Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area
Kristina Newhouse is now advising artists on strategies for organizing their estate and archives, as well as placing artwork in institutional art collections. She formerly served as Curator of Exhibitions for the Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum at CSU Long Beach. Her last curatorial project, Linda Besemer: StrokeRollFoldSheetSlabGlitch, was at the Kleefeld Contemporary in 2022. In 2021, she curated “Uncertain Allies,” a monographic exhibition by Neha Choksi that featured sculptures, painted wall works, and a newly produced video, “Charge” (2021). Due to the pandemic, the Museum pivoted online, making the exhibition available at nehachoksi.com. In 2020, Newhouse worked with TBM Designs to present "sm[ART]box," a site-specific sustainable structure to test a revolutionary self-shading window system. On the exterior of sm[ART]box was an overall visual design by Yaloo Ji Yeon Lim, a South Korean contemporary digital artist. Her 2017 project, "David Lamelas: A Life of Their Own," was presented in the Getty Pacific Standard Time LA/LA Initiative and was accompanied by an exhibition catalogue distributed by Getty Publications. Newhouse also served as the executive producer of a short film by Lamelas, "In Our Time," which premiered at the Getty in May 2018. This PST exhibition traveled to MALBA in Buenos Aires as "Con Vida Propio" in 2018. From 2001 through 2008, Newhouse was curator of the Torrance Art Museum. In 2011, she presented "She Accepts the Proposition: Women Gallerists and the Redefinition of Art in Los Angeles, 1967-1977" at the Sam Francis Gallery at Crossroads School as part of the Getty’s first PST initiative. In 2009, she co-curated an exhibition entitled "Superficiality and Superexcrescence: Surface and Identity in Recent California Art," funded by the Fellows of Contemporary Art and presented at the Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design. In 2007, she curated "Fran Siegel: Companion" at the IX Bienal Internacional de Cuenca in Ecuador. This project was presented under the auspices of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the US State Department. Since 1996, Newhouse has curated at exhibition sites ranging from local universities and community colleges, Los Angeles World Airports (Ontario), the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, and commercial galleries. Her exhibitions have featured in publications including Los Angeles Times, Apollo, the Art Newspaper, Artforum.com, Art Ltd., LA Weekly, CARLA, Frieze, New York Times, Sculpture, and THE Magazine.
I work closely with artists and their advocates to devise and implement plans for organizing the fruits of artists' lifelong practices; promote artists' portfolios of art; and identify potential repositories for artworks, records, ephemera, and other materials. If called upon, I will research, curate, and find venues for solo exhibitions of artists’ works, as well as produce didactics, press releases, and reading lists. I can also write, edit, or produce publications for artists. As needed, I will help artists and their advocates to identify appropriate legal, financial, accounting, appraisal, and secondary-market partners for estate planning.
I work with fine artists on grant proposals, CVs, website content, and more. Also available for proofreading and editing artist publications and catalogs.
Since 1996 Kristina Newhouse has curated more than 40 exhibitions. In the capacity of freelance art critic, Newhouse has written features or reviews for X-tra, Art + Text, New Art Examiner, Sculpture, and Artnet.com.
Participate in board activities, in preparation for the 2026 Converge 45 Biennial, "Here--To you-- Now," curated by Lumi Tan
The Getty Research Institute presented the world premiere of David Lamelas's new short film, "In Our Time" (2018), with scenes filmed at the Getty Center. Time, location, memory, and love play out in front of artist James Ensor's masterpiece, Christ's Entry into Brussels in 1889 (1888). This event included a screening of Lamelas's short film, "The Invention of Dr. Morel" (2000), and a conversation between the artist and curators Kristina Newhouse (University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach) and Glenn Phillips (Getty Research Institute). Funding for In Our Time was provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.