Experience

KADIST

• United States
• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director, San Francisco

  • Aug 2021 - Present

  KADIST is a non-profit organization that supports contemporary artists through acquisition, residencies, and exhibitions. It operates out of San Francisco and Paris, and actively collaborates with art centers and museums around the world to create dialogue on the intersection of art and society.
  
  • Manage full-time staff of three (Program Manager, Collection Manager, Communications Manager/Asia Program Manager), part-time staff of three (Production Manager, Exhibition Coordinator, Gallery Associate), two collection fellows.
  • Serve on the non-profit arts organization’s six-person steering committee, drafting and implementing strategic plan including long-term international museum collaborations, and annual international art space grantmaking.
  • Set yearly operating budget; manage Production Manager and Installation team to adhere to installation schedule and budget.
  • Produce and manage San Francisco exhibitions and collection displays, and international collaborations in North America, Latin America, Europe.
  • Conceive and produce public in-person and online programming, such as screening series, performances, and talks.
  • Manage and liaise with local, national and international collaborations, including curators, arts organizations and museums, on co-presentations and co-commissions.
  • Manage year-round acquisition meetings of contemporary artworks, with around 100 artworks per year, into KADIST collection of over 2,200 works.
  • Liaise with advisors from North America, Latin America.
  • Oversee acquisition process with Director of Collection and Collection Manager; liaise with artists and galleries; manage acquisition agreements, certificates of authenticity, shipping and storage, invoicing and payment. Show less



Independent Curator

• Fine Art
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Independent Curator

  • Jun 2010 - Present

  Ongoing • Beirut and London-based artist Joe Namy’s research and exhibition project around the archive of Egyptian musician Halim El-Dabh, a pioneer in tape music with Expression of Zaar (1940). 2020-2021 Fire/Flies, FotoFocus Biennial, US (cancelled due to COVID-19) • Four-site exhibition situating the Midwest as a site for interrogating power through photographic practices. Venues: Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; The Carnegie, Covington, Kentucky; Columbus Museum of Art; Beeler Gallery. Curatorial team: Jo-ey Tang; Renée Musai of Autograph, London, UK; Valentine Umansky, formerly of Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati and current curator at Tate Modern, London. • Artists: Heba Amin, Sophia Al Maria, Obayomi Anthony, Sammy Baloji, Bruno Boudjelal, Kudzanai Chiurai, Jeanette Elhers, Joy Episalla, EPOXY Art Group, Lungiswa Gqunta, Alfredo Jarr, Lebohang Kganye, Zanele Muholi, Mame Diarra Niang, Frida Orupabo, Thomas J. Price, Aida Silvestri, SMITH, Carrie Yamaoka, Constantina Zavitsanos. 2016 More Than Lovers, More Than Friends, FUTURA Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague, CZ 2013 Forming the Loss in Darkness, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris, FR • Part of city-wide project initiated by Palais de Tokyo, Paris. 2010 Windblown Jackie Anniversary Central Park Stroll, with reading by Wayne Koestenbaum, The Notary Public and Central Park, New York, US. Show less



arms ache avid aeon : fierce pussy amplified

• Curator

  • Jan 2015 - Present

  2015-2018
  Research supported by residencies at Rupert, Vilnius, Lithuania; and Denniston Hill, Woodridge, New York, US
  
  2018–ongoing
  arms ache avid aeon: Nancy Brooks Brody / Joy Episalla / Zoe Leonard / Carrie Yamaoka: fierce pussy amplified
  
  Dedicated to the individual art practices of the four original core members of fierce pussy, a New York-based queer art collective, the project tracks each artist’s work from the late 1980s to the present and draws upon the collective power, shared tactics, and diversity of their works. It is the first time the works of the four artists are put into direct inquiry. A gallery containing the archive of fierce pussy puts into context the relationship between individual and collective practices, between personal and political agencies.
  
  Chapters One to Four: Beeler Gallery at Columbus College of Art & Design, US, 2018-19
  
  Related programming:
  • arms ache avid aeon: A Symposium. Participants: Jill H. Casid, Jonah Groeneboer, Thomas J. Lax, Elisabeth Lebovici, Jo-ey Tang.
  
  • The first American Midwest concert by artist, musician, and trans activist Mx Justin Vivian Bond at the historic Southern Theatre in Downtown Columbus.
  
  Chapter Five: Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, US, 2019 (co-organized with ICA’s Anthony Elms)
  
  Related programming:
  • Thinking Out Loud in Public, panel. Panelists: Jill H. Casid, Anthony Elms, Jeannine Tang, Jo-ey Tang.
  
  Chapter Six: A Book
  • Commissioned writing by Gregg Bordowitz, Jill H. Casid, Jonah Groeneboer, Alhena Katsof, Thomas J. Lax, Elisabeth Lebovici, Jeannine Tang, and Jo-ey Tang. Edited by Jo-ey Tang
  Production grant supported by Graham Foundation.
  for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.
  
  Chapter Seven: Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR, 2023
  
  Chapter Eight: Participant Inc., New York, 2025. Publication support by Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation. Show less



Book Editor

• United States
• Book and Periodical Publishing

• Book Editor

  • Jul 2014 - Present

  DUST: The Plates of the Present, edited by Jo-ey Tang, Florian Ebner, Thomas Fougeirol. Leipzig, Germany: Spector Books and Centre Pompidou, 2020. shelf documents: art library as practice, edited by Heide Hinrichs, Jo-ey Tang, Elizabeth Haines. Antwerp, Belgium: TRACK at Royal Academy of Fine Arts, 2021. Eloise Sweetman: Curatorial Feelings, edited by Jo-ey Tang. Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Shimmer, 2021. arms ache avid aeon: Nancy Brooks Brody / Joy Episalla / Zoe Leonard / Carrie Yamaoka: fierce pussy amplified, edited by Jo-ey Tang, upcoming. Inside China - L’Intérieur du Géant, Palais de Tokyo / K11 Art Foundation Hong Kong / chi K11 Art Foundation, edited by Jo-ey Tang. Hong Kong: K11 Art Foundation: 2014 / 2015 / 2015. Show less



Freelance, self-employed

• Animation and Post-production
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Teaching / Academic Committees / Lectures

  • May 2008 - Present

  Teaching, Academic Committees -MFA studio visits, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2020 (via Zoom) -MFA, Image Text Ithaca, Ithaca College, thesis exhibition course, 2020 -MFA Thesis Exhibition Course, Columbus College of Art & Design, 2018 and 2019 -Committee Chair and Member for 3 MFA candidates, Columbus College of Art & Design, 2018 and 2019 -Photography through Paris, undergraduate course, Paris School of Art, 2016 Symposia, Talks, Panels -Lecture, Sculptures/Dialogue, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2020 (via Zoom) -Panel, Thinking Out Loud in Public, with Jill H. Casid, Jeannine Tang, Anthony Elms, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, 2019 -Organized arms ache avid aeon: A Symposium. Participants: Jill H. Casid, Elisabeth Lebovici, Thomas J. Lax, Alhena Katsof, Joy Episalla, Nancy Brooks Brody, Zoe Leonard, Carrie Yamaoka, Ian Ruffino, Beeler Gallery at Columbus College of Art & Design, 2019 -Lecture, second shelf, Royal Academy of Art, Antwerp, Belgium, 2019 -Panel, Curating from Off-Center: A conversation with Babacar Diop, Tyler Cann, and Jo-ey Tang, Art History Department, Ohio State University, US, 2018 -Lecture, Denison University, Granville, Ohio, US, 2018 -Lecture, Université de Lille, FR, Contemporary Art Exhibition and Production Masters Program, 2017 -Artist Talk, Class of Charlotte Moth (via Skype), Royal Academy of Art, London, 2015 -Artist Talk, Class of Agnes Lux, New York University Berlin, 2015 Visiting Critic/Visiting Artist -Sculptures/Dialogues, School of the Art of Institute of Chicago, 2020 -Visiting Critic, MFA Painting Department, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, 2013 -Adjunct Professor, New York University Steinhardt School: Introduction to Black/White Photography; Introduction to Color Photography; Special Photographic Projects, 2009-2011 -Visiting Critic for Final Portfolio Review, BFA Photography Department, Parsons The New School for Design, New York, 2008 Show less



Artforum International

• United States
• Fine Art
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Freelance Art Writer (1) - Artforum International

  • Dec 2013 - Present

  · Write exhibition reviews and interviews, with an emphasis on emerging artists, women artists, artist-run spaces, and new galleries · Review exhibitions internationally, with particular knowledge of artistic scenes in France, Brussels, San Francisco Bay Area, New York City, Hong Kong, China, and Southeast Asia 500 Words: · 500 Words, Heide Hinrichs, Kathmandu Triennale, 3/17 · 500 Words, Jean-Luc Moulène, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 11/16 · 500 Words, Josephine Halvorson, Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, New York, US, 8/16 Critics' Picks: · Rodrigo Hernández, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg, Germany, 11/16 · Walter Pfeiffer, Galerie Sultana, Paris, 10/16 · Dorian Gaudin, PACT, Paris, 10/16 · Jacopo Miliani, La Plage, Paris, 8/16 · Emmanuel Lagarrigue, Dilecta, Paris, 4/16 · Oscar Tuazon, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, 3/16 · Carissa Rodriguez, Wattis Institute, San Francisco, 1/16 · Quintessa Matranga & Rafael Delacruz, Et al., San Francisco, 1/16 · Pratchaya Phinthong, gb agency, Paris, 6/15 · La référence d’objet n’est pas définie à une instance d’un objet, Galerie Éduoard-Manet, École Municipale des Beaux-Arts, Gennvilliers, France, 1/15 · Emmanuelle Lainé, c-o-m-p-o-s-i-t-e, Brussels, 12/14 · Elaine Cameron-Weir, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, 10/14 · Yu Bogong and Hua Weihua, Action Space, Beijing, 6/14 · Valerie Snobeck, Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels, 12/13 · Robin Cameron, Lefebvre et Fils, Paris, 12/13 Show less



Freelance

• Egypt
• Human Resources
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Freelance Art Writer (2) - Exhibition/Catalog/Magazine

  • 2011 - Present

  Museum & Gallery exhibition/catalog text: · Climate Changing, artist guide, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, 2021 · Yu Ji, monograph, published by Sadie Coles, London, 2021 · Alfred d'Ursel, exhibition text, S.M.A.K, Ghent, Belgium, 2018 · Éric Baudart, monograph, published by Eduoard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong and Valentin, Paris 2018 · Making Sense: 10 Years of Research in Art and Design at ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne, Switzerland, 2017 · Indrikis Gelzis, exhibition text, CINNNAMON, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2017 · Suzanne Silver: Codes and Contingencies, catalog text, published by Appendix, Columbus, US, 2018 · Hubert Marot, exhibition text, untilthen, Paris, 2016 · Robert Marshall, catalog text, Baxter St / Camera Club of New York, 2016 · Carlos Reyes, catalog text, White Flag Projects, St. Louis, US 2015 · Li Gang, catalog text, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne-Beijing, 2014 · Thomas Fougeirol, exhibition text, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris, 2013 Flash Art: · Exhibition review on Marie Angeletti, Galerie Eduoard Montassut, Paris, 9/16 · Exhibition review on David Ireland, San Francisco Art Institute/500 Capp Street, 3/16 · Artist profile on Yu Ji, 3/16 · Exhibition review on Samara Golden, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, 5/16 LEAP (bilingual English/Chinese): · Feature on Laura Owens, A Minor Heavens, 10/17 · Special project on Tyler Coburn, Ergonomic Futures, 4/17 · Feature: Art Taobao Hong Kong 2017, special Art Basel Hong Kong issue, 3/17 · Profile on Paris-based artist Thu Van Tran, 6/16 · Special project on Daiga Grantina, 6/16 · Feature: Wang Bing, Wattis Institute, San Francisco, 4/16 Kaleidoscope Asia: · Profile: Trevor Yeung, 3/16 This Is Tomorrow: · Enacting Populism In Its Mediæscape, curated by Matteo Luchetti, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, 2012 · The Feeling of Things, Le Plateau, Paris, 2012 · Jutta Koether, Campoli Presti, Paris, 2011 The Brooklyn Rail: · Melissa Vogley Woods, 10/20 Show less



Denniston Hill

• United States
• Entertainment Providers

• Digital Community Manager

  • Mar 2021 - Aug 2021

  • Founded by scholar Lawrence Chua and artists Julie Mehretu and Paul Pfeiffer, Denniston Hill is a 200-acre site in the Catskills, NY, established in 2004 by a group of primarily LGBTQ artists, architects, and writers of color interested in fostering dialogues across disciplines through residencies, and a wide range of public programs. • Develop and implement digital content and social media campaigns in conjunction with Denniston Hill digital conversations and upcoming programs and commissions both on site and in New York City, including Mary Ellen Carroll’s Public Utility 2.0; Maureen Connor and Landon Newton’s Reproductive Justice Garden; and three Exodus Commissions. • Upcoming Exodus Commissions are performance projects, including Dave McKenzie’s “Movement of “the” People,” Pamela Sneed’s “A Tribute to Big Mama Thornton,” the legacy of the Rock & Roll progenitor; Baseera Khan. • Manage digital content by supporting and advocating for Denniston Hill alumni, as well as content on issues of social justice, land justice and the arts through social media channels. • I was resident at Denniston Hill in 2015, and attended a two-semester MFA course “Community of Sense”, taught by Lawrence Chua at Denniston Hill in 2010-2011. Show less



Centre Pompidou

• France
• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Guest Curator

  • 2020 - 2021

  DUST: The Plates of the Present (co-founded with Thomas Fougeirol), October 2020 - March 2021 Co-curated with Florian Ebner, Emmanuelle Etchecopar-Echart, Daniel Mebarek (2020-2021). 1031 photograms and 1 video by 136 artists, entered the permanent collection of Centre Pompidou. DUST: The Plates of the Present (co-founded with Thomas Fougeirol), October 2020 - March 2021 Co-curated with Florian Ebner, Emmanuelle Etchecopar-Echart, Daniel Mebarek (2020-2021). 1031 photograms and 1 video by 136 artists, entered the permanent collection of Centre Pompidou.



DUST: The Plates of the Present

• Founder, Curator

  • May 2013 - 2021

  2013–2021 DUST: The Plates of the Present (co-founded with Thomas Fougeirol), Ivry-sur-Seine, FR • On view at Centre Pompidou until March 22, 2021 • 1031 photograms and 1 video by 136 artists, entered the permanent collection of Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR, in 2019, as a gift. • Exhibitions of the project: Baxter St / Camera Club of New York, US (curated by Sonel Breslav, 2015); Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris, FR (2017); Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR, co-curated with Florian Ebner, Emmanuelle Etchecopar-Echart, Daniel Mebarek (2020-2021). • Book, edited by Sonel Breslav. New York: Secretary Press / Blonde Art Books, 2015. • Catalogue, edited by Jo-ey Tang, Thomas Fougeirol, Florian Ebner. Paris, France: Centre Pompidou and Spector Books, 2020. Show less



Columbus College of Art & Design

• United States
• Higher Education
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Director of Exhibitions, Beeler Gallery

  • Jun 2017 - Mar 2020

  • Established an active site for contemporary art practices and contingent fields. Repositioned the institution with an experimental and agile format of “slow programming,” exhibitions, readings, performances, workshops, conversations, and screenings, with commissions by emerging and established artists. • Managed full-time Associate Director of Exhibitions, full-time Registrar, part-time Gallery Assistant, part-time Graduate Assistant, 15 undergraduate workers, and a team of contract workers, on operation of a 6,000-square-foot exhibition space and a 99-seat screening room. • Increased programming budget through new partnerships: Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania; Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation; Cultural Services of French Embassy in the United States; Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp; Denison University, Stonewall Columbus. • Introduced new visual identity, logo change, gallery website. Managed social media accounts and monthly newsletters. • Expanded media coverage: Artforum, Art in America, Contemporary Art Daily, MOUSSE, Art & Education. • First institutional exhibition of Black & Red Books and the Detroit Printing Co-Op. Organized with Danielle Aubert and Maia Asshaq. • Staples and Rubber Bands, Michel Auder and Michael Stickrod, world premiere of May ’68 in ’78, newly subtitled interviews on the 1968 student movement in France. • Laëtitia Badaut Haussman’s performance at 1940 Gunning House/Glenbrow, designed by Tony Smith, Theodore van Fossen, Laurence Cuneo. • Classroom Series, 2019 New York Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1, second shelf, Heide Hinrichs’ book acquisition project to increase library holdings by non-binary, female, and queer artists and artists of color, with 200 titles at Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp, and Beeler Gallery’s initiative at Packard Library. • An Art Book Affair (2018, 202) invited Mexico City’s Index Art Book Fair, Copenhagen’s One Thousand Books, and Detroit Art Book Fair. Show less



Institute of Contemporary Art at University of Pennsylvania

• United States
• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Guest Curator

  • 2019 - 2019

  Chapter Five: arms ache avid aeon: Nancy Brooks Brody / Joy Episalla / Zoe Leonard / Carrie Yamaoka: fierce pussy amplified Dedicated to the individual art practices of the four original core members of fierce pussy, a New York-based queer art collective, the project tracks each artist’s work from the late 1980s to the present and draws upon the collective power, shared tactics, and diversity of their works. It is the first time the works of the four artists are put into direct inquiry. A gallery containing the archive of fierce pussy puts into context the relationship between individual and collective practices, between personal and political agencies. Co-organized with ICA’s Anthony Elms Related programming: • Thinking Out Loud in Public, panel. Panelists: Jill H. Casid, Anthony Elms, Jeannine Tang, Jo-ey Tang. Show less



Palais de Tokyo

• France
• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Curator

  • Jan 2014 - Dec 2015

  • Inaugurating curator of three-year partnerships with two international foundations, both remotely and on site visits: Total Corporate Foundation (Paris and Singapore), K11 Art Foundation (Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, Wuhan). International Projects • Conceived and curated Palais de Tokyo’s first international traveling exhibition, Inside China - L’Intérieur du Géant, as a flexible platform that welcomed additional artists in each subsequent location. • Palais de Tokyo, 2014 (co-curated with K11 appointed Wang Chun-chen) • K11 Art Foundation Pop-Up Space, Cosco Tower, Hong Kong, 2015 (co-curated with K11 Wang Chun-chen) • chi K11 Art Museum, Shanghai, 2015 (co-curated with K11 appointed Victor Wang) Paris · Zhao Yao, Vitrines sur l’art, Galeries Lafayette · Chan Aye: Aurore, Intervention on the Building at the Métopes · Urgent Dreams on Crashing Waves, an evening program of sound and image · Item Idem (Cyril Duval) and Cheng Ran, façade video projection of Joss Performances · Cheng Ran, Always I Trust (A re-arranged live performance) · Yu Ji and Yan Jun, K11 Art Foundation Pop-Up Space, Hong Kong · Zhao Yao, opening performance, chi K11 Art Museum, Shanghai · Aude Pariset and Edwin Lo, sound walk, on streets of Hong Kong Inside China - L’Intérieur du Géant • Palais de Tokyo (consulting co-curator Wang Chunchen, CAFA Museum, Beijing) • Inside China - L’Intérieur du Géant, K11 Art Foundation Pop-Up Space, Cosco Tower, Hong Kong (consulting co-curator Wang Chunchen, K11 Art Foundation) • Inside China - L’Intérieur du Géant, chi K11 Art Museum, Shanghai, China (co-curator Victor Wang, K11 Art Foundation) • Researched and conducted over 150 studio visits in emerging artistic scenes in 17 cities: Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, Myanmar, Singapore, France, and Germany. • Served on search and selection committee of residency program Le Pavillon, with invitation of Myanmar artist Aung Ko and Chinese artist Yu Ji, for 2014-2015 and 2015-2016 sessions. Show less



Kadist Art Foundation

• United States
• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Independent Video Producer

  • 2012 - 2015

  • Interviewed and documented through videos the studio practices of artists in the foundation’s contemporary art collection, disseminated on website and as part of the foundation’s archive. • Artists: Barbara Bloom, Gabriel Kuri, Pratchaya Phinthong, R.H. Quaytman, Maaike Schoorel. • Exhibited within collection artists’ museum exhibitions, at San José Museum of Art; Gemeentemuseum, The Hague. • Interviewed and documented through videos the studio practices of artists in the foundation’s contemporary art collection, disseminated on website and as part of the foundation’s archive. • Artists: Barbara Bloom, Gabriel Kuri, Pratchaya Phinthong, R.H. Quaytman, Maaike Schoorel. • Exhibited within collection artists’ museum exhibitions, at San José Museum of Art; Gemeentemuseum, The Hague.



n+1

• France
• Restaurants
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Arts & Photo Editor

  • Feb 2009 - Feb 2014

  · Researched and commissioned artists for visuals to illustrate non-fiction and fiction writing for literary journal · Writers include Sheila Heti, Benjamin Kunkel, Keith Gessen, and Mark Greif · Selected and commissioned artworks by visual artists, including Francis Alÿs, Lucas Blalock, K8 Hardy, Melanie Smith, and Colby Bird for 12 issues · Researched and commissioned artists for visuals to illustrate non-fiction and fiction writing for literary journal · Writers include Sheila Heti, Benjamin Kunkel, Keith Gessen, and Mark Greif · Selected and commissioned artworks by visual artists, including Francis Alÿs, Lucas Blalock, K8 Hardy, Melanie Smith, and Colby Bird for 12 issues



Art21

• United States
• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Intern, Production Assistant

  • Mar 2003 - May 2003

  Internship during Season 2 of “Art in the Twenty-First Century: Time” including as on-set production assistant on segment featuring artist Paul Pfeiffer. Internship during Season 2 of “Art in the Twenty-First Century: Time” including as on-set production assistant on segment featuring artist Paul Pfeiffer.