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I am a curator, critic and educator based in the Bay Area. At present, I curate the Worth Ryder Gallery and coordinate the Graduate Lecture Series for the Department of Art Practice at the University of California, Berkeley. I am also an adjunct lecturer in the Department of Art at College of Marin in Kentfield, CA. As a consultant, I have worked with Bay Area artists and with venues including Swarm Gallery, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, Johansson Projects, Frey Norris, The Present Group, Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center, National Institute for Art and Disabilities, and Transmissions Gallery, and with New Delhi-based gallery Nature Morte. My writing has appeared in numerous print and online publications including Leonardo, Shotgun Review, Camerawork: A Journal of Photographic Arts, and Open Space, the blog of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. I am a regular contributor to Artillery magazine. From 2008-09, I was Gallery Director at Aicon Gallery in Palo Alto, specializing in South Asian contemporary and modern art. From 2007-08, I was Program Director at Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, California, where I curated public programs, studio work-in-progress and temporary exhibitions, and supervised the residency and commissions programs. In 2006, I was Associate Producer of the ISEA2006 Symposium and concurrent Zero One San Jose: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge, August 7-13, 2006, in San Jose, CA, where I co-curated C4F3: The Cafe for the Interactive City at the San Jose Museum of Art and produced 50 installations and performances by international artists. From 2005-06, I was Exhibitions Director at the Richmond Art Center where I curated the group exhibition Dress: Clothing as Art and solo exhibitions by Ala Ebtekar, Mads Lynnerup and Beth Cook, and organized numerous others. Prior
to relocating to the Bay Area
from New York in 2002, I managed the studio of artists Claes Oldenburg
and Coosje van Bruggen from 1999-2002. I received an M.A. in Curatorial
Practice from
California
College of the Arts, San
Francisco, in 2005, and a B.S. in Studio Art from New York University,
completed 1997. |
