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); Art Since the 1960s: California Experiments (2007-2008), and co-curated the 2006 California Biennial. Previously, Moss 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. She also teaches in the Graduate Public Practice program at Otis College of Art and Design and in the MA program in Art and Curatorial Practice at 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 California.