Karen Moss is adjunct curator at Orange County Museum of Art, where she has curated exhibitions including 15 Minutes of Fame: Photographs from Ansel Adams to Andy Warhol (2010); Disorderly Conduct Recent Art in Tumultuous Times (2009) and Art Since the 1960s: California Experiments (2007-2008) and co-curated the 2006 California Biennial. Moss previously held curatorial positions at the San Francisco Art institute, Walker Art Center, Santa Monica Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Moss teaches art history and curatorial practice in graduate programs at Otis College of Art and Design and USC Roski School of Fine Arts.
State of Mind is a deep investigation of seminal conceptual and related avant-garde activities in the late 1960s and early 1970s and the critical interchange between artists living in the state.