2021 - 2019
selections from the "Indigenous Woman" portfolio by artist Martine Gutierrez, Summer 2021 / curator
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(l) video still from Supernova, by artists Ale de la Puente, Juan José Díaz Infante, Nahum, and Tania Candiani, at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre, 2015 (b) performance still from Black Woman Why, by artist and choreographer Kierah Kiki King, Chicago, 2020, and (c) Quynh and Tran in garden tub, family photo provided by artist Tran Tran, as part of Raisin exhibition, Fall 2021 / guest curator, 6018North
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(l) artist Folayemi (Fo) Wilson's installation "Dark Matter: Celestial Objects as Messengers of Love in These Troubled Times", and (r) special performance at the installation by Ben Lamar Gay and Krista Franklin, July 2019 (photos by Tom Van Ende and Tran Tran) / staff role at Hyde Park Art Center exhibitions and residency team
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video still from "NOT EXACTLY LOVE" by artist Leticia Bernaus, as part of group exhibition Preview 9: A Boldness to Dare and Try, September 2019 / invited guest curator, Chicago Artists Coalition
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barcode panels from "R.E.S.I.S.T." by artist Jose Resendiz, 2019, as part of The Tokyo Show: Black & Brown Are Beautiful, Summer 2019 (photo by Tran Tran) / curator, Hyde Park Art Center
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platform homepage and video still / invited guest co-curator, Arts Alliance Illinois
2018
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(l) still from single-channel video with split screen "Mom and I" by artist Kat Liu, and (r) hand-painted gravel sculptural work "…writing his dream inside a rectangle" by artist Ashley M. Freeby, as part of Ground Floor Biennial, Fall 2018 / exhibition coordinator and catalogue editor, Hyde Park Art Center
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(r) artists Ishita Dharap, Kandis Friesen, Ashley M. Freeby, Maryam Taghavi
at Chicago Art: Expanded, Encouraged, Explored October 25, 2018 (photo by Tran Tran) / co-producer, Hyde Park Art Center
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"Deborah Boardman: Painter &" retrospective Winter 2018/2019 / catalogue editor, Hyde Park Art Center
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2017
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multilingual digital edition of Department journal in Arts Administration & Policy, April 2017 / guest editor and editor-in-chief, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
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2016
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Panels I & II by artist Óscar I. González Díaz at New Work 2016 exhibition / co-curator, Sullivan Galleries
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2015
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“A lion is the crouch and the bristle and the roar that my body bulks out into when I am hungry and strong, watching one stranger pitter patter all over my territory—right before I eat him up." / writer, personal stories of identity and experience
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2014-early career
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(l) interview with recording artist Vanessa Mdee, and (r) 400-page anthology of original travel narratives that challenge traditional tourism / developmental editor and publisher
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(l) Hard Out Here for a Girl, Brooklyn Museum, artists Toni Blackman, DJ Reborn, Ishle Yi Park, 2006 (r) VOTE Campaign rally at Apollo Theater in Harlem, artists Isabella Rossellini and Marisa Tomei, 2004 / production team
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(l) EarSay Youth Voices: A Cross-Cultural Arts Project (r) founder and artist Judith Sloan / project assistant, 2003 and 2005
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Ongoing.
site visit to 3331 Arts Chiyoda in Tokyo 2016 / research for curatorial project
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presentation and public discussion with Bisi Silva, founder of Center for Contemporary Art Lagos 2017 / producer and co-sponsor
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at artist Işıl Eğrikavuk's class at Universität der Künste Berlin 2019, visiting a final project and exhibition on the theme of Friendship / visitor
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BMW Foundation Transatlantic Core Group and Responsible Leaders Network / invited fellow
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Dyett High School for the Arts 2018 / guest for arts and leadership workshop series
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