Curatorial Intensive New York Summer 2013

Jessica Baran is a poet, curator, critic and Associate Director of Curatorial and Program Development at Barrett Barrera Projects and projects+gallery.

Igor Deschamps is an independent curator, artistic director, and arts educator in the field of media and interdisciplinary arts in the Rhône-Alpes area, Lyon, France.

Heather Diack is Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at the University of Miami.

Gürsoy Doğtaş, author and cultural scholar, explores the queer politics of the feeling of hüzün – a culturally specific sort of melancholy in the Turkish-language region – in the music of the Turkish singer Zeki Müren.

Pat Elifritz is Curator of New Media and Technology at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit.

Jennifer Junkermeier is a curator and arts administrator based in Detroit, MI, and the curator for PROJJEKT, a contemporary art exhibition space in Detroit.

Ilari Laamanen is currently at the Finnish Cultural Institute in New York, curating and overseeing projects in New York and abroad.

Alejandra Labastida (Mexico City, 1979) is associate curator at MUAC (University Museum of Contemporary Art), where she’s worked since 2008.

Magda Lipska is a curator at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw.

Anne Schreiber is a scholar of Literature, Philosophy, and Economics at Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany.

Maria-Kristiina Soomre is currently an adviser on visual arts at the Estonian Ministry of Culture.

Jesse van Oosten is currently the Assistant Curator at TENT, a platform for contemporary art in Rotterdam, where she is responsible for public programs.

Kate Fowle is Director of MoMA PS1 in New York.

Bruce Altshuler is Director of the Program in Museum Studies in the Graduate School of Arts and Science at New York University.

An art advisor with more than 30 years in the industry, Todd Levin has worked with some of the world's foremost art collectors as the director of Levin Art Group.

Jenny Schlenzka is the Associate Curator at MoMA PS1, New York mainly in charge of live programming.

Reem Fadda is an independent curator based in Ramallah.

Nicholas Cullinan is Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Dóra Hegyi is project leader of tranzit.hu.

Agustin Pérez Rubio is an historian, art critic, and curator.

Holly Block’s appointment in July 2006 to the directorship of The Bronx Museum of the Arts marks her return to the institution where she served as curator from 1985-88 before gaining an international reputation as a director, curator, and arts administrator.