Curatorial Intensive New York Summer 2011

Yulia Aksenova was born in Russia and currently lives and works in Moscow as curator of the Center of Contemporary Culture GARAGE, where she organizes shows of both Russian and international art.

Ieva Astahovska currently lives and works in Riga, Latvia as an art scholar, critic, and curator.

Freya Chou is a Taiwan-born curator, writer, and editor.

Lucy Badrocke is an independent curator and editor based in the UK.

Veronica Cordeiro is a Brazilian artist, curator and writer based in Montevideo, Uruguay.

Shaun Dacey is from Toronto, Canada and is based currently in Vancouver, Canada as the Director/Curator of Access Gallery.

Ryan Frank is an artist and curator based in Brooklyn, a native of California and a graduate of New York University.

Birta Gudjonsdottir currently lives and works in Reykjavik, where she is a curator and an artist and a director of The Living Art Museum.

Ksenija Orelj lives and works in Rijeka, Croatia as a curator.

Cortney Lane Stell is a curator based in Denver, Colorado.

Banu Çiçek Tülü was born in Adana, Turkey and now lives and works in Barcelona, Spain.

For more than 20 years, Higgs has shown consistent ways to supports artists, artist-groups, and curators, through his writing, interviews, curating, and teaching, as well as his reinvention and on-going development of White Columns as a space for people to experiment with the presentation of new ideas and work.

Christian Rattemeyer is a curator and writer based in New York.

Chelsea Haines is a writer and curator based in New York.

Kate Fowle is Director, Arts Program at the Hearthland Foundation.

Renaud Proch is Independent Curators International (ICI)’s Executive & Artistic Director.

Frances Wu Giarratano is the Deputy Director at ICI.

Claire Gilman is Acquavella Curator and Department Head of Modern and Contemporary Drawings at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York.

Andy Horwitz is a curator and producer based in New York who currently works as Curator at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.

Kari Conte is a curator and writer, and has been the the Director of Programs and Exhibitions at the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) in New York since 2010.

Mari Spirito is Executive Director and Curator of Protocinema, a cross-cultural, site-aware art organization commissioning and presenting exhibitions and public programs in Istanbul and New York, since 2011.

Richard Birkett is a curator at Yale Union art center in Portland, Oregon.

Allison Weisberg is the founder and Executive Director of Recess Activities, Inc., an emerging contemporary artists space in New York City.

Anne Barlow is Director of Art in General, New York, where she has curated numerous exhibitions, and recently launched Art in General’s annual curatorial conference What Now? in collaboration with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics.

J. Morgan Puett is an artist whose work focuses on clothing design/textile and costume history as well as the recreation of milieux that recollect her well-worn southern rural heritage.

Mark Dion is an artist whose work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world.

Cecilia Alemani is the Donald R. Mullen, Jr. Curator and Director of High Line Art.

Kalia Brooks is a New York based curator and writer.

For the past 25 years, Regine Basha has held leadership and curatorial positions in public art galleries and arts organizations in Canada and the U.S.