Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Collaborating with Director and Chief Curator Dina Deitsch and the Tufts University Art Galleries (TUAG) team on forthcoming traveling exhibitions co-organized with guest curators as well as original exhibitions, symposia, and programming at both TUAG campus gallery sites in downtown Boston and Medford; managing the Andy Warhol Foundation Collective Futures Fund regional regranting program; serving as a liaison to SMFA faculty, staff, students, and the Greater Boston arts community; assisting with the oversight of the University art collection; and producing new research and publications. Exhibitions: —Christian Walker: The Profane and the Poignant (Noam Parness and Jackson Davidow) (Spring 2024) —As the World Burns: Queer Photography and Nightlife in Boston (Jackson Davidow) (Spring 2024) with design by Body & Forma —Ulises: Assembly (Fall 2024) with design by Kristian Henson —an archive and/or a repertoire (Spring 2025) featuring Mobius Artists Group, Takahiro Yamamoto, Aki Sakamoto with design by Marie Otsuka —How do you throw a brick through the window... (Fall 2025, co-curated with Tanya Gayer, and co-organized with the John Michael Kohler Arts Center) featuring Yani aviles, Chloe P. Crawford, Nat Decker, Jeff Kasper, Carly Mandel, Jeffrey Meris, and Libby Paloma with design by Emily Sara —Magical Thinking featuring manuel arturo abreu, DB Amorin, Jonathan González, fields harrington, sidony o'neal, and Africanus Okokon with design by Jon Santos —Arnold Kemp: Not one thing, July–December, 2026
I co-convened a symposium, Magical Thinking, with manuel arturo abreu in collaboration with Director of Public Engagement, Lisa Dent; Curator, Alexandra Foradas; and Education Coordinator, Claire Hutchinson. Participants include: manuel arturo abreu, DB Amorin, Jonathan González, fields harrington, sidony o'neal, Africanus Okokon, Emilio Rojas, Tavia Nyong'o, Rebecca Schneider, Joshua Chambers-Letson, and S*an Henry Smith. Funding for the symposium was provided by a 2023 Terra Foundation for American Art Convening Grant.
I organized the traveling survey of multidisciplinary artist Emilio Rojas entitled, "tracing a wound through my body," which debuted at the Lafayette College Art Galleries, September 2–November 13, 2021, traveled to Emerson Contemporary, September 21–November 6, 2022 and the Usdan Gallery of Bennington College, February 21–April 21, 2023, and is now on view at SECCA, May 11–August 20, 2023. The exhibition is accompanied by an extensive programming series including performance activations and an artist talk, in addition to a digital catalog with essays from myself, Valeria Luiselli, Ethan Madarieta, Mechtild Widrich in collaboration with Andrei Pop, and Rebecca Schneider; an interview with Ernesto Pujol; and poetic contributions from the artist in collaboration with Pamela Sneed.
I organized the traveling survey of multidisciplinary artist Emilio Rojas entitled, "tracing a wound through my body," which debuted at the Lafayette College Art Galleries, September 2–November 13, 2021, traveled to Emerson Contemporary, September 21–November 6, 2022, and was on view at the Usdan Gallery of Bennington College, February 21–April 21, 2023. The gallery commissioned a new performance in the "Control the Bor(D)ers" sereies by Emilio Rojas in collaboration with undergraduate and graduate students. The exhibition is accompanied by an extensive programming series including screenings, performance activations, and lectures, in addition to a catalog with essays from myself, Valeria Luiselli, Ethan Madarieta, Mechtild Widrich in collaboration with Andrei Pop, and Rebecca Schneider; an interview with Ernesto Pujol; and poetic contributions from the artist in collaboration with Pamela Sneed.
I collaborated with Executive Director Lisa Dent and the Artspace New Haven team on the organization of contemporary, experimental, culturally-urgent exhibitions and programs with local, national, and international artists, curators, designers, and partners. [Voicings], February 11–April 15, 2023, featuring Christine Sun Kim, Mira Dayal, JJJJJerome Ellis, Nikita Gale, Dominique Duroseau, Matt Keegan, Amiko Li, Gordon Hall, Joseph Keckler, and Sahra Motalebi (supported by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, CT Humanities, Community Foundation for Greater New Haven, Connecticut Office of the Arts) Ilana Harris-Babou: Revelations, September 17–December 3, 2022 (supported by Mellon Foundation, the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven, CT Humanities, and the New England Foundation for the Arts) Against the General Good/ Contra El Bien General, featuring Bergman & Salinas, September 17–December 3, 2022 (supported by Andy Warhol Foundation, CT Humanities, Mellon Foundation, and VIA Art Fund) Completely Familiar, Entirely Free, guest-curated by Lino Kino, July 16–September 10, 2022 and featuring the work of Lani Asunción, Amira Brown, Saskia Globig & Michael Ipsen, Kyuri Jeon, Micah Lat, Matt Lavine, Anna Lindemann, Shelby Meier, Fred Schmidt-Arenales, Jessica Smolinski, and Sonnie Wooden (supported by Andy Warhol Foundation, CT Humanities, Mellon Foundation, and VIA Art Fund)
I worked with Executive Director Lisa Dent and the Artspace team on the exhibition Dyschronics, featuring the work of Carolina Caycedo, Emily Jacir, Baseera Khan, Tsedaye Makonnen, and Dawit L. Petros (supported by Andy Warhol Foundation, CT Humanities, Mellon Foundation, and VIA Art Fund)), and a group exhibition featuring the work of the Yale Art Gallery and Artspace Happy and Bob Doran CT 2021 Artists-in-Residence, Leonard Galmon, Ruby Gonzalez Hernandez, Allison Minto, Julia Rooney, and Joseph Smolinski (supported by Yale University Art Gallery, Andy Warhol Foundation, CT Humanities, Mellon Foundation, and VIA Art Fund). The exhibitions were accompanied by exhibition catalogs and programming. The Dyschronics catalog featured a curatorial lead essay authored by myself, a roundtable with Carolina Caycedo, Emily Jacir, Baseera Khan, and Tsedaye Makonnen, and a reflection co-authored by Dawit L. Petros and myself. The Footnotes catalog featured interviews between Filippo Lorenzin and Julia Rooney; Danni Shen and Ruby Gonzalez Hernandez, Joseph Smolinski and myself; Allison Minto and Jamillah Hinson; and Leonard Galmon and Camille Bacon.