David Evans Frantz is a curator based in Los Angeles. He is Executive Director of the Claire Falkenstein Foundation and Curator-at-Large at the Palm Springs Art Museum, where he oversees the Q+ Art initiative on LGBTQ art history. His curatorial projects include Millie Wilson: The Museum of Lesbian Dreams at the Krannert Art Museum (2024); Teddy Sandoval and the Butch Gardens School of Art, co-curated with C. Ondine Chavoya for the Vincent Price Art Museum, Williams College Museum of Art, and Independent Curators International (ICI) (2023–ongoing); and Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A., co-curated with C. Ondine Chavoya for ONE Archives at the USC Libraries and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2017; toured by ICI, 2018–22). Frantz is co-editor with Christina Linden and Chris E. Vargas of Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects (Hirmer, 2023), a project of the Museum of Trans Hirstory & Art (MOTHA).
