Trisha Lagaso Goldberg (USA) is an educator, public art consultant, and independent curator who lives and works between the San Francisco Bay Area and the Hawaiian island of O‘ahu. Her curatorial practice amplifies the voices of artists historically excluded from dominant narratives, including Indigenous peoples, people of color, and members of queer and trans communities. She brings expertise in Asian and Pacific Islander diasporas to projects that intersect art history, contemporary practice, and anti-colonial frameworks.
Born and raised in Hawai‘i and shaped by two decades in San Francisco, Lagaso Goldberg piloted the commissioned works branch of the Hawai‘i State Foundation on Culture and the Arts’ public art program (2006–2018) and served as the founding gallery director of thirtyninehotel in Honolulu (2006–2010), commissioning projects by artists such as Carolyn Castaño, Eamon Ore-Giron, and Stephanie Syjuco. Her projects include Lands End (2021–2022), a major exhibition confronting the ongoing climate crisis, and Carlos Villa: Worlds in Collision (2022), a touring retrospective presented at the Newark Museum of Art, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, and the San Francisco Arts Commission Main Gallery.
She is currently the Director of Programming & Engagement at the Anderson Collection at Stanford University and a member of Ninth Planet, a transdisciplinary contemporary art collective that recently organized the Lagrange Point exhibition for /(Slash) in San Francisco. Lagaso Goldberg was commissioned by Independent Curators International and the Fine Arts Gallery at San Francisco State University to develop the traveling exhibition Remittance (2026), and she is researching and developing Noguchi + Hawai‘i for the Honolulu Museum of Art (2027).
In addition to her curatorial work, Lagaso Goldberg is dedicated to mentorship and teaching. She has lectured at the Rhode Island School of Design, the University of San Francisco, and San Francisco State University, and she co-teaches a course in museum studies at Stanford University.
