I am a curator and writer based in the
East Bay. As a consultant, I have worked with Bay Area
venues including 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 Artillery, Shotgun Review,
and Camerawork:
A Journal of Photographic Arts.
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.
I
live in the East Bay with my husband
and cats.