Ciara Ennis

Ciara Ennis is Director of the de Saisset Museum in Santa Clara, California. From 2007 to 2024, Ennis was the director and curator of Pitzer College Art Galleries. Past exhibitions include Sadie Barnette: Legacy & Legend, Elana Mann: Instruments of Accountability, Andrea Bowers: #sweetjane, Juan Downey: Radiant Nature, Manifesto: A Moderate Proposal, and Racial Imaginary (a visual art corollary to Claudia Rankine’s book of the same name). Ennis has been a panelist/moderator/guest speaker for the American Studies Association, the International Sculpture Conference, the AAMG conference, the California Community Foundation, the Rijksakademie Amsterdam, and the Victoria and Albert Museum. She has a MA (RCA) from the Royal College of Art in Contemporary Curatorial Practice and a PhD in Cultural Studies/Museum Studies from Claremont Graduate University.