Constance M Lewallen

Constance M. Lewallen (1939-2022) was a prolific curator who specialized in conceptual art and worked with many California artists. She was an adjunct curator at the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive where she had worked for more than three decades. She curated many major exhibitions, including The Dream of the Audience: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1951-1982) in 2001; Everything Matters: Paul Kos, a Retrospective in 2003; Ant Farm, 1968-1978 in 2004; A Rose Has No Teeth: Bruce Nauman in the 1960s in 2007, all of which toured nationally and internationally and were accompanied by catalogues. In 2009, she curated Allen Ruppersberg: You and Me or the Art of Give and Take for the Santa Monica Museum of Art.