My teaching and scholarship are informed by early travel opportunities, global perspectives, and direct observations of many important sites in situ, beginning with an early childhood family pilgrimage to Mexico City’s Basílica de Santa María de Guadalupe and a teen youth tour of Cold War-era Europe, including East and West Berlin, Checkpoint Charlie, and Auschwitz, the summer of 1989, five months before Germans on both sides seized the Berlin Wall for freedom. My work is deeply informed by the power of the people and the good that persists.

I have taught undergraduate and graduate seminars at The George Washington University, New York University’s Washington DC Global Academic Center, University of California, Berkeley; California College of the Arts, San Francisco Art Institute, and California Institute of Integral Studies. I have guest lectured at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, Department of Architecture, and Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation; Stanford University’s Department of Art, Institute for Diversity in the Arts, and Graduate School of Business; San Jose State University, University of San Francisco, Kansas City Art Institute, Academy of Art University, and Los Positas Community College.

curriculum vitae brevis

Distinguished appointments

2015 - 2017 Scholar in Residence, Center for Art + Public Life, California College of the Arts

Spring 2017 Visiting Scholar, San Francisco State University, Department of Art

Visiting Faculty

Contemporary Art Theory, The George Washington University

Expressive Culture New York University’s Global Academic Center, Washington DC

Global Perspectives in Contemporary Art, University of California, Berkeley

New Media + Cultural Memory, California College of the Arts

Art & The City, California College of the Arts

Private Wealth, Public Art, California College of the Arts

Art, Politics & Women at Work, California College of the Arts

Sites Unseen: Contemporary Art Practice in Public Spaces, California College of the Arts,

Professional Practices, San Francsico Art Institute

Refiguring the Ground: Perspectives on Painting, San Francisco Art Institute

The Artist in the World, California of Institute of Integral Studies

The Business of Art, California of Institute of Integral Studies

Guest curator

Prompts for Inclusion, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, 2019. (Public Program, Poster Commissions)

Meditations on the Artist as Citizen, Center for Art + Public Life, California College of the Arts, 2016. (Exhibition, Public Programs, Zine Commission)

Public Works: Artists Interventions 1970s - Now, with Tanya Zimbardo, Mills College Art Museum, 2016. (Exhibition, Public Programs, Curator’s Essay, Catalogue)

Present Tense, Bay Area Graduate Fellows Exhibition, Headlands Center for the Arts, 2012 - 2013. (Fellows Juror + Exhibition Curator, Site-specific Commissions,, Curator’s Essay)

Lift-Off, MFA Graduate Exhibition, San José State University, 2012 - 2013. (Exhibition, Public Pecha Kucha, Curator’s Essay, Catalogue)

Here and Now, Mills College Art Museum, 2010. (Site-specific Temporary Public Art Commissions in Historic Sites, Public Programs, Curator’s Essay, Publication)

Sites Unseen, organized with California College of the Arts Graduate Students and Add-art.org, with support from Eyebeam Art + Technology Center, 2010. (Online)

Tales of the City, Goldsmiths Graduate Cohort, The British Arts Council at Arte Fiera, Bolognia, Italy, 2003 - 2004. (International Exhibition, Essay, Publication)

New California Masters, Juried California MFA Survey, WORKS, San José, 2003 - 2004. (Jury, Exhibition, Essay, Publication)

PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP

The Susan O’Malley Public Facing Deed of Gift, 2020. With San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Archived by Internet Archive.

The Conditions of Privilege (Chalk Scroll), 2019. Compiled with my UC Berkeley Global Perspectives seminar students, Fall 2018: Cleary Chizmar, Ashna Choudhury, Reniel Del Rosario, Edward Diven, Saba K. Gebremedhin, Stephanie So-Young Kim, Hazanne Likwong, Ariel Lung, Quinn McNulty, Juliette Mekikian, Madison Rae Nelson, Younie Park, Coco Qiu, Lesly Vazquez, Fonda Xu, Sunny Yu, and Qingqing Zhang. Published and permanently archived by California Digital Library.

Prompts for Inclusion: FAQ., 2017. Originally commissioned by Art Practical, 2017; poster commissioned by The Worth Ryder Gallery at UC Berkeley’s Department of Art Practice, 2018; special edition risograph published by Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, 2019; permanently archived by the California Digital Library, University of California, 2019.

Academic BIBLIOGRAPHY

Public Works: Artists’ Interventions’ 1970s - Now. Mills College Art Museum, 2015.

“Fabrications of Collective Organized Chaos.” Bulletin: Theory of Survival. California Institute of Integral Studies, 2015.

“From the Desk of Christian L. Frock, Here and Now.” Here and Now. Mills College Art Museum, 2010.

Interview with Brainard Carey, WYBCX Yale Radio, 2015.

Curator's statement. Lift-off. MFA exhibition catalogue, San José State University, 2013.

“(Meant to be) Lost and Found.” Mission at Tenth. California Institute of Integral Studies. 2012.

“Jamie Hilder: Special Advertising Section.” Public Art Dialogue. Peer reviewed. Ed. Dr. Harriet Senie and Dr. Cher Krauss Knight. Routlege, 2011.

“Invisible Venue(s): Alternatives to the Institution.” Originally a white paper presented at College Art Association Conference, Chicago; published by Art Practical and archived by Art&Education, 2010.

academic conferences

College Art Association, “Unauthorized Autonomy, Invisible Venue,” Disrupt this Session: Rebellion in Art Practices Today, organized by Wendy DesChene (Los Angeles, CA), 2010

College Art Association, “Invisible Venue(s): Alternatives to the Institution,” Site Variations: The Shifting Grounds for Public Art, chaired by Dr. Harriet Senie and Dr. Cher Krauss Knight. (Chicago, IL), 2008

Guest Speaker

Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley

Department of Architecture, University of California, Berkeley

Jacobs Institute of Design Innovation, University of California, Berkeley

Department of Art, San Francisco State University

Cultural Policy and Changing Cities, Berkeley Arts + Design, Berkeley Art Museum + Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley

Who We Be, with Jeff Chang, Institute for Diversity in the Arts, Stanford University

Technology as Public Platform, Mills College Art Museum, Mills College

Graduate School of Business, Stanford University

Department of Art, Stanford University

Invisible Venue: Visible Alternatives and Other Avenues, San José State University

Department of Art and Art History, Mills College

Academy of Art University, San Francisco

graduate work

English proofreading. Untitled (As Yet). The Yugoslav Biennial of Young Artists. Biennial catalogue. Eds. Sinisa Mitrovic with Ana Nikitovic. Belgrade, Yugoslavia; 2004.

International Exhibition, Catalogue, Curator’s essay, with Amy Shuckburgh. Italian and English translations. Tales of the City, exhibition catalogue, published by Goldsmiths College and The British Arts Council, Arte Fiere, Bologa, Italy, 2004.

Interview. “Long Distance with Dave Hickey.” Curating.net (archived), published by Goldsmiths College, University of London, August 2004.

Graduate Talks

On Cy Twombly, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK

On Alice Neel, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK

DEGREES

MA, Curatorial Practice, chaired by Dr. Andrew Renton, Goldsmiths College, University of London, London, UK

BA, Studio Art/Art History, chaired by Dr. Anne Simonson, San José State University, San Jose, California