Trisha Lagaso Goldberg is Director of Programming & Engagement at the Anderson Collection at Stanford University and an independent curator based in the San Francisco Bay Area, working at the intersection of diaspora, migration, and cultural memory. She is currently curating Fault Lines: Reshaping Bay Area Figuration at the Anderson Collection, opening March 2027, and is researching and developing Noguchi x Hawai'i for the Honolulu Museum of Art (2027), co-curated with Tyler Cann.
Her recent curatorial projects include MAKIBAKA: A Living Legacy (2025), co-curated with SOMA Pilipinas at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts; Carlos Villa: Worlds in Collision (2022), a touring retrospective presented at the Newark Museum of Art, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, and San Francisco Arts Commission Main Gallery; and Lands End(2021–2022), an exhibition addressing the climate crisis. Born and raised in Hawai'i, 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 founding gallery director of thirtyninehotel in Honolulu (2006–2010), commissioning projects by artists including Carolyn Castaño, Eamon Ore-Girón, and Stephanie Syjuco.
Lagaso Goldberg is a member of Ninth Planet, a transdisciplinary art collective, and was a recipient of the Verein K Visiting Curators Vienna in 2024. She has lectured at the Rhode Island School of Design, the University of San Francisco, and San Francisco State University, and co-teaches a museum studies course at Stanford University.
