Dean Daderko

Dean Daderko (they/them) is the Ferring Foundation Chief Curator at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. As Curator at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston from 2010-2020, they presented exhibitions with LaToya Ruby Frazier, Joan Jonas and Gina Pane, Paul Ramírez Jonas, Nicolas Moufarrege, Wu Tsang and Fred Moten, Haegue Yang and others, often accompanied by new commissions. In 2008 and 2020, Daderko received Curatorial Research Fellowships from Étant donnés Contemporary Art. Their practice is guided by their queer and feminist ethics.