Guest Curator, The Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF), 2019-2020

 

Co-curated the transhistorical exhibition A Gothic Tale with contemporary artist Alexandre Singh and curator Claudia Schmuckli from the permanent collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. 

 

Film Producer, The Appointment, 2018-2019

 

Produced contemporary artist Alexandre Singh’s surreal 20-minute film, The Appointment. Exhibited at the Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museum, San Francisco, in A Gothic Tale, September 2019-June 2020; Metro Pictures Gallery, New York, October-November, 2019; Kino Der Kunst, Munich, forthcoming April 2020; Parcours, Art Basel, forthcoming June 2020.

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Nominee for Bonaldi Curatorial Prize, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea of Bergamo, GAMeC, 2015

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Nominated for Bonaldi Curatorial Prize. Exhibition Proposal: The Laugh of the Medusa, a show of nine women artists who utilize humor to address sexual politics. Featuring work by: Tala Madani, Emily Mae Smith, Margaret Lee, Jamie Isenstein, Sara Greenberger Rafferty, Casey Jane Ellison, Michele Abeles, Kate Berlant & Natalie Labriola. 

 

Critic, Artforum, 2014-2015
    

Critics' Pick writer.

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Curatorial Fellow, Center for Curatorial Leadership, 2014

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Fellow in the Center for Curatorial Leadership/Mellon Foundation Seminar in Curatorial Practice, a workshop intensive that introduces young curators to the daily challenges and strategic questions of museum practice. Mentor: Carlos Basualdo. 

 

Guest Curator, Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College, 2013-2014

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Curator of if I can’t dance to it, it’s not my revolution, an exhibition and film program that examines the political movement of anarchism through counter-cultural artistic practices from the 1960s to the present. 

 

Adjunct Curator/Lecturer, The Center for the Humanities, The Graduate Center, CUNY,  2013-2014

 

Organized Moving Images in Theory and Practice, a film studies seminar and interdisciplinary forum for faculty and students working on film and related moving image media, which meets monthly to discuss scholarly texts and workshop papers in progress. 

 

Adjunct Lecturer, Parsons, The New School for Design, 2011-2015

 

January 2014- December 2014- Art in the XXI Century: “What is Contemporary Art?” This course uses this question as a springboard to investigate the art world circuit of the last two decades. Each class will be dedicated to exploring a specific theme or medium that has been the subject of much recent discourse (e.g. the archival impulse; biennialization; digital art).

 

September 2013- December 2013- Art into Action: Socially-Engaged Practices in the 20th Century: This course focuses on the ways artists have responded to major historical events in modern history. The class begins with the early avant-garde Futurist Variety Theater, the Berlin Dadaists, and the Russian Constructivists, and concludes with a discussion of our post-9/11 visual world.

 

September 2012- May 2013- Performance and Participation in the 20th Century: This course investigates the history of Performance Art, beginning with the European avant-garde performance experiments of the 1920s, and concluding with a discussion of the recent surge of performance art exhibitions on an international scale.

 

September 2011-December 2012- Critical Reading & Writing I & II: a yearlong course that addresses the framework for analyzing art and design from critical perspectives. The class is focused on the mechanics of writing and text interpretation.

 

Writer in Residence, Art21 Blog: Open Enrollment, New York, 2013

 

Contributed exhibition reviews for the educational Art21 blog on shows in London, Paris, Venice, Zurich and Basel with a focus on how we write and remember exhibition history.

 

Performa Writing Live Resident, Performa Magazine, New York, 2012-2013

 

Contributed features on issues of live art and performance during a year long writing residency at Performa Magazine. 

 

Guest Curator, apexart, New York, 2012

 

Curator of the exhibition UNREST: Revolt against Reason, which explores the intersection of creative practice and political activism in the 21st Century. 

 

Adjunct Lecturer, Kingsborough Community College, 2011-2012

 

Taught The Visual Experience: Introduction to the Visual Arts, Past and Present, a survey course that covers the history of art from the Paleolithic age to the present. 

 

Curatorial Fellow, PERFORMA09, New York, 2008-2009

 

Assisted with the creative and logistical coordination of Not For Sale, a performance and panel discussion for PERFORMA 09; conducted research, wrote texts on participating artists, and worked with graphic designers, architects, and writers to shape the Writing Live program.

 

Curatorial Intern, Media and Performance, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2008

 

Worked with Klaus Biesenbach, Chief Curator, in the Media and Performance Department at MoMA. Principal responsibilities included exhibition-related research, writing short texts for acquisitions, cataloguing the collection in CEMS, and participating in the performance workshop Live Performance/Dead Material. 

 

Teaching Assistant, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2008

 

Assisted with the course Modern and Contemporary Art, 1945–Today, taught by Professor Tom Williams, which focused on post-World War II artistic practices. 

 

Exhibition Assistant, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, 2007-2008

 

Collaborated on all aspects of The Wizard of Oz, an exhibition featuring twenty-two international contemporary artists whose works were inspired by L. Frank Baum’s eponymous novel. Conducted research, met with collectors and artists, negotiated and processed loan requests, assisted with the selection of artworks, and contributed texts to the exhibition catalogue. 

 

Curatorial Intern, Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, 2007-2008    

 

Curated Alternative Requirements 2008: Bay Area Student Experimental Film Festival, a 60-minute program of short experimental Bay Area films. 

 

Exhibition Intern, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, 2007

 

Assisted curators and artists in organizing the following exhibitions: Tunga: Alchemy of Words; Peter Young; Jim Shaw: A Brief History of the Donner Party; Organizing Chaos; Adam Putnam; Orpheus Selection: In Search of Darkness; Jack Whitten; and Cinema Cavern.