Participants in the 2023 Coast Contemporary Research Journey & Assembly

MEET THE PARTICIPANTS:

Constanza Valenzuela and Jack Radley, Co-Founders, ACOMPI

Constanza Valenzuela and Jack Radley (Curatorial Seminar participants, 2021) are co-founders of ACOMPI, a global curatorial project based in New York City. ACOMPI is a global curatorial project based in New York City. ACOMPI comes from the Spanish word acompañado, meaning “in company.” ACOMPI foregrounds interdisciplinary practice and collaboration and serves as a youth-oriented, community-ingrained platform to expand the intersection of independent curatorial practice and site-responsive public engagement. ACOMPI celebrates narratives of immigrants, youths, and artists working in interdisciplinary means not satiated or supported by the current market.

Constanza Valenzuela (Quito, Ecuador b. 1995)  is a curator and cultural worker dedicated to the representation of immigrant and Latine/X artists. Valenzuela is currently the Curatorial & Exhibitions Assistant at the High Line in New York City. The High Line is committed to showing curated exhibitions of contemporary public art that directly engage with cultural, social, and political currents. Constanza oversees the production and installation of public art installments on the High Line, along with adjacent programming. Previously, Constanza worked as the Programming Assistant for Creative Time, a public arts non-profit organization also in New York City. Constanza has a MA in Visual Arts Administration from New York University (2019), and a BFA in Sculpture from Pratt Institute (2017). 

Jack Radley is an editor, writer, and independent curator based in Brooklyn, NY. His writing has been published in Art Papers, Berlin Art Link, Boston Art Review, Cultured, Hyperallergic, and Temporary Art Review, among others. Recent projects include Money Has No Smell (Ignacio Gatica, Mariana Parisca, Gabriella Torres-Ferrer) and Shanzhai Lyric: Canal Street Research Association, as well as solo exhibitions by Craig Jun Li, Mateo Arciniegas Huertas, and Diana Sofia Lozano. Their projects have been featured in The New York Times, Artforum, New York Magazine, Hyperallergic, The Brooklyn Rail, Elephant, artnet, and The Creative Independent.

Jeanne Gerrity, Interim Director, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts

Jeanne Gerrity (Curatorial Intensive alum, New York Fall 2014) is a curator, writer, and editor. She currently serves as the Interim Director at the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco, where she has been the Deputy Director & Head of Publications for the past seven years. Prior to the Wattis, she held positions at the Contemporary Jewish Museum and Southern Exposure in San Francisco, and Smack Mellon and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council in New York. Jeanne is the founding co-editor of A Series of Open Questions and co-editor of Dodie Bellamy is on our mind and Cecilia Vicuña: Word Weapons. She writes for Artforum, Frieze, and Art Agenda among other magazines, as well as contributing to museum and gallery catalogs. She has curated solo and group exhibitions in California and New York, as well as curating performances, screenings, conversations, and other public programs. Her current work focuses on the role of artists in creating a sustainable future, where humans, nature, and technology can coexist.