2022 Curatorial Forum

Amy Sadao is an independent curator and consultant focused on the strategic development of contemporary art and community-based organizations.

Allison Glenn is a New York-based curator and writer focusing on the intersection of art and public space,
through public art and special projects, biennials, and major new commissions by a wide range of
contemporary artists.

Dana Kopel is a writer, editor, and union organizer living in New York.

Susanna V. Temkin is Curator at El Museo del Barrio.

Rachel Adams is the Chief Curator and Director of Programs at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts.

Laura Allred Hurtado is the Executive Director of the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art.

Amara Antilla is an independent curator based in Washington DC.

Rehema C. Barber is the Chief Curator for the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts (KIA).

Natasha Becker is Curator of African Art at the de Young Museum, San Francisco.

Ionit Behar is the Assistant Curator at DePaul Art Museum (DPAM), Chicago, and the co-founder and co-director of BeharXSchachman, a Chicago based curatorial and exhibition design agency.

Natalie Bell is Curator at the MIT List Visual Arts Center

Orianna Cacchione’s curatorial practice is committed to expanding the canon of contemporary art to respond to the global circulations of art and ideas.

Erin Dziedzic is director of curatorial affairs at Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri.

Since 2007, Ciara Ennis has taught at and been director and curator of Pitzer College Art Galleries.

David Evans Frantz is a curator based in Los Angeles.

Allison Glenn is a New York-based curator and writer focusing on the intersection of art and public space,
through public art and special projects, biennials, and major new commissions by a wide range of
contemporary artists.

Marcela Guerrero is the DeMartini Family Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Ksenya Gurshtein is the Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University.

Craig Hadley serves as the Executive Director and Chief Curator of the Dennos Museum Center at Northwestern Michigan College.

Lauren Hinkson is the Associate Curator, Collections at the Guggenheim Museum in New York.

Henriette Huldisch is currently Chief Curator and Head of Curatorial Affairs at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.

Simon Kelly is Curator and Head of Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Saint Louis Art Museum.

Alisha Kerlin is the Executive Director of the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Amy L. Powell is Curator of Campus Arts Research at Krannert Art Museum at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Tricia Laughlin Bloom is Curator of American Art at the Newark Museum of Art, Newark NJ.

Catharina Manchanda is the Jon and Mary Shirley Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Seattle Art Museum.

Cesáreo Moreno (Chicago, IL) has been with the National Museum of Mexican Art since 1992. He has been the Visual Arts Director since 1995, and was named the museum’s first full time Chief Curator in 2004.

Heather Nickels joined the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art (MBMA) in August 2019 as the Joyce Blackmon Curatorial Fellow of African American Art and Art of the African Diaspora.

Jessica O’Hearn is the Executive Director of the Brookline Arts Center in Brookline, Massachusetts.

María Elena Ortiz is Curator at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX.

Liz Park is Richard Armstrong Curator of Contemporary Art at Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh.

Allison Quinn is Director of Exhibitions at the Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago IL.

Rachel Reese Waldrop is Director and Curator of the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC), the first ICA in the state of TN.

Mark Scala is the chief curator at the Frist Art Museum.

Lauren Schell Dickens is senior curator at the San José Museum of Art.

Dr. Emily Stamey is Curator and Head of Exhibitions at the Weatherspoon Art Museum at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.

Jordan Stein is Curator at Kadist, San Francisco.

Jodi Throckmorton is Chief Curator at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center.