I currently curate exhibitions and lead archive acquisitions for the Venice Heritage Museum, a grassroots initiative dedicated to preserving the stories of the Venice community. Highlights: 

• This is some place (2024–25). Inaugural public exhibition presenting a historical survey of the Venice neighborhood, featured in the L.A. Times, LAist, Santa Monica Daily Mirror, and The Argonaut.

• VHM Film Festival (2024).

• Rod Bradley: Photographs, Late 1960s–Early 1980s (2023). Preview exhibition featuring the rarely seen work of an underrecognized local street photographer.

At the Wende Museum of the Cold War, I was given primary oversight of the Curatorial, Collections, Finance, and Operations Departments that run this ambitious arts venue and world-renowned archive of Eastern Bloc material culture.

• During my time at this mid-sized museum, I managed concurrent multi-year, grant-funded projects supporting acquisitions, collection care, archive digitization, education programming, and endowment growth.
  

• The museum’s public activity emphasized exhibitions both in-person and in virtual form, including:
  

  • Transformations: Living Room –> Flea Market –> Museum –> Art (2020–21)

  • See Thy Neighbor: Stern Photographers Thomas Hoepker and Harald Schmitt in the GDR (2020–21)

  • Questionable History (2021–22)
    

• Additionally, the museum produced dozens of online programs during the Covid-19 closure, such as the Cold War Spaces talk series. 

• I supported the Executive Director and the Board during the pre-construction phases of the Glorya Kaufman Community Center.

MAK Center is the California satellite of the Museum of Applied Arts (MAK) in Vienna, Austria. As Deputy Director (2014–19), Programs Manager (2010–14), and Programs Coordinator (2009), I had executive responsibility for exhibitions, operations, publications, and residency programming.

• Curatorial management for over fifty exhibitions, from contemporary art to presentations of historical material, with three different contributions to the Getty's Pacific Standard Time initiative. Highlights:
  

  • Fiona Connor: Closed Down Clubs (2018)

  • How to Read El Pato Pascual: Disney’s Latin America and Latin America’s Disney by Jesse Lerner and Rubén Ortiz Torres (2017)

  • Routine Pleasures by Michael Ned Holte (2016)

  • House Housing: An Untimely History of Architecture and Real Estate in Thirty-one Episodes by Reinhold Martin with Jacob Moore and Susanne Schindler (2016)

  • Erwin Wurm: One Minute Sculptures (2016)

  • A Vast Furniture by Carmen Argote (2015; curated with Adam Peña and Aurora Tang)

  • Los Bar by Andreas Bauer, Christoph Meier, Robert Schwarz, and Lukas Stopczynski (2015)

  • Begin Again, Begin Again by Renée Green (2015)

  • Everything Loose Will Land: 1970s Art and Architecture in Los Angeles by Sylvia Lavin (2013)

  • Plan your visit (2013; curated with Adam Peña)

  • Garage Exchange: Vienna–Los Angeles (ongoing collaborative exhibition series beginning in 2012). Example presentations include Spomenici revolucije: Marko Lulić / Sam Durant (2015),Past Future Housing: Morgan Fisher / Karina Nimmerfall (2016), Gravity’s Peacock: Johann Lurf / Brice Bischoff (2017).

  • Sympathetic Seeing: Esther McCoy and the Heart of American Modernist Architecture & Design by Kimberli Meyer and Susan Morgan (2011)

  • 91 92 93 by Andrea Fraser, Simon Leung, and Lincoln Tobier (2011)

  • How Many Billboards? Art In Stead by ​​Kimberli Meyer with Lisa Henry, Nizan Shaked, and Gloria Sutton (2010)

• I directed the L.A. side of the international Artists and Architects-in-Residence program, working with ninety participants over ten years to provide project resources and critical feedback. Together with residents and the MAK team, I organized eighteen Final Projects group exhibitions of work by residency program participants from 2010–19.

• I collaborated with the MAK Center Executive Director, the Austrian Federal Ministry, and consultants to oversee historic preservation of architect R.M. Schindler’s Fitzpatrick House (1936) and Mackey Apartments (1939) as well as complete construction of the Garage Top (2010).

• 2020 — DEMO, an exhibition that I co-curated with Priscilla Fraser at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture in West Hollywood, CA, featuring works by Nazgol Ansarinia, Margarethe Drexel, Lexis-Olivier Ray, and Yan Tomaszewski.
  

• 2019 — I was a participant in the Curatorial Forum at EXPO Chicago organized by Independent Curators International.
  

• 2015–2016 — invitation of sorts, a collaboration with Shoghig Halajian and Suzy Halajian wherein we invited Los Angeles-area colleagues to present in-progress artistic works, thematic discussions, or newly commissioned writing in a series spanning two years. Contributors included Erin Christovale and Amir George, Robert Crouch, Jennifer Doyle, rafa esparza, Raquel Gutiérrez, Victor Jones, Gelare Khoshgozaran, Bradford Nordeen and Clara López Menéndez, taisha paggett, Tracy Jeanne Rosenthal, A.L. Steiner, Dorian Wood, Mimi Zeiger, among others.
  

• 2012–2013 — I was part of Assembly, a team of artists, curators, and an architect that collaborated on projects and publications. We presented six exhibitions together at 2045 S. La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles, including ones curated by Tom Jimmerson/TOMWORK such as Vern Blosum: Out of Order, Paintings 1962–1964 (2013). Together with Orhan Ayyüce, I co-curated Glen Small: Recovery Room (2013).