Lecture at the Arts Research Center on September 19, 2017.

Miguel A. López is a writer and curator. In his practice, he focuses on the role of art in politics and public life, collective work and collaborative dynamics, and queer and feminist rewritings of history. He is a co-curator for the 2024 edition of the Toronto Biennial of Art. From 2015 to 2020, he worked as Chief Curator, and later Co-director at TEOR/éTica, Costa Rica. Previously, López was curator of Lugar a Dudas, Colombia, in 2012-2013. In 2014, he curated the section...

Fabián Leyva-Barragán

ARC Fellow and Curatorial Fellow in the Visual Arts Department at the Walker Art Center
Fabián Leyva-Barragán was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2012 – he was chosen in the Undergraduate category.

Fabián Leyva-Barragán is a curatorial fellow in the Visual Arts Department at the Walker Art Center. Among his curatorial duties, he coordinated the Walker’s presentation of Adi’s Utopia: Dreams and Deceptions in Cuban Art Since 1950 along with Olga Viso, following the exhibition’s previous showing at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Before the Walker, Fabián was a curatorial assistant in the Department of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, CA,...

Constance Lewallen

Former Adjunct Curator at University of California Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Constance Lewallen gave a Visiting Curator Tour and Talk at the Arts Research Center on December 4, 2016.

Constance Lewallen (1939–2022) was an American curator. She was known for her support of Conceptual art and West Coast artists. Lewallen was born and raised in New York City. She received her BA from Mount Holyoke College and her MA from California State University, San Diego. She was an adjunct curator at the University of California, Berkeley, Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. In 1996 she curated Jay DeFeo: Selected Works 1952-1989 for Moore...

Anneka Lenssen

2019 ARC Fellow
Anneka Lenssen was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2019 - she was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category.

Anneka Lenssen specializes in modern painting and contemporary visual practices, with a focus on the cultural politics of the Middle East. Her research examines problems of artistic representation in relation to the globalizing imaginaries of empire, nationalism, communism, decolonization, and Third World humanism.

She is the author of Beautiful Agitation: Modern Painting and Politics in Syria (UC Press, 2020), which won the 2021 Syrian Studies Association Best Book...

Thomas Jean Lax

Writer and Curator in the Department of Media and Performance at MoMA
Thomas Jean Lax was a Visiting Curator/Moderator at the Visual Activism Conference at the Arts Research Center on November 12, 2020.

Thomas Jean Lax is a curator and writer specializing in black art, queer study and performance. At the Museum of Modern Art, they organized the exhibition Just Above Midtown: Changing Spaces (2022) about the gallery, founded by ...

Tina Kukielski

Director and Chief Curator at Art21
Tina Kukielski was a Visiting Curator Panel Participant at the Feminist Curatorial Practices Roundtable Conversation at the Arts Research Center on April 11, 2018.

Tina Kukielski joined Art21 after more than thirteen years as a contemporary art curator. She was a co-curator of the acclaimed 2013 Carnegie International, bringing together 35 established and emerging artists from 19 different countries. During her time at the ...