2022 Curatorial Forum
Koyo Kouoh was the founding Artistic Director of RAW Material Company in Dakar, Senegal, and Chief Curator and Executive Director of Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town, South Africa.
Amy Sadao is an independent curator and consultant focused on the strategic development of contemporary art and community-based organizations.
Dana Kopel is a writer, editor, and union organizer living in New York.
Susanna V. Temkin is Senior 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.
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.
Ciara Ennis is Director of the de Saisset Museum in Santa Clara, California.
David Evans Frantz is a curator based in Los Angeles.
Marcela Guerrero is the DeMartini Family Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Ksenya Gurshtein is an independent curator and writer in Wichita, Kansas.
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 and head curator of UNLV's Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art.
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 is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University, as well as an independent curator, arts writer and consultant.
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 Waldrop (née Reese) is Director and Curator of the Athenaeum and the Dodd Galleries at the University of Georgia (UGA).
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.
About EXPO CHICAGO
EXPO CHICAGO, The International Exposition of Contemporary & Modern Art features leading international galleries alongside one of the highest quality platforms for contemporary art and culture. Hosted within historic Navy Pier’s Festival Hall, EXPO CHICAGO presents a diverse program, including /Dialogues (presented in partnership with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago) and Exchange by Northern Trust, an unrivaled talks program for both public and VIP audiences; IN/SITU, dynamic on-site installations highlighting large-scale sculpture, film, and site-specific work; and major public art initiatives, including IN/SITU Outside, public art installed throughout Chicago Park District locations, and OVERRIDE | A Billboard Project, a curated selection of international artists throughout the city’s digital billboard network. The EXPO CHICAGO program also features an unprecedented commitment to host curatorial initiatives during the exposition, including the Curatorial Forum in partnership with Independent Curators International (ICI), and the Curatorial Exchange, which partners with foreign agencies and consulates to expand the exposition’s global reach.
Credits
Support for the 2022 Curatorial Forum is provided by EXPO CHICAGO, presenting sponsor 21c Hotel Museum; generous grants from the Joyce Foundation, Smart Family Foundation, and Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation; and with additional support from UAP | Urban Art Projects, and Terry Dowd, Inc.