VALS: Jovanna Venegas

UCLA Visiting Artist Lecture Series. Free and open to the public.

From 2017 to 2023, Venegas worked at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, concluding her tenure as the Associate Curator of Contemporary Art. While at SFMOMA, she curated commissioned projects with Fernando Palma Rodríguez (2023) and Liz Hernández (2021) and co-organized Wu Tsang Presents: Moved by the Motion (2021); Shifting the Silence (2022); the 2022 SECA Art Award; and Sitting on Chrome: Mario Ayala, rafa esparza, and Guadalupe Rosales (2023-2024). AAdditionally, she served as a curatorial advisor for the Whitney Biennial 2022, with a focus on the U.S./Mexico border region. She holds a BA in Art History from the University of California at Los Angeles and an MA in Curatorial Practice from the School of Visual Arts, New York.

UCLA Margo Leavin Graduate Art Studios
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