Alaina Claire Feldman is a curator, writer, professor and the inaugural Chief Curator and Senior Director of Curatorial Engagement at the University of California, Irvine’s Langson Orange County Museum of Art. In 2025, she co‑curated Kim Contemporary Art Centre’s annual arts festival in Riga, Latvia, and served as guest curator for the inaugural exhibition at the new Taichung Art Museum, Taiwan.
She has curated dozens of exhibitions at museums around the world. Her writing on art and political ecology has appeared in Afterall, Art Asia Pacific, Contemporary&, e‑flux journal, Flash Art, PARSE, Texte zur Kunst, and in numerous catalogues and anthologies. Her recent books include Aura Rosenberg: What Is Psychedelic (CUNY and Pioneer Works, 2023); Taxonomies of Power: Photographic Encounters at the State Silk Museum, Tbilisi (CUNY and State Silk Museum, 2024); and Moholy‑Nagy: Radiant Exposure (71 Contemporary, 2024).
From 2018 to 2024, Feldman served as Director and Curator of Mishkin Gallery at the City University of New York (CUNY) and taught in Fine and Performing Arts at Baruch College and Macaulay Honors College. She holds degrees in Art History and Visual Studies from Pratt Institute and in Social and Environmental Justice Studies from the CUNY Graduate Center. From 2011 to 2018, she was Director of Exhibitions at Independent Curators International (ICI). With Macarena Gómez‑Barris, she received a 2022 Curatorial Research Fellowship from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. She is an academic advisor at TheCube, Taipei, and an international advisor at Casa São Roque, Porto.
