I am the Director and Chief Curator of Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (SMoCA), a museum dedicated to contemporary art, architecture, and design. Established in 1999 and housed in a building designed by architect Will Bruder, SMoCA is run by Scottsdale Arts and it is the only museum in the Phoenix metropolitan area solely focused on contemporary art.
Since 2005, I have worked in non-profit arts organizations in various curatorial, editorial and fundraising capacities. My wide-ranging and numerous curatorial projects encompass exhibitions (both solo and group shows), public art commissions, public programs and publications. Previously, I was the Director and Chief Curator of the Mandeville Art Gallery at UC San Diego, Founding Director of Gas, the Assistant Curator of Visual Arts at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Senior Editor of the art and technology non-profit arts organization Rhizome, and Special Projects Coordinator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art.
I have a MA and PhD in Comparative Literature from New York University, and a BA in History and Sociology from U.C. Berkeley. My academic research addresses contemporary internet-based art practice and network culture. My first book Expanded Internet Art: Twenty-First Century Artistic Practice and the Informational Milieu is published through the Bloomsbury series International Texts in Critical Media Aesthetics. My writing has appeared in Rhizome, Art in America, ArtAsiaPacific, Artforum, The Wire, CURA, New Media & Society and various art catalogs. I have held teaching positions at UC San Diego, California College of the Arts (CCA), the University of Southern California, Scripps College, the San Francisco Art Institute and New York University.
CONTACT: cecimoss(at)gmail.com
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