David Evans Frantz

David Evans Frantz is a curator based in Los Angeles. He is Executive Director of the Claire Falkenstein Foundation. Frantz has held curatorial positions at the Palm Springs Art Museum, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, and ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at the USC Libraries. His curatorial projects include Millie Wilson: The Museum of Lesbian Dreams at the Krannert Art Museum (2024–ongoing); Teddy Sandoval and the Butch Gardens School of Art, co-curated with C. Ondine Chavoya for the Vincent Price Art Museum, the Williams College Museum of Art, and Independent Curators International (ICI) (2023–ongoing); and Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A., co-curated with C. Ondine Chavoya for ONE Archives at the USC Libraries and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2017; toured by ICI, 2018–22). Frantz is also co-editor, with Christina Linden and Chris E. Vargas, of Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects (Hirmer, 2023), a project of the Museum of Trans Hirstory & Art (MOTHA).