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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

OTIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN

Ø Interim Director of Exhibitions and Galleries (as of July 2014) Overseeing operations and programs for the Ben Maltz Gallery including Jorge and Lucy Orta’s Art / Life / Water exhibition and artists’ residency, Talking to Action: Decolonizing Experiments in Art from the Americas, an exhibition/symposium for the Getty’s PST Los Angeles/Latin America and other upcoming projects. Ø Senior Lecturer (2008 - present) Teach courses in the Graduate Public Practice MFA program including Histories and Strategies of Public Art and Production Studio Critique Seminars. Conduct regular studio visits and advise on final MFA exhibition. While Chair Suzanne Lacy was on sabbatical, served as Acting Chair for the GPP MFA program.

ORANGE COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART, 2003 - 2012

Ø Adjunct Curator (August 2010 - December 2012) Curated State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970, an exhibition of conceptual art and other new genres in conjunction with the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time Initiative. Wrote successful proposals for a $175,000 research grant and a $225,000 implementation grant for presentations of the exhibition at Orange County Museum of Art and the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, 2011-2012, followed by a 2-year tour to the Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver; SITE Santa Fe; Bronx Museum of the Arts and the Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago. The accompanying fully illustrated scholarly book was published by the University of California Press. Also curated 50 Years Forward, a photographic exhibition of OCMA’s institutional, exhibition and collection history in conjunction with the museum’s 50th anniversary. Ø Deputy Director of Exhibitions and Programs (2007 - 2010) Oversaw and managed curatorial, registrar/collections, education and public programs departments, curated exhibitions, developed exhibition touring schedules; organized public and interpretive programs. Oversaw the Board Collections Committee and worked with the director on rigorous acquisitions program. As part of Executive team, developed, implemented, and monitored the museum’s five-year Strategic Plan. Worked with Director and Development Department on major grants and fundraising initiatives; cultivating trustees, collectors, donors, and museum support groups. Functioned as a public advocate for the museum with colleagues in the field, community members, and the general public. Ø Curator of Collections and Director of Education and Public Programs (2005 - 2007) As Curator of Collections oversaw OCMA’s collection archive and exhibitions; organized three major installations, two special exhibitions and three projects for the Orange Lounge media gallery. Assisted with new acquisitions and supervised archiving, research and writing on 200+ collection. As Director of Education and Public Programs oversaw budgets, fundraising, programs and staff for Family Programs, School and Tour Programs and Public and Interpretive Programs including six full-time staff and six interns. Directly responsible for organizing all public and interpretive programs for OCMA exhibitions. Ø Consulting Curator and Strategic Planning Consultant (2003 - 2004) Consulted on OCMA’s Strategic Plan for 2003-2008, then implemented re-organization of Education and Public Programs department. Conceptualized and developed new public programs for special exhibitions; wrote fundraising initiatives for the permanent collection, raised a $200,000 Getty Foundation Grant and a $100,000 award from the Henry Luce Foundation for interpretive programs and archival research.

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SAN FRANCISCO ART INSTITUTE, 1999 - 2004

Ø Director of Exhibitions and Public Programs (1999 - 2001) Ø Vice President of Public Programs (2002 - 2004) Initiated and oversaw the Exhibitions and Public Programs division, including three distinct areas: exhibitions, visiting artists projects and public programs. As part of Senior Management Team, participated in long-range and strategic-planning for academic and public programs, integrated marketing, visiting artists’ work group, and other institution-wide initiatives. Specific duties included curating exhibitions and working with guest curators; managing artists’ residencies and projects; organizing public lectures, panels and symposia, cultivating and maintaining relationships with affiliated organizations Managed division budget ranging from $400,000 to $800,000; worked with other SFAI staff on fundraising, public relations and publications. Supervised three regular Exhibitions and Public Programs staff and eight student assistants. Following the arrival of new president and institutional re-organization in 2003, joined SFAI faculty teaching art history and critical studies courses and was responsible for developing the pilot courses and curriculum for a new M.A. degree in Curatorial Studies.

WALKER ART CENTER, 1992 - 1998

Ø Director, Education and Community Programs (1997 - 1998) As Director, responsible for the operation and programs of five divisions of the Education and Community Programs, including Community and Family Programs, Public and Interpretive Programs, Schools and Tour Programs and Teen Programs. Supervised full-time staff of twelve and managed a budget of more than $1,000,000. Organized Public and Interpretive Programs division including panels, symposia, lectures, workshops, classes and exhibitions for the Anderson Window Gallery, a focus gallery in the permanent collection. Collaborated with curators in Visual Arts, Film/Video and Performing Arts departments on related programs, residencies and interpretive materials. Managed education areas of large-scale initiatives (Lila Wallace and Pew Trust), developed and wrote education department grants and identified new fundraising strategies. Worked closely with other staff in New Media, Public Relations and Marketing, Membership and Development. Ø Associate Curator of Education and Public Programs (1995 - 1996) As the Associate Curator for Education and Public Programs, developed and managed a broad base of education and public programs for children, families, teens and adults; originated and presented interdisciplinary events including classes, lectures, readings, symposia and conferences. Worked with curators on permanent collection installations, supervised writing editing and production of interpretive materials; assisted in research and development of new media and technologies for Walker's education and exhibition programs. Ø Program Consultant for Exhibition and Public Programs (1992 - 1993) Participated as an art historical consultant for grant-writing, catalogue research and opening week-end public programs in conjunction with In the Spirit of Fluxus exhibition. Consulted on public programs and opening weekend events when the exhibition later traveled to the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.

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SANTA MONICA MUSEUM OF ART, 1989 - 1995

Ø Curatorial and Program Consultant (1992 - 1995) Curated exhibitions wrote for publications and advised on Santa Monica Museum of Art programs. Edited catalogues; planned education programs; wrote grant proposals and coordinated national and international travel of exhibitions. Ø Director of Programs (1989 - 1992) As Museum’s first Director of Programs, assumed curatorial functions for the museum with director and artist advisory committee; managed artists' projects; planned public programs, wrote and edited museum publications and grants; researched future exhibitions; supervised staff and interns.

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, LOS ANGELES, 1985 - 1987

Ø Adjunct Assistant Curator, Media and Performing Arts (1985 - 1987) Worked with Curator of Media and Performing Arts, Julie Lazar, on programs, special events and fundraising. Conceived and wrote proposals for exhibitions, performances, grant narratives, publications and press, coordinated workshops for visiting artists; supervised curatorial research and staff interns. Ø Marketing and Program Consultant, Territory of Art Radio Series (1985 - 1986) Consulted on MOCA's ongoing public radio series. Developed and implemented a series marketing plan; wrote press materials and made special press contacts, served as department liaison to radio stations and public broadcasting networks.

SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF ART, 1982 - 1984

Ø Assistant Curator of Exhibitions (1984 - 1985) Coordinator for all SBMA exhibitions, including guest-curated and traveling exhibitions. Maintained master schedule for exhibition and gallery spaces; managed budgets and program documentation, gave public lectures. Project coordinator for all contemporary art programs, performances, panel discussions and special events. Ø Curatorial Assistant for Exhibitions (1982 - 1984) Assisted Curator of Modern Art with all aspects of exhibition administration; managed department budgets; exhibition installation and design; curatorial research and documentation.

SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, 1980 - 1981

Ø Curatorial and Research Assistant (1980 - 1981) Worked with chief curator of the Photography Van Deren Coke, on developing an archival system for extended loan collection of l9th and 20th century photography. Compiled research, identified and documented works for permanent collection catalogue; assistant editor for exhibition catalogues.

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CONSULTING PROJECTS, 1989 - PRESENT

Ø Curatorial and educational programming for museums: Clients include Contemporary Art Museum, Houston; Orange County Museum of Art; Santa Monica Museum of Art and Walker Art Center.

Ø Panelist or Consultant to Foundations or Grant-Making organizations: Consultant to the David Bermant Foundation; Creative Capital Foundation; Fellows of Contemporary Art; Los Angles Getty Foundation and the United States Artists Foundation.

Ø Public Art Advisory Committees and Panels: City of Pasadena, City of San Jose, City of Santa Monica Public Art Committee; Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles County Arts Commission, Los Angeles Metropolitan Authority, and University of California, Irvine Public Art Committee.

Ø Editor/Essayist, LACE 10 Years Documented, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, (1987 - 1988) In charge of archival research, writing and editing for a 112-page book about LACE's first decade of programs and services. Supervised interns, managed budget, and prepared grant narratives for the document.

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

EDUCATION

University of Southern California M.A. in Art History (1990) and Ph.D. candidate Concentration in 20th Century art, with emphasis on post-war American art Dissertation: Fluxus and Intermedia in California M.A. thesis: Representations of Lucretia in Sixteenth Century Germany

University of California, Berkeley, M.A. program in History of Art (1977 - 1981) Concentration in 20th century and Renaissance art

University of California, Santa Cruz, B.A. in Studio Art/Art History with Honors (1977) Concentration in modern and medieval art Thesis: Thirteenth Century Stained Glass at Chartres

INTERNSHIPS

Ø Whitney Independent Study Program, Art History and Museum Studies/ Public Lecturer (1979 - 81) With other interns, oversaw operation of Downtown Whitney Branch; curated exhibitions Artists by Artists, Painting in Relief and Architecture of Lower Manhattan, and worked on public projects Downtown Drive-In and Art on the Beach, co-sponsored with Creative Time.

Ø Curatorial Intern, University Art Museum, Berkeley (1978 - 1979) As intern for Chief Curator, David Ross, worked on exhibitions and performance art events including the first weekend series in a museum to screen new experimental video, production assistance on Ring by Terry Allen and Jo Harvey Allen and other media arts projects.

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ACADEMIC BACKGROUND, CONTINUED

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

2003 Curator’s grant, Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles 1995 President Steven B. Sample Fellowship, USC Leadership Institute 1994 Independent Curator's Grant, Pasadena Art Alliance 1993 Curator’s grant, Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles 1992 J. Paul Getty Award, USC School of Fine Arts 1991 Dissertation Travel Fellowship, USC School of Fine Arts 1988 J. Paul Getty Award, USC School of Fine Arts 1986 J. Paul Getty Award, USC School of Fine Arts 1979 Helena Rubenstein Fellowship, Whitney Museum of American Art

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

OTIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN, LOS ANGELES Ø Adjunct Faculty, Art Department (1992 - 1995) Taught undergraduate lecture course on Fluxus, Happenings and Performance Art and graduate MFA seminars in contemporary art history and criticism.

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Ø Adjunct Faculty, Roski School of Fine Art and Design, (1989 & 1995; 2005 - present) Teach graduate seminars in art history, contemporary theory and curatorial practice for the M.A. Program in Art and Curatorial Practices in the Public Sphere; adviser on M.A. theses. In previous years taught undergraduate art history survey, upper division lectures; graduate seminars in art history and theory for MFA and MA programs.

CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, LONG BEACH Ø Adjunct Faculty, School of the Arts (2008, 2011 & 2014) Currently teaching Art History Methodologies and Writing course for art history and museum studies students. In previous years have taught an undergraduate/graduate art history lecture course on Exhibition and Museum Histories; undergraduate and graduate lecture courses on Art Since 1945 and the Interdisciplinary Critique Seminar for the MFA program.

SAN FRANCISCO ART INSTITUTE Ø Visiting Faculty, San Francisco Art Institute (2001 - 2004) Taught undergraduate courses and graduate seminars in art history and critical studies including Art Meets Life: Social Interaction & Relational Aesthetics. Developed and taught pilot graduate curriculum in Professional Practices for the Artist and Curatorial Studies.

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EXHIBITIONS, ARTISTS PROJECTS AND PUBLIC PROGRAMS

2014 REPLAY (working title), an exhibition in process co-curated with Constance Lewallen, focused on contemporary artists who re-interpret, re-enact or re-image iconic visual art, performances, media and popular culture from the 1960s and 1970s. Including both gallery work, site-specific projects live re- enactments, several venues and sites are currently under consideration.

2012 Radio-Break, public project, Los Angeles (with USC Roski School of Fine Arts Curatorial M.A. graduates) Project director for a twelve site-specific artworks transmitted through low-power radio and/or performed live events in public sites from East Los Angeles to the Mid-Wilshire district. Ranging from spoken word and mock radio drama to ambient sounds and music, the artists included: Brandon LaBelle, Elana Mann, Vanessa Place, Lucy Raven, Pedro Reyes, Alyce Santoro, David Schafer, Brendan Threadgill Lincoln Tobier, Two-Headed Dog, Arnoldo Vargas and Richard T. Walker.

Portable Parks IV with Bonnie Sherk and Consuming Nature, with Otis Graduate Public Practice Oversaw the re-imagining of her Portable Parks I-III, Bonnie Sherk’s Portable Park IV that was temporarily installed at Santa Monica Place mall along with Consuming Nature, a series of projects by the Otis MFA artists, all addressing environmental issues and unveiling different aspects of consumer culture.

ORANGE COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART (2004 - 2012)

2012 - 50 Years Forward, a photographic exhibition of the OCMA’s history of in conjunction with the celebration of the museum’s 50th anniversary.

2011- State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970, co-curated with Constance Lewallen as part 2012 of the Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time initiative. Introduction and curatorial essay in book published by UC Press, 2011.

2010 2010 California Biennial Artist Residency Projects with Andy Kolar, Finishing School and Los Angeles Urban Rangers.

15 Minutes of Fame: Portraits from Ansel Adams to Andy Warhol New Art for a New Century: Contemporary Acquisitions, 2000-2010. Curator and writer for brochures. Sunday Salons: Contemporary Photography with JoAnn Callis, Eileen Cowin, and Kim Yasuda Conversations with Critics: Michael Ned Holte with Mark Flores, Carter Mull and Amanda Ross-Ho and Chris Miles with Sean Duffy, and Mindy Shapero.

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ORANGE COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART, CONTINUED

2009 Moving Image: Scan to Screen, Pixel to Projection, survey of OCMA video collection, curator and writer for brochure.

Illumination: The Paintings of Georgia O’Keeffe, Agnes Pelton, Agnes Martin and Florence Pierce. Curator and writer for introductory essay in book published by Merrell Publishers, London

2008 2008 California Biennial Artist Residency Projects Julio Cesar Morales; Kara Tanaka, Jedediah Caesar, Mary Kelly, Shana Lutker and Ruben Ortiz-Torres; Interview with Ortiz-Torres in I Thought California Would be Different: 2008 California Biennial, book published by OCMA.

Sunday Salons for 2008 Biennial: Andrea Bowers, Sam Durant and Marco ERRE Ramirez; Mary Kelly, Shan Lutker and Anna Sew Hoy; Edgar Arceneaux and Rodney McMillian, Jed Caesar, Daniel Martinez, Marco Rios and Kara Tanaka.

Disorderly Conduct: Recent Art in Tumultuous Times (Pilar Alabarracin, Karen Finley, Pearl Hsiung, Glenn Kaino, Martin Kersels, Daniel Martinez, and Robin Rhode, Curator’s introduction in brochure published by OCMA.

Disorderly Conduct at the Haudenschild Garage, La Jolla, CA Daniel Martinez artist lecture and Glenn Kaino’s Burning Boards, a chess performance using candles originally performed at Whitney Museum.

The Imaginary 20th Century, OCMA Orange Lounge, project director and organizer of panel discussion with Norman Klein, Margo Bistis and Andre Kratky.

2007 Art Since the 1960s: California Experiments, curator and writer for brochure Chris Burden: A Tale of Two Cities, Imaging and Imagining California Joseph Grigely, OCMA, Newport Beach, co-curator Bruce and Norman Yonemoto, Orange Lounge, curator and writer for brochure Something About Mary, organizer of panel discussion with Mary Heilmann, critic Johanna Burton and artists Kim Fisher, Monique Prieto and Mary Weatherford

Birth of the Cool: California Art, Design and Culture at Mid-Century panel with Liz Armstrong, Beatriz Colomina, Dave Hickey, and Tom Hine

Art Since the 1960s, moderator for opening panel with Rachel Lachowicz, Tom Marioni, Daniel Martinez and Paul McCarthy

New Art from Orange County, organizer of panel with Chris Burden, Robert Irwin, Phyllis Lutjeans, Alexis Smith, Barbara Smith

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ORANGE COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART, CONTINUED

2007 Kutlug Ataman: Paradise, opening day dialogue with Ataman, Aimee Chang and Norman Klein Artists’ talks with Kim Abeles, Karen Finley, Andrea Fraser George Herms, Tom La Duke, Kori Newkirk, Al Ruppersberg, Alexis Smith, Mary Woronov, Jeffrey Vallance, Bruce Yonemoto

2006 2006 California Biennial, co-curator exhibition and artist residencies. Writer of introduction and curatorial essay in book. Organized 2006 CA Biennial panel with Liz Armstrong, Rita Gonzalez, Glen Helfand and Jan Tumlir artists talks with Scoli Acosta, Walead Besthy, Shana Lutker, Arturo Romo and Goody B. Wiseman; artists’ residencies with Scoli Acosta, Kate Pocrass, My Barbarian, and Mario Ybarra.

2005- Collection Histories/Collective Memories: California Modern, co-curated with Elizabeth Armstrong, and wrote curator’s introductions for brochures.

2004 Beautiful Losers’ curators panel with Aaron Rose and Christian Stryker California Modern: A Conversation with Ed Ruscha. Joe Goode and Irving Blum About Ferus Gallery 2004 California Biennial opening day symposium Post-Suburbia with Matthew Coolidge, Daniel Martinez, and ValDez (Jeffrey Inaba and Peter Zellner) Gallery talks by Libby Black, Mark Bradford, Kim Fisher, Michelle Lopez, Mindy Shapero, Josephine Taylor.

SAN FRANCISCO ART INSTITUTE (1999 – 2004)

2004 Topographies, curator for group exhibition and essayist for book about artists whose practices utilize strategies of mapping and cartography. Funded by 2004 Curator’s Award, Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, opened at San Francisco Art Institute and traveled to Pasadena Museum of California Art.

Tournesol Award Exhibition: Clare Rojas; curator and writer for brochure. McBean Lecture/Residency: Rachel Whiteread, project director 2003 Alison Knowles: Secret Life of Ordinary Things, curator for artists’ residency project James Siena drawings and paintings, curator and writer for exhibition brochure. Traveled to University of Ohio, Akron.

McBean Lecture and Residency: John Baldessari, project director

2002 Tania Bruguera, curator for artists’ residency project and writer for exhibition brochure. Part of Brugeura’s installation traveled to Istanbul Biennale, 2002.

Touch: Relational Art from the 1990s until Now, co-curated with Nicolas Bourriaud Ghada Amer and Michal Helfman, Ghada Amer, Michal Helfman, and San Francisco Art Institute

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SAN FRANCISCO ART INSTITUTE, CONTINUED

2002 McBean Lecture and Residency: Adrian Piper, project director

F-Word Symposium, project director for 2-day series of panels/performance on feminism and post- feminist practices.

2001 Los Carpinteros, Raul Cordero, Gal Weinstein, Curator’s introduction in Los Carpinteros, checklist/brochure.

Lee Bul: Live Forever, Part I, co-sponsored by Fabric Workshop. Traveled to New Museum, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Power Plant, and Scottsdale Center for Contemporary Art and Henry Art Gallery. Introduction in Lee Bul Live Forever, co-published by San Francisco Art Institute and the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia.

Telematic Connections: the Virtual Embrace, guest curated by Steve Dietz and two concurrent public symposia: Women, the City and Technology and Curating Byte-Based Art.

Anna Sanders, international artists residencies/project/exhibition by Pierre Huyghe and Philippe Parreno. Part of their installation was incorporated into Huyghe’s 2001 Venice Biennale installation.

2000 The World on its Head: Contemporary Belgian Art from Flanders, artist’s residencies/exhibition Curator’s introduction in book co-published by Art File Foundation and San Francisco Art Institute.

Kelly Nipper + Sharon Lockhart: 2 Artists in 3 Takes, Curator’s essay in exhibition book McBean Lecture and Residency with Robert Rauschenberg/Walter Hopps 1999 Direct Translation, three French artist residencies/projects/exhibitions with Matthieu Laurette, Malachi Farrell and Marie-Ange Guilleminot.

WALKER ART CENTER

1998 Performance in the 1970s: Experiencing the Everyday, co-curator and writer for exhibition brochure and web site

1997 Visitor’s Voices: Recomposing the Collection, co-curator/co-producer of video with museum visitors.

Art of the 1960s: Media is the Message, co-curator and writer for exhibition brochure and web site. The Art and Life of Anne Ryan, co-curator and writer for exhibition brochure and web site. AIA Design Series: Architecture and Popular Culture: Alan Hess, Tony Lawlor, Sue Weller, John Hoke, Val Taylor-Smith, Alan Resnick

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WALKER ART CENTER, CONTINUED

1997 Writers’ Readings with David Antin, Fatimah Tobing Rony Voices of the Permanent Collection: Dan Graham, Phil Barber, Wing Young Huie On A Balcony: A Conversation discussion with Mark Luyten and Joan Rothfuss Walker Salons: Women at Work, no place like (home) Diana Thater: Orchid in Land of Technology lectures by Geoff Batchen and Peter Verbeek 1997 Joseph Beuys Multiples panel with Anne Temkin and Johannes Matthieson Beuys Information Office, six gallery talks with multi-disciplinary artists and scholars Beuys and America, lecture by David Levi-Strauss Art and Medicine: Connective Issues, lectures by Oliver Sacks, Walt Wilson, Barbara Stafford Architecture of Reassurance: Designing Disney Theme Parks, panels and lectures Learning from the Mall of America, keynote lecture by Rem Koolhaas 1996 Mack Series on Modernism with Tim Clark, John Elderfield, Gary Garrels, Ann Gibson Mack Series on Modernism with Susan Faludi, Greil Marcus and Peter Jelavich Writers’ Readings with Judy Chicago and Rebecca Walker 1996 Cross-Currents artists/environmentalists panel and Waterways with Eiko and Koma’s River Visitor’s Voices artists talks with Lorna Simpson and Todd Norsten An Evening About Bob Kaufman with Maria Damon and Christopher Edwards An Evening of Jazz and Poetry: University of Minnesota Jazz Quartet and Amiri Baraka Beat Culture panel: Allen Ginsberg, Bruce Conner, George Herms, Hettie Jones Wild Design panel: Aaron Betsky, Michael McCoy, Chee Pearlman, Martin Thaler Backstage at the Walker videotape of interpretive installation by Dorit Cypis Chris Marker/William Klein lectures by Jean Pierre Gorin, Bill Horrigan Cafe Berlin, twelve-week series of gallery talks for Photomontages of Hannah Hoch Edward Hopper’s Office at Night and Visitor’s Voices: Recomposing the Collection 1995 Art on the Internet: Power, Access, Desire: Tony Riddle, Ann Beeson, and Piotr Szyhalski Brilliant: New Art from London panel: Jake Chapman, Georgina Starr, Sam Taylor-Wood Writers’ Reading: Paul Beatty, Bill T. Jones, Sarah Lawrence-Lightfoot, Richard Rhodes

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EXHIBITIONS, PROJECTS AND PUBLIC PROGRAMS, 1979 - 1994

1994 Collaborations: Inside the Armory/Out On the Street, a group exhibition of six teams of artists inside the Armory Center for the Arts and in public spaces in downtown Pasadena. Editor/essayist in book.

Altered Egos: Making Art As An(other) group exhibition of artists who assume new identities, Santa Monica Museum of Art. Editor and essayist in accompanying book.

In the Spirit of Fluxus, Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Consultant for public programs and a Fluxus festival in conjunction with exhibition.

1993 Kim Abeles: Encyclopedia Persona, A Fifteen-Year Survey, Santa Monica Museum of Art. 1994 Traveled to Forum in St. Louis and Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA; Awarded Best Regional Museum Show for 1993-94 by International Association of Art Critics. Touring version of the exhibition at traveled to five venues in Latin America, sponsored by USIA Arts America with catalogue in English, Spanish and Portuguese. Editor and essayist in accompanying book.

1992 Santa Monica Museum of Art Artist Projects, Project Director for fourteen site-specific installations and related public education programs. Curatorial essay online: http://smmoa.org/exhibitions/archive/

1989 Art in the Raw, Project Consultant and Writer for a series of six interdisciplinary, site-specific installation and performances at Santa Monica Museum of Art.

1988 John Woodall: Tools of Performance, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Curatorial essay in accompanying book.

National Performance Network assistant curator for performances and workshops by Watchface, Jo Andre and the Kitchen Collective at the Museum of Contemporary Art, LA.

1987 Territory of Art II research associate for radio series, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Peter Sellar's Zangezi, research associate, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles 1985 ARTWATCH, public art program of 50 installations and performance events in State St. storefronts

1984 Photosensitivity: Viewpoints of Modern Photography, Museum Architecture in a Post-Modern Age Art of the States: Works from a Santa Barbara Collection, assistant curator State of the Arts/Arts of the State Olympic Arts Festival Installation and Performance Series 101 Photographs: Selections from the Arthur and Yolanda Steinman Collection, assistant curator 1983 From Avery to Zurburan, Recent Gifts In Tribute to William Dole, The Heroic Generation of Abstract Expressionism, Trilogy by Eiko and Koma, curatorial assistant

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SELECTED ARTICLES, ESSAYS AND INTERVIEWS

2014 “Bonnie Sherk’s Portable Park IV: past/present/future,” The Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival, upcoming publication Getty Research Institute, 2014, edited by Catherine Taft and Irene Tsatsos.

“Martha Rosler: Photomontages and Garage Sales,” critical essay and portfolio of images by the artist, Feminist Studies Journal, Winter 2014.

2012 “A Californian State of Mind: A conversation between Lynn Hershman, Martha Rosler, Allen Ruppersberg, Karen Moss, Constance Lewallen, Stephen Kaltenbach, and Jens Hoffmann,” Mousse, Issue 32, February 2012 published in the magazine and on website, , http://www.moussemagazine.it/articolo.mm?id=806

2005 Elements and Mythologies, wrote interpretive essays for two collection exhibitions published in brochure and on website, Walker Art Center

2003 “Face Off: Nicolas Bourriaud and Karen Moss,” On-line curatorial dialogue, Stretcher, www.stretcher.org

2002 “Remembrance of Things Past, an Eye Towards the Future,” curatorial essay on Santa Monica Museum of Art Artists Projects Series, https://smmoa.org/exhibitions/archive/

2001 “Palliative Pleasures: The Intersection of Food and Performance Art in Setting the American Table,” essay for inaugural publication for COPIA: The Museum of Food, Wine and Culture, Napa

1999 Copywork: the Dictionary Pages of Gilles Barbier, contributing editor of an artists’ book published by Santa Barbara Museum of Art

1995 LAX: The Los Angeles Exhibition, “Collaborations,” guest essayist in catalogue for the 1994 LAX Biennial

1993 “Mapping Fluxus in California,” guest essayist in Fluxus Vivus, Arts Club of Chicago and Fluxus Virus exhibition catalogue, Köln

“Kim Abeles,” guest essay for Laguna Museum of Art 75th Anniversary Catalogue

1988 Bon Angeles, catalogue editor, Santa Monica Museum of Art

LACE 10 Years Documented, editor and essayist for the comprehensive document of the first decade of programming at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE)

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PUBLIC LECTURES, PANELS & CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION

2014 The Avant-garde Collection, conversation with curator Dan Cameron, Orange County Museum of Art Manhattan Beach/LA County Public Art Commission Panelist for Manhattan Beach Public Library 2013 State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970, curatorial lectures, SITE Santa Fe, Bronx Museum of the Arts and Smart Museum, Chicago

California Pacific Trienniale, panel moderator, Orange County Museum of Art State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970, curator’s tour/lecture, Bronx Museum of the Arts and the Smart Museum, University of Chicago

Creative Capital Retreat, consultant, Williams College, Williamstown, MA Public Art Committee Standing Member for City of Santa Monica and University of California, Irvine 2012 California Institute of the Arts MFA Graduate Program, guest lecturer State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970, curator’s tour, Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia Manhattan Beach/LA County Public Art Commission Panelist for Manhattan Beach Public Library Portable Parks IV/Consuming Nature: Pedagogy and Practice in Public Art, session presenter, Open Engagement Conference, Portland State University

The Arts Dean’s Lecture Series, Reshaping the Museum, lecturer UC Santa Cruz State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970, moderator, UC Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive Re/Locating Learning, participant, Otis Graduate Pedagogy Practicum and Performance event at College Art Association Meeting, Los Angeles

2011 Pacific Standard Time special event, lecture/presentation, Soho House, Los Angeles. State of Mind, lecture, Pacific Standard Time Symposium, Getty Art Museum. State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970, panel moderator, Orange County Museum of Art Los Angeles: The Making of a (Female) Art Capital, panelist, Art Los Angeles Contemporary Art Fair 2010 United States Artists Foundation, Chair of Visual Arts panel, 2010 Artists’ Fellowships City of Santa Monica, selection panel, Palisades Walk Public Art Panel Contemporary Photography with Jo Ann Callis, Eileen Cowin, and Kim Yasuda, moderator, OCMA 2009 United States Artists Foundation, panelist, 2009 Artists’ Fellowship

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PUBLIC LECTURES, PANELS & CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION, CONTINUED 2008 Creative Capital Retreat, consultant, Williams College, Williamstown, MA Museum Encounters Between Objects and the Public, presenter, College Art Association Meeting, Dallas

2007 Art at Pasadena Center, selection panel, Pasadena Arts and Culture Commission GLOW, curatorial panel, Cultural Affairs Department, City of Santa Monica Orange Coast College, guest lecturer 2006 DIY i-pod Tours, presentation, California Association of Museums, Conference, Long Beach Transportation Corridor Projects, selection panel, City of San Jose Contemporary Curator’s Conference, participant, hosted by Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago 2006 California Biennial, guest lecturer, Pomona College 2005 Museum Studies Program, guest lecturer, California State University, Long Beach School of Fine Arts Commencement Address, University of Southern California Artists’ Projects for the Interactive Café, co-chair/juror, San Jose Museum of Art for ISEA 2006 Interpretive Programs Grants, panelist/evaluator, Getty Foundation Contemporary Curator’s Conference, participant, hosted by LACMA and MOCA 2004 Art Department, guest lecturer, UC Irvine 2003 Otis College of Art and Design, guest lecturer, Tournesol Award in Painting, panelist/juror, Headlands Center for the Arts 2002 Awake: Art, Buddhism and Consciousness, participant, Green Gulch Zen Center Summer Curator’s Conference, participant, hosted by Berkeley Art Museum 2001 Visual Arts Fellowships, panelist, Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiatives, Pew Charitable Trust Public Action, moderator on panel for American Film Institute Conference on Streaming Media Curating Byte-Based Art, moderator, San Francisco Art Institute Summer Curator’s Conference, participant, hosted by Berkeley Art Museum 2000 Schmidt Career Development series, panelist, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco Bay Guardian forum, panelist, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco Got Art? panelist, San Francisco Art Expo, Cowell Auditorium Human Interfaces for Virtual Exhibitions, presenter, College Art Association meeting, Los Angeles

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PUBLIC LECTURES, PANELS & CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION, CONTINUED 1998 “Sculpture Now,” “1960s: Underground,” and “Art of the 1980s,” lecturer, Walker Art Center Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, panelist, Visual Arts Organizations Panel Center for Curatorial Studies, guest lecturer, Bard College, New York 1997 Jerome Foundation Individual Artists’ Grants, panelist Beat Culture and the New America, lecturer, Walker Art Center Museum Studies Program, guest lecturer, Frederick Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis 1995 “Sherrie Levine’s Newborn,” guest lecturer, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles “Fluxus and Intermedia,” guest lecturer, Art and Art History Department, UC Davis 1994 In the Spirit of Fluxus, lecturer and panelist, Santa Barbara Museum of Art Altered Egos, Organizer and moderator of symposium, Santa Monica Museum of Art “Current Issues in Public Art,” panelist, California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA “Contemporary Art In Public Places: 30 Years of History and Criticism,” lecture, Pasadena Art Alliance 1993 John Cage: Rolywholyover: A Circus, panelist, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Kim Abeles: Encyclopedia Persona, organizer/moderator of panel, Santa Monica Museum of Art Curator's Showcase, guest lecturer, Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Northern Telecom Grants, panelist, City Gallery of Contemporary Art, Raleigh, NC 75 Artists/75 Works: A Contemporary Viewpoint, guest lecturer, Laguna Art Museum Flux Forum for In the Spirit of Fluxus, organizer and panelist, Walker Art Center Fluxus As Practice, Fluxus As History, panelist, College Art Association meeting, Seattle 1992 City of Santa Monica Arts Commission, panelist California Arts Council, site visitor Easy Chair, Electric Chair, panel discussion moderator, Santa Monica Museum of Art 1991 Neither Here Nor There, panel discussion moderator, Santa Monica Museum of Art 1990 City of Santa Monica Arts Commission Annual City-Wide Art Exhibition, juror California Arts Council, panelist, Interdisciplinary Arts Program, Sacramento Los Angeles Endowment for the Arts, Panelist, Visual Arts Panel