CV
Professional Experience
2023 Director / Curator, Institute of Contemporary Art Santa Fe (ICA Santa Fe), Santa Fe, NM
2021–2022 Assistant Curator / Registrar, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
2020–2023 Archives Manager / Guest Curator, Poeh Cultural Center, Pojoaque Pueblo, NM
2016–2019 Founder / Curator, Panel LA
2015–2016 Curator in Residence, Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, Portland, OR
2014–2019 Founder / Director / Curator, Thousand Points of Light, Joshua Tree, CA
Artists residency
2012–2015 Director, Human Resources L.A., Los Angeles, CA
A non-profit arts space
2012–2013 Director of Outreach, 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA
Curatorial Projects & Programs
2026 Co-Curator - Woven Futures: Unfixed/Unbound Patterns: Contemporary Diné Weaving, Institute of Contemporary Art Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM — Venancio Aragón
2026 Curator - Memories of the Past That Hug Me in a Nest, Institute of Contemporary Art Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM — Tiago Almeida
2025 Curator - Mariah Garnett: The Pow’r of Life is Love, Institute of Contemporary Art Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
2025 Co-Curator - Reservation for Irony: Native Wit and Contemporary Realities, Institute of Contemporary Art Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM — Trotta-Bono Contemporary
2024 Curator - Natalia Pereira: a birth – I can’t stop, Institute of Contemporary Art Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
2024 Curator - HUNTER: Selections from the Personal Collections of Tony Abeyta, Institute of Contemporary Art Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
2024 Curator - Hana Kostis: An Incoherent Body, Institute of Contemporary Art Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
2019 Curator - They Won’t Survive Without the Bird Songs, The Box, Los Angeles, CA — Ursula Reuter Christiansen & Henning Christiansen
2018 Curator - Simulated Labor, Panel LA, Los Angeles, CA — Nate Gonzales Hess
2017 Curator - Pyramids, Panel LA, Los Angeles, CA — Carmen Argote
2017 Curator - Pamper Rooms, Panel LA, Los Angeles, CA — Daniel Long and Alexandra Eastburn
2017 Curator - Accidentally on Purpose, Panel LA, Los Angeles, CA — Aimee Goguen
2016 Curator - The Music That Makes Us, Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, Portland, OR — Portland State University Social Practice Department and Harrell Fletcher
2016 Curator - A Mortal Song, Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, Portland, OR — Caley Feeney and Tori Wrånes
2016 Curator - Contact Expo, Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, Portland, OR — DLS Solution
2015 Curator - Interval/Habitat, Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, Portland, OR — Byron Westbrook
2015 Curator - The Book of Scores, Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, Portland, OR
Group show
2015 Curator - Nothing To You, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, OR — MPA
TBA Festival
2015 Curator - OUTSIDE MUSEUM, Joshua Tree, CA — TPL, PMOA and Neil Doshi
2015 Curator - In Search of an Author, U.K.S., Oslo, Norway — Andrew Berardini
Group show
2015 Publication - In Search of an Author, Act I
2014 Curator - The Third Ear, FOCA, Los Angeles, CA
Group show
2014 Curator - Three White Soldiers, TPL, Joshua Tree, CA — Anders Paulin and Johan Forsman
2013 Co-Founder - L.A.C.C. (Los Angeles Critique Club), Los Angeles, CA
2013 Curator - Rage and Patience, Human Resources L.A., Los Angeles, CA — Rasmus Røhling
2013 Curator - Interval / Habitat, Human Resources L.A., Los Angeles, CA — Byron Westbrook
2013 Curator - Hammer Without a Master, Kunsthal 44 Møen, Denmark
Henning Christiansen's Archive
2013 Publication - FLIM FLAM FLIX FLUXUM
Sculptural publication including LPs made for archives
2013 Curator - Monte Cristo, Human Resources L.A., Los Angeles, CA — Math Bass & Leidy Churchman
2013 Publication - Social Practice in Questions — Bill Kelley Jr.
2013 Symposium - International Boondocks — Ceci N'est Pa and CalArts
2012 Curator - Gap, Mark, Sever and Return, Human Resources L.A., Los Angeles, CA
Group show
2012 Curator in Residence, Kunsthal 44 Møen, Denmark — Alicja Kwade, with René Block
2012 Curator in Residence, Kunsthal 44 Møen, Denmark — Kimsooja, with René Block
2012 Curator in Residence - Capitalist Realism, Kunsthal 44 Møen, Denmark — René Block
2012 Producer / Editor - 10-Day Performance of the Successes and Failures of Consensus, Los Angeles, CA — The Getty and Human Resources
Part of Pacific Standard Time (PST)
2012 Producer - Making of Chinatown, REDCAT Gallery, Los Angeles, CA — Ming Wong
2012 Performance Curator - Murals and Print, Various Small Fires, Venice Beach, CA — Fiona Connor
2012 Curator - Time Bodies, Human Resources L.A., Los Angeles, CA — Zack Sharron
2011 Co-Producer / Co-Curator - CalArts Plays Itself, PACT Zollverein, Essen, Germany
Group show
2011 Producer - The Struggle Against Ourselves, REDCAT Gallery, Los Angeles, CA — Jesse Jones
2011 Curator - Sound Structures; Listening and Seeing, Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA — Calder Quartet
2010 Assistant Curator, REDCAT Gallery, Los Angeles, CA — Clara Kim
2010 Curator - Two Faces, Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA — James Benning
2009 Co-Director - High Zero Festival, Baltimore, MD
Annual festival of experimental music
2009 Curator, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD — Tony Conrad and Dan Conrad
2008 Producer - Teenage Lontano, Whitney Biennial, New York, NY — Marina Rosenfeld
2008 Founder / Programmer - Tarantula Hill, Baltimore, MD
Artist space for art and music
2007 Curator - DEATHFOLDS, Mountain Fold Gallery, New York, NY — C.F. & Erin Womak
2007 Curator - Pupils, Mountain Fold Gallery, New York, NY — Asa Osborn & Daniel Higgs
2007 Curator - Charles St. Bridge, Baltimore, MD
Public art group show, part of Artscape
2005 Production Assistant / Performer - Emotional Orchestra, Tate Modern, London, England — Marina Rosenfeld
2005 Curator - Emotional Orchestra, The Lab, San Francisco, CA — Marina Rosenfeld
2005 Production / Exhibition Assistant - Her Noise
2004 Producer - Sheer Frost Orchestra, Whitney Museum, New York, NY — Marina Rosenfeld
2004 Organizer / Performer - Deer Raindrop, Deitch Projects, New York, NY
2001 Curator - Street Sheet, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
Group show
2001 Curator - Sound Structures, The Lab, San Francisco, CA
Performance
2001 Curator - Sound Structures, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
Performance
2001 Curator - Sound Structures, The Luggage Store, San Francisco, CA
Performance
Selected Production
2016 Die Harder
Solo LP, 38 min.; HD video, 16 min.
2014 Producer, REDCAT Gallery, Los Angeles, CA — Camel Collective
HD video and installation
2012 Making China Town — Ming Wong
Producer. HD video, installation.
2011 The Struggle Against Ourselves, REDCAT Gallery, Los Angeles, CA — Jesse Jones
Producer. 16mm film, 33 min.
2011 Archaic Smile
Director, Writer. SD video, 11 min.
2010 This Love
Director, Writer. HD video, 39 min.
2008 Proud Flesh
Director, Writer. SD video, 36 min.
2008 Proud Flesh, Ehse Records, Baltimore, MD — Jenny Graf
LP
2005 Enter the Cotton Ring, Ehse Records, Baltimore, MD — Jenny Graf
LP
Exhibitions
2019 Incantations, Mojave Sound Art Festival
Group show
2018 LANDER, PANEL LA — Lisa Radon, Chiara Giovando
Publications & Editorial Projects
2025 Editor and Contributing Writer - The Pow’r of Life is Love, Mariah Garnett, Institute of Contemporary Art Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
2025 Editor - Reservation for Irony: Native Wit and Contemporary Realities, Institute of Contemporary Art Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
2024 Contributing Writer - Ponder Soda, Chase Alexander, Institute of Contemporary Art Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
2024 Editor and Producer - HUNTER: Selections from the Personal Collections of Tony Abeyta, Institute of Contemporary Art Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
2023 Publication Director, Editor, and Contributing Writer - Then and Now, Poeh Cultural Center, Pojoaque Pueblo, NM
Published by Pojoaque Pueblo. Developed from the Poeh Cultural Center archives; conducted eighteen original oral histories.
Education
Graduate Certificate in Museum Studies, Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA), Santa Fe, NM
Indigenous Stewardship focus
MFA, California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, CA
BFA, New College of California, San Francisco, CA
Undergraduate studies at San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI)
Awards, Fellowships, & Residencies
2016 Artist Residency, Varda Artist Residency, Sausalito, CA
2015 Curator in Residence, Disjecta, Portland, OR
2014 Curators Lab Award, Fellows of Contemporary Art (FOCA), Los Angeles, CA
2013 DIVA Award, Danish Arts Council
2012 Fellowship Award, Kunsthal 44 Møen, Denmark — René Block
Teaching & Academic Appointments
2019–2020 Visiting Faculty / Graduate Mentor, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (KABK), The Hague, Netherlands
2016 Visiting Faculty / Graduate Mentor, Pacific Northwest College of Art
2015 Visiting Faculty, Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Tromsø campus, Tromsø, Norway
Site Works program
2012 Instructor - International Exchange Program, École Nationale Supérieure d'Art de Dijon and California Institute of the Arts, Dijon, France / Valencia, CA
International Boondocks