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Independent curator Nancy Zastudil and Independent Curators International (ICI) have partnered to initiate the Visiting Curator Series, a biennial program which brings to Albuquerque a select group of curators to conduct studio visits with multiple local artists over the course of several months.
In addition to studio visits, curators choose one artist to mentor for six months following their visit. In-person encounters are made possible through the duration of the program via a travel budget provided to each artist to visit their mentors in their home cities. Collaborations in Albuquerque and the curators’ hometowns are encouraged so that regional partnerships can be activated or strengthened. |
Each curator gives a public talk about their practice, including the artists and the sociopolitical contexts that shape their work. The series raises awareness for the role of the curator, contributes to the advancement and dissemination of contemporary art discourse, making it accessible to a wider public, and sheds light on art movements and curatorial models that are still in formation. Curators also travel beyond Albuquerque during their time in New Mexico to help lay the groundwork for expanding the program in subsequent years. VCS 2018 was funded in part by Common Field, Fulcrum Fund, and the FUNd at the Albuquerque Community Foundation. Information about VCS 2020 is forthcoming.
2018 Participating Artists
Click here to read about the artists selected for the 2018 VCS mentorship program.
Click here to read about the artists selected for the 2018 VCS mentorship program.
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Viola Arduini
Fatemeh Baigmoradi* Russell Bauer Ragini Bhow Frank Blazquez Tommy Bruce Nanibah Chacon Jennifer DePaolo Eugene Ellenberg Nevarez Encinias Leonard Fresquez |
Apolo Gomez*
Isabel Hees Amanda Hamp Szu-Han Ho* Rachel Harris-Huffman Ian Jones Jessamyn Lovell Lance McGoldrick Noah McLaurine Billy Joe Miller Jennifer Nehrbass |
Allyson Packer
Adrian Pijoan Jami Porter Lara Cristine Posner Farzan Tristan Radfarr Valerie Roybal Zac Travis Jennifer Vasher Nora Wendl* Ariel Wilson Rachel Zollinger |
2018 Visiting Curators
Rachel Cook Creative Director, On the Boards, Seattle, WA Studio visit dates: February 23 & 24 Curator Talk: Friday, February 23 at Sanitary Tortilla Factory, 5:30 p.m. As curator of DiverseWorks in Houston, TX, Rachel Cook is passionate about the organization’s mission to “commission, produce, and present new and daring art in all its forms through innovative collaborations that honor each artist’s vision without constraint.” Her curatorial work reconsiders the relationship between images and objects, and investigates methods of delegation embedded within performative and participatory work. She has helped to organize commissioned projects with Tony Feher, Liz Magic Laser, Heather and Ivan Morison, Wu Tsang, Pepe Mar, and Chelsea Knight and Mark Tribe. Her writing has appeared in a number of art journals and catalogues, including Modern Painters, Flash Art, and the Prospect 3 catalogue. Prior to joining DiverseWorks, Cook worked for dOCUMENTA(13)’s publication team, and was a fellow for the International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York. She holds a Masters from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College and a Bachelors from the San Francisco Art Institute. Cook has recently been appointed Artistic Director of On the Boards in Seattle, WA. Her visit is organized in partnership with ICI and with full financial support provided by Common Field. |
Rotem Rozental Chief Curator, American Jewish University, Los Angeles, CA Studio visit dates: May 18 & 19 Curator Talk: Friday, May 18 at Central Features, 5:30 p.m. Rotem Rozental is the Chief Curator of the American Jewish University in Los Angeles, CA. In this capacity, she serves as the Assistant Dean of the Whizin Center and the Director of the Institute for Jewish Creativity (IJC). She is a photo-historian, writer, and curator. Traversing the domains of technology, media and art, she has been working as a consultant, editor, writer, educator and organizer for international publications, cultural non-profits and organizations, among them Dia:Beacon, The Liverpool Biennial, The Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, and the Jerusalem Season of Culture. Rozental's scholarly and curatorial projects have been supported by Artis, Independent Curators International, NurtureArt and the Center for Jewish History (NYC). Most recently, she curated the dual exhibition Launch Sites L.A., which expands unto two sites in Los Angeles, several countries and a number of potential universes. Her writings and academic essays appeared in magazines, journals, and publications such as Photographies, Philosophy of Photography, Artforum.com, Tablet.com, and Uncertain States. She is currently pursuing her Dissertation project, in which she explores the intersections of Zionist photographic archives, the image of the body and the writing of a national territory under the guidance of Prof. John Tagg (Binghamton University, NY). She might need more coffee. See and read more at artbound.net. Rozental's visit is organized in partnership with ICI, with financial support provided by The Fulcrum Fund and The FUNd at the Albuquerque Community Foundation. |
Julio César Morales
Curator, Arizona State University Art Museum/Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, Tempe, AZ Dates of visit: June 22 & 23 Curator Talk: Friday, June 22 at the NHCC, 5:30 p.m. Employing a range of media and visual strategies, artist and curator Julio César Morales explores issues of migration, underground economies, and labor on personal and global scales. He is currently curator of visual arts at Arizona State University Art Museum; was the founder and director for Queens Nails Annex, an artist-run project space in San Francisco from 2003 to 2012; adjunct professor at The San Francisco Art Institute from 2000 to 2012; and associate professor in Curatorial Studies at The California College for the Arts from 1999 to 2010. Morales is an advisor and writer for The San Francisco Quarterly Art Magazine; from 2008 to 2012 he was adjunct curator for visual arts at Yerba Buena Center for The Arts in San Francisco; and was a contributing curator for the Japanese pavilion at the 2013 Venice Biennale. He has curated more than 100+ exhibitions to date. Highlights as a curator include solo exhibitions with Superflex, Suzanne Lacy, Mary Kelly, Nina Beier, Pedro Reyes, Miguel Calderon, Yoshua Okon, Koki Tanaka, Pablo Helguera and retrospective exhibitions of George Kuchar and Miguel Angel Rios with group exhibitions including Bay Area Now Triennale and The Jumex Collection. Morales has received grants for curatorial projects from The Rockefeller Foundation, National Endowment for The Arts, Jumex Foundation, and the Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation among others. Morales’ artwork has been shown nationally and internationally. Morales's visit is organized in partnership with ICI, with financial support provided by The Fulcrum Fund and The FUNd at the Albuquerque Community Foundation. |
Patricia Cariño Valdez
Independent Curator, San Francisco, CA Studio visit dates: June 29 & 30 Curator Talk: Friday, June 29 at South Broadway Cultural Center, 5:30 p.m. Patricia Cariño Valdez is an Independent Curator based in Oakland, CA. Her goal is to support thoughtful artists and empower art appreciators to foster moments for community building centered on arts and culture. She is 1/2 of Casa de Palomitas, a collaborative project with Cesar Valdez. From Spring 2016 to Summer 2018, she served as the Curator and Director of Public Programs at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in California, where she oversaw exhibition coordination of over ten contemporary art exhibitions per year. Additionally, she developed public engagement initiatives including ICA Live!, a performance art program, and Talking Art, a series of panel discussions and artist lectures, portfolio reviews, and workshops. She Instituted the first national call for site-specific installations and implemented a pipeline for future art commissions. Prior to the ICA, Valdez created public programs that were invested in the the intersection of arts and sciences at the Exploratorium in San Francisco. Additionally, Valdez worked closely with a San Francisco art advisor to help build and expand private art collections throughout the U.S. Her curatorial projects have been held at the San Francisco State University, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, Asian Contemporary Arts Consortium, Oakland Museum of California, Pro Arts, California College of the Arts and numerous independent galleries and art spaces in San Francisco and Oakland. She was born in Manila and grew up along the West Coast of the U.S. Valdez earned a BA in History of Art from the University of California, Berkeley and an MA in Curatorial Practice from the California College of the Arts. Cariño's visit is organized in partnership with ICI, with financial support provided by The Fulcrum Fund and The FUNd at the Albuquerque Community Foundation. |
Humberto Moro
Curator, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
Dates of visit: October 12 & 13
Curator Talk: Friday, October 12 at Tamarind Institute, 5:30 p.m.
Humberto Moro is Curator at the SCAD Museum of Art in Savannah, GA, where he has organized solo exhibitions by Glen Fogel, Mario Navarro, Oliver Laric, Liliana Porter, Cynthia Gutiérrez, Pia Camil, Mariana Castillo Deball and Tom Bur. Moro is Curator of New Proposals and SAMPLE, sections at Zona MACO, Mexico City. He was most recently Director and Curator at large for Colección Diéresis, Guadalajara. He was previously Assistant Curator and collection ordinator at Museo Jumex, Mexico City. He has curated exhibition projects such as Residual Historica Haunting at Johannes Vogt Gallery, New York; Overburden at the Hessel Museum of Art, New York; Measuring the Distance by Gonzalo Lebrija at La Casa Encendida, Madrid; and Witness of The Century at Museo de Arte de Zapopan (MAZ), Guadalajara. He was a recipient of the Estancia Tabacaler research fellowship for Latin-American curator 2016, Madrid, Spain, and was part of the 7th Gwangju Biennale International Curator Course, in Gwangju, South Korea. He has written about the work of Jose Dávila, Guillermo Mora, Ana Tiscornia and Tom Burr, and published the book Possibility of Disaster by Gonzalo Lebrij, among others.
Moro's visit is organized in partnership with ICI, with financial support provided by The FUNd at the Albuquerque Community Foundation.
Curator, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
Dates of visit: October 12 & 13
Curator Talk: Friday, October 12 at Tamarind Institute, 5:30 p.m.
Humberto Moro is Curator at the SCAD Museum of Art in Savannah, GA, where he has organized solo exhibitions by Glen Fogel, Mario Navarro, Oliver Laric, Liliana Porter, Cynthia Gutiérrez, Pia Camil, Mariana Castillo Deball and Tom Bur. Moro is Curator of New Proposals and SAMPLE, sections at Zona MACO, Mexico City. He was most recently Director and Curator at large for Colección Diéresis, Guadalajara. He was previously Assistant Curator and collection ordinator at Museo Jumex, Mexico City. He has curated exhibition projects such as Residual Historica Haunting at Johannes Vogt Gallery, New York; Overburden at the Hessel Museum of Art, New York; Measuring the Distance by Gonzalo Lebrija at La Casa Encendida, Madrid; and Witness of The Century at Museo de Arte de Zapopan (MAZ), Guadalajara. He was a recipient of the Estancia Tabacaler research fellowship for Latin-American curator 2016, Madrid, Spain, and was part of the 7th Gwangju Biennale International Curator Course, in Gwangju, South Korea. He has written about the work of Jose Dávila, Guillermo Mora, Ana Tiscornia and Tom Burr, and published the book Possibility of Disaster by Gonzalo Lebrij, among others.
Moro's visit is organized in partnership with ICI, with financial support provided by The FUNd at the Albuquerque Community Foundation.
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