Since 2005, I have worked in forward-thinking non-profit arts organizations in executive leadership, curatorial, editorial, and fundraising capacities. I have held senior roles as Director and Chief Curator of the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Director and Chief Curator of the Mandeville Art Gallery at UC San Diego, Founding Director of Gas, Senior Editor at Rhizome, as well as Assistant Curator of Visual Arts at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and Special Projects Coordinator at the New Museum.

My wide-ranging and numerous curatorial projects encompass exhibitions (solo, group, touring and online shows), public art commissions, public programs and publications. I have organized projects in museums, galleries, artist-run spaces, and digital platforms, centering interdisciplinary research, emerging technologies, and artist-led experimentation. Select projects include the touring exhibitions Lauren Lee McCarthy: Bodily Autonomy, the artist’s largest solo exhibition in the United States to date, and Alien She, a landmark survey of Riot Grrrl’s impact on artists and cultural producers. At the Mandeville Art Gallery, I organized several exhibitions that engaged UC San Diego’s research strengths, addressing topics from transborder studies (Border Craft) to artificial intelligence (Omni Intelligent). From 2013-2016, I established and curated the Control: Technology in Culture series at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, presenting major solo exhibitions by Metahaven, Shana Moulton, Brenna Murphy, Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork, and Nate Boyce.

A defining thread of my career is a commitment to future-facing and innovative organizational structures for artistic production. As the Founding Director of Gas, an influential nonprofit gallery based in Los Angeles, I developed a mobile, networked curatorial and organizational model operating both online and in a converted gallery truck — establishing its mission, governance, and funding strategies — while producing a nationally recognized exhibition program. Between 2017 and 2020, I curated ten exhibitions and numerous public programs at Gas featuring more than ninety artists, including the Institute of Queer Ecology, Young Joon Kwak, Nikita Gale, Hayley Barker, and Erick Medel, among many others. In 2023, I launched a comprehensive digital archive for Gas in collaboration with artist Lee Tusman and designer Caleb Stone, as part of the “Archiving Artist-Run Spaces” initiative focused on providing state-of-the-art digital preservation tools for independent arts organizations reliant on born-digital media. This interest in new models of exhibition-making and institution-building also influenced my vision for the Mandeville Art Gallery at UC San Diego as a “teaching gallery” for the 21st century promoting technologically innovative, democratic, accessible, equitable and socially-engaged means of artistic production and presentation. As Director and Chief Curator, I successfully led the planning, execution, and management of the Mandeville Art Gallery’s re-opening following a long period of closure due to a $10 million dollar renovation.

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 scholarly research broadly concerns the societal implications of technology and how computerized logic influences contemporary art production, with particular attention to media theory, curatorial practice and hybrid artistic practices. My first peer-reviewed book Expanded Internet Art: Twenty-First Century Artistic Practice and the Informational Milieu is published through the Bloomsbury Academic series “International Texts in Critical Media Aesthetics.” My writing has appeared in Artforum, Art in America, ArtAsiaPacific, The Wire, CURA, Momus, Rhizome and various exhibition catalogues. I regularly give talks about my work at conferences, festivals and universities, for instance at the College Art Association (CAA) conference, the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA), Gray Area Festival, and the Feminist Art Project (TFAP). I am also a dedicated educator with extensive experience teaching in higher education, and I have held 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. I have a strong professional network in California and the west, as well as nationally and internationally. Past curatorial and research residencies abroad include HIAP (Helsinki, Finland), Aarhus Billedkunstcenter (Aarhus, Denmark), Kai Art Center (Tallinn, Estonia), Rupert (Vilnius, Lithuania), PAF (St. Erme, France) and CAMP (Aulus-les-bains, France). These experiences have furthered my engagement with international artists and institutions, and continue to inform my global perspective.