Jens Hoffmann

Jens Hoffmann joined the Jewish Museum in a newly created position as Deputy Director, Exhibitions and Programs in November 2012. Formerly Director of the CCA-Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco from 2007 to 2012 and Director of Exhibitions and Chief Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art in London from 2003 to 2007. […]

Carol Cheh

Carol Cheh is a writer and curator based in Los Angeles. She is the founder of Another Righteous Transfer!, a blog that explores LA’s performance art scene, and Word is a Virus, an Art21 column exploring the intersection between the visual and literary arts. Her writing has appeared in LA Weekly, KCET Artbound, ArtInfo, Art […]

Jessica Backus

Jessica Backus is the Director of Learning and The Art Genome Project at Artsy. The Art Genome Project is an ongoing study mapping the characteristics that connect the world’s artists and artworks. There are over 1,000 of these characteristics, including art-historical movements, subject matter, and formal qualities. The Art Genome Project is used by collectors, […]

Rob Greene

Rob Greene is the founder and director of Greene Exhibitions, a Los Angeles-based contemporary art gallery from 2012 to 2016. Rob grew up in the rural parts of West Virginia and Virginia until he began to study at Brigham Young University (BYU) in Provo UT. After a brief hiatus to serve a two-year mission for […]

Peter Pakesch

Peter Pakesch (July 16, 1955 in Graz, Styria) began studying architecture, but also was active early on as an artist. His first experiences as an exhibition curator were gathered in the Forum Stadtpark in Vienna from 1976 to 1979 and at the steirischerherbst. Time spent studying in New York in 1980 yielded important encounters and involvement in activities […]

Umbereen Inayet

Umbereen Inayet, MSW, is a playwright, social worker and prolific arts programmer. With a background in Cultural Anthropology, Women’s Studies and a Master in Social Work, she has worked on arts events for the City of Toronto including 175th Anniversary, Winterlicious, Doors Open, Canada Day, Pan Am, Cavalcade and the Indian International Film Awards. She […]

Naomi Campbell

Naomi Campbell is an award-winning producer of over sixty new Canadian performance works with companies including Nightswimming, Mammalian Diving Reflex, DVxT Theatre, the late Paul Bettis’ Civilized Theatre, VideoCabaret and numerous independent artists. She has produced national and international tours and was Industry Series Producer for the 2008 (Vancouver), 2009 (Ottawa) and 2010 (Kitchener-Waterloo) Magnetic […]

David Liss

David Liss is Artistic Director and Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada, since December 2000. Arriving from Montreal with a vision to create a permanent museum for contemporary art in Canada’s largest city, Liss evolved MOCA from modest beginnings in the Toronto suburb of North York, re-locating the museum to Queen St. […]

Mary Anna Pomonis

Mary Anna Pomonis is a Los Angeles Based Teaching Artist whose projects have encompassed varying forms, including performance, painting, writing, curating, and social practice. She teaches at Cal Arts in the Teaching Artists Institute, as well as at Cal State University, San Bernardino, and Hoover High School in Glendale, California. She is a founding member […]

Linda Norden

Linda Norden is a curator, writer and part-time professor of art history, theory and criticism currently teaching for the BFA and MFA programs at the Malmo Art Academy in Malmo, Sweden, and at Cornell University. Norden curated contemporary art at Harvard University’s Fogg Art Museum between 1998 and 2006; directed the City University of New […]