Erika Mei Chua Holum is the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Assistant Curator at the Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston. Her curatorial work and research focus on intimacies and interconnected histories within artistic practices, south-south relationships, ways of gathering, and archival methodologies. She holds an MA in Museum and Exhibition Studies from the University of Illinois Chicago, a Masters in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and is completing a PhD in Art History at Rice University.
Current and previous exhibitions include the city-responsive curatorial program Ecofictions and Understories as part of Climate Migrations with the Houston Climate Justice Museum (2023), Majority Rule: Myth-making and survival strategies from AAPI artists in Houston at Sanman Studios (2023), makibaka! Fifty Years of Filipino-American Youth Activism at Alief Art House (2021), Duro Olowu: Seeing Chicago at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2020), The Second Edition of the Lagos Biennial in Nigeria: How to build a Lagoon with Just a Bottle of Wine? (2019), and Obscura Festival of Photography in Malaysia (2018). She has completed curatorial residencies with Arquetopia Foundation in Puebla City, Mexico and KADIST San Francisco. Current and forthcoming projects at the Blaffer Art Museum include the 2024 Texas Biennal and solo exhibitions with John Guzman (2023), Reynier Leyva Novo (2024), Cian Dayrit (2024), and Ja'Tovia Gary (2025).
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