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Rashida Bumbray Rashida Bumbray has been an Assistant Curator at The Kitchen since 2006. Previously, she enjoyed a five-and-a-half-year tenure at The Studio Museum in Harlem, first as Curatorial Assistant and then as the Exhibition Coordinator. She holds a B.A. from Oberlin College and is completing her M.A. in Africana Studies at New York University. During her tenure at the Studio Museum, she co-organized exhibitions such as Seeds and Roots: Selections from the Permanent Collection, 2004, co-curated with Thelma Golden; and Energy/Experimentation: Black Artists and Abstraction 1964-1980 with Kellie Jones, 2006. She is also the Co-founder and Curator of Studio Sound, the Studio Museum’s lobby music installation which featured new works by Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR), Marc Cary, and Charlie Dark’s The Black Atlantic Project: a musical chain letter. She is also the co-founder of Hoofers’ House, the Museum’s quarterly jam session for tap dancers, which is now also being co-produced by The Kitchen. At The Kitchen, she recently co-curated the exhibition Mai-Thu Perret: An Evening of the Book with Debra Singer, and has organized several music events at The Kitchen, including new concert works by Pheroan akLaff, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, Guillermo E. Brown, Min Xiao-Fen, and Burnt Sugar, The Arkestra Chamber. |
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Denise Carvalho Denise Carvalho holds a Ph.D. in cultural studies, an M.A. in art history from UCD, and an MA in cultural anthropology from Hunter College, as well as a BFA from SVA. She has published widely in art magazines and journals such as Sculpture, Flash Art, Art Papers NKA Journal of Contemporary African Art, Journal of Art & Society, Cover, Review, Art in America, Art Nexus, and Afterimage, as well as in several Brazilian and European publications. She has curated exhibitions and exhibited her own work throughout the U.S. and internationally. Her most recent show, Preemptive Resistances: Critical Pointers in Latin American Art, has been exhibited at the Westport Arts Center. Among other of her recent shows are: Holy Holes: Absolute Stalls at the Dumbo Arts Center, and Infinitu et Contini: Repeated Histories, Reinvented Strategies at Smack Mellon, in Brooklyn, NY. Presently, she teaches at IDSVA. |
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Heng-Gil Han Heng-Gil Han is Visual Arts Director and Curator for Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, NY. He is the Project Founder and Director of Jamaica Flux: Workspace and Windows, a perennial exhibition of site-specific projects investigating the potential of art to transform the built environment by revealing the economic, social, and institutional forces acting on it, and prompting new ways of interacting with the space and the public. Noted shows he has presented at JCAL include Global Priority (2002), LivePictures: Digital World Animates Contemporary Art (2006), and Metro Poles (2008). He has also mounted exhibitions that explore issues of identity, gender and cultural politics. The exhibitions Wangechi Mutu (2002), Serene Beauty: Intersections between Sublime and Zen (2003), and Reality/Fiction (2004), emphasize the awareness of cultural conditions through observation and critical analyses of transmitted and constructed reality. Han served as a curator for the 2008 Busan Sculpture Project, Busan Biennale, South Korea, and is responsible for The 21st Century, The Feminine Century, The Century of Diversity and Hope featured at the 2009 International Incheon Women Artists’ Biennale, Incheon, South Korea. He published a collection of his critical essays on contemporary art, Network and Fluid, in Korea. |
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Shantrelle P. Lewis Shantrelle P. Lewis is an independent curator and scholar |
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amani olu amani olu is an independent curator, writer, designer, and the co-founder and executive director of Humble Arts Foundation, a New York based 501c3 committed to supporting and promoting new art photography. He produced, designed, and co-curated The Collector’s Guide to New Art Photography Vol. 2, published by Humble. In addition to his work as a nonprofit director, he also organizes the annual Young Curators, New Ideas exhibition. Recently, olu organized Tuesday, the first guest-curated exhibition at Mixed Greens, which examined less obvious manifestation of the Everyday in contemporary art. His projects have been reviewed and featured in prestigious publications such as The New York Times, The New Yorker, Artnews, Time Out NY, Code, and AM New York, and online at Art in America, Art Observed, Art Fag City, Blackbook, Bomblog, Cool Hunting, Daily Serving, and Flavorwire. olu is also a regular contributor to Whitewall magazine where he has interviewed William Eggleston and Gottfried Helnwein, and profiled K8 Hardy, Elad Lassry, Rashaad Newsome, and David Benjamin Sherry. He lives and works in New York and is a proud member of New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA). |
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Ed Patuto Ed Patuto has been a fundraiser for nearly 20 years for institutions including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the San Francisco Art Institute, and Montalvo Arts Center. He was a founder of the Castillo Cultural Center in New York, where he both produced and performed in several productions. As a dancer, his performance credits include the Lyric Opera of New York and Men Together. In 2006 he produced the Bleeding Edge Festival at the Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga, CA. He recently served as the Co-Founder/Director of VOLUME, a CA-based curatorial catalyst for interdisciplinary new media work concentrating on the nexus of music and visual arts practices from the experimental to popular culture. He is the Producer/Curator of several exhibitions, performance series and events including VOLUME’s Restless Brilliance at the Armand Hammer Museum Los Angeles; Electronic Cinema Southern Exposure, San Francisco, Scores Lawrimore Project Seattle; Resonant Forms Festival, Los Angeles, and rE/visioning the Collection at de Young Museum, San Francisco to name a few. A former Brooklyn resident, Patuto is an alumnus of State University of New York and Ailey School of American Dance. |
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Jose Ruiz José Ruiz is a Peruvian-born artist and curator. In the past few years, he has curated exhibitions for the Queens Museum of Art, P.P.O.W. Gallery, Bronx River Art Center, El Museo de Arte de El Salvador, and PS122 Gallery, among others. Current curatorial roles include: Co-Curator, AIM Biennial exhibition (Bronx Museum of the Arts, 2011) and Co-Curator, Incheon Biennial (South Korea, 2011). From 2006-2010, he served as the Gallery Director & Curator for the Bronx River Art Center. Ruiz received his MFA in New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2004 and began his curatorial practice in 2000 as part of an interdisciplinary, collaborative art project called Decatur Blue—an artspace and art collective based in Washington DC. Since then, Ruiz has curated over 15 national and international exhibitions and co-curated over 30 exhibitions across various institutions and organizations. He currently lives in New York by way of Lima, Brasilia, Washington DC, and San Francisco. Ruiz is the founder of Furthermore, an archival print shop for artists and curatorial initiatives; a platform to support and collect contemporary art; a line of innovative/functional products designed by visual artists; and an exhibition space featuring an international curatorial program and artists working in all disciplines. |
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Sarah Schmerler Sarah Schmerler is an art critic and journalist, regularly published in The New York Times, The New York Post, The Village Voice, Time Out New York, Art in America, Photograph, and Art & Auction. She has taught Writing for Artists at The New School, and art history at Pratt Institute's School of Professional Studies and Medgar Evers College, CUNY, Brooklyn. Trained as a fine artist at Pratt Institute, she is currently a curator of a virtual exhibition space called 45Projects. She has also curated at a number of nonprofit art sites in New York City. |
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Adriana Teresa Co-Founder of both FotoVisura and Visura Media, Adriana Teresa is committed to supporting the international photography community. She has participated in and produced Visura Magazine & Spotlight (Publisher/Editor-in-Chief); FotoVisura.com (Co-Founder/Creative Director); The FotoVisura Grants (Co-Founder/Juror); and The FotoVisura Portfolio Consultations (Producer/ Reviewer). Seeking to support international photography events, Adriana Teresa initiated the Latin American Pavilion during the New York Photo Festival 2008-2010 (Producer/Curator). She supported the inaugural 2010 GuatePhoto Festival (Co-Producer/Curator) in Guatemala, and curated the International Photo Awards Best of Show exhibition during the annual 2010 Lucie Awards. She is a contributing writer on the New York Times Lens Blog. She recently co-founded The Envision Foundation for Photography and Digital Media, an international nonprofit organization that empowers young people to become involved in, and contribute to, their communities and the world through photography and digital media. |
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Gallery Exhibitions
Rush Arts Gallery + Resource Center
December 1-10 · Manhattan
Bill Hodges Gallery
December 2 -11 · Manhattan
Art at Bay
December 3 -18 · Staten Island
Longwood Art Gallery @ Hostos
December 7-February 1 · Bronx
Like the Spice
December 8 -18 · Brooklyn
Crossing Art
December 10-31 · Queens