2025 Curatorial Forum

Dr. Kelli Morgan is the founding Executive Director & CEO of These Museum Streets and Black Artists Archive.

Albert Heta (b. Prishtina) is an artist, designer, and co-founder of Stacion – Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina.

Dr. Romi Crawford is a professor, writer, curator, and founder of The New Art School Modality.

Renan Laru-an is an independent curator and theorist, and formerly Artistic Director of Savvy Contemporary.

Camila Marambio Bunster is Curator of New Perspectives at Para La Naturaleza in Borikén, Puerto Rico.

Camille Gallogly Bacon is a Chicago-based writer and the co-Editor-in-Chief of Jupiter Magazine.

Alana Hernandez is Senior Curator at the ASU Art Museum.

Alyssa Martinez is an independent artist, cultural producer, and arts administrator, and program director at WILD YAMS: Black Mother Artist Residency. 

Alisha Kerlin is the executive director and head curator of UNLV's Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art.

Anne Collins Smith is Chief Curator at the New Orleans Museum of Art.

Bana Kattan is a researcher and curator with experience working in the Arab world and United States, and is currently the Pamela Alper Associate Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.

Ceci Moss serves as the Director and Chief Curator of the Mandeville Art Gallery at UC San Diego.

Claire Gilman recently joined the Morgan Library and Museum as Aquavella Curator and Department Head of Modern and Contemporary Drawings.

Elisabeth Sherman is the Senior Curator and Director of Exhibitions and Collections at the International Center of Photography (ICP).

Nnaemeka (Emeka) Ekwelum is a transnational and transdisciplinary researcher, curator and educator from Boston, MA.

Frauke V. Josenhans is Curator at the Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University, Houston, TX.

Jack Schneider is Assistant Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.

Jared Quinton is the Emily Hall Tremaine Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art.

Jessica Bell Brown is Executive Director of the Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Joanna Szupinska is senior curator at UCR ARTS: California Museum of Photography (CMP) and Culver Center of the Arts.

Julieta González is Head of Exhibitions at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio and Curator-at-large for Modern and Contemporary Art at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo.

Jungmin Cho, based in Seoul and New York, is the founder and director of WHITE NOISE.

Kalaija Mallery is an artist, leader, and the Executive and Artistic Director of The Luminary, a mid-sized non-profit art center in St. Louis, MO.

Karen Comer Lowe serves as the Curator in Residence at the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art.

Kathleen Ash-Milby is Curator of Native American Art at the Portland Art Museum, where since 2019 she has expanded the Museum’s engagement with Indigenous artists.

Laura Augusta is a U.S.-born curator and writer working between the U.S. and Central America.

Laura Mott is the Chief Curator at the Cranbrook Art Museum in Bloomfield Hills, MI.

Margarita Lila Rosa is a Harlem-based public scholar and ​independent curator specializing in Afro-Latinx, Latinx, and Black ​Atlantic history and contemporary art.

Patricia Lee Daigle is Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art.

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.

Raphael Fonseca works as a curator of modern and contemporary Latin American art at the Denver Art Museum.

Rian Crane is an independent curator, organizer, and post-disciplinary performance artist.

Robin K. Williams is Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the University of Michigan Museum of Art.

Robyn Farrell is Senior Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs at The Kitchen in New York.

Sam Adams is the Ellen Johnson '33 Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College.

TK Smith is an Atlanta-based curator, writer, and cultural historian.

Victoria Sung is the Phyllis C. Wattis Senior Curator at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.

Vivian Crockett is the Allen and Lola Goldring Curator at the New Museum.

Wisdom Baty (she/her/hers) is an artist, mother/caretaker, curator, and arts administrator.

Yina Jiménez Suriel is an independent curator and researcher and Associate Editor for Contemporary And (C&).