EXHIBITIONS + PROGRAMMING HIGHLIGHTS:
Exhibition Reflections: Diana Markosian, Wu Tsang & Joan Mitchell, SFMOMA, October - December 2021. Watch the conversation between Steven Yeun (actor), Diana Markosian (artist) and Chris Gayomali (writer, GQ)
Dances for Camera: Merce Cunningham, Nam June Paik, John Sanborn, SFMOMA, June - August, 2021.
Assembly of Images: On Histories of Race and Representation, SFMOMA, February - April 2021. Co-presented by San Francisco Cinematheque.
Always Moving: African American Portraiture in Film, co-curated with San Francisco Cinematheque, March - April 2021.
No Time to Rest! SFMOMA, November - December 2020. Co-curated with Rudolf Frieling, Curator of Media Arts, SFMOMA.
Agnès Varda: An Irresistible Force, SFMOMA, co-presented with BAMPFA, January - March 2020.
Rhythms From Life: Jia Zhangke, SFMOMA, January - February 2018, co-presented with BAMPFA.
Turn it On: China on Film, 2000-2017, SFMOMA, January 2019. (compiled from documentaries selected by Ai Wei Wei) Co-presented with Kanopy.
Voices Carry: Women in Film, SFMOMA, September - November 2019.
Far Out on Film, SFMOMA, November - December 2019.
Silver Screen, SFMOMA, September 2019 - February 2020.
Haunted! Gothic Tales by Women, SFMOMA, July - August 2019.
Bay Area Experimental Film + Video: Inner Spaces - All These Places, curated for Hunter’s Point Shipyard (SF, CA), May 2018. Co-curated with Ryanaustin Dennis. Watch the full program here.
What Have We Here, curated for Design Within Reach, October 2018, co-presented with SF Cinematheque.
Terror Tuesdays at Alamo Drafthouse, SF: programmed Messiah of Evil, dir: Willard Huyck, 1973 and Alice Sweet Alice, dir: Alfred Sole, 1976 (both in 2017).
Moving Portraits: Films and Short Works by Mike Mills, part of Project Los Altos, SFMOMA. Presented at Roxie Theater, SF. January 26, 2014.
I Was a Teenage Teenager, Roxie Theater (SF, CA), January 2014. Co-curated with Mike Keegan. Read our interview here.
This Must Be the Place, Roxie Theater (SF, CA), July 2012 - 2014. Co-curated with Mike Keegan.
Guest programmer, Northwest Film Forum (Seattle, WA), June - September 2016.
Rise and Fall - Teenage Corruption Classics!, Roxie Theater (SF, CA), October 2013. Co-curated with Mike Keegan.
Kids on the Boundaries, presented at the Castro Theater, in conjunction with Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera Since 1870 at SFMOMA, October 2010.
Kenneth Anger: Restored Prints, SFMOMA, December 2009.
The Future of the Past: Utopia/Dystopia: SFMOMA, March - April 2009.
Selected press:
Variable West staff pick
Squarecylinder by Jaimie Baron
San Francisco Chronicle Datebook Pick by Tony Bravo
San Francisco Chronicle Jan 2022 Art & Exhibit highlight on Image Gardeners and seen only, heard only through someone else’s description
KQED feature, New Year, New Art: What to see in the Bay Area this month
Production Credits:
Lead producer for Mika Tajima & the New Human’s Today is Not a Dress Rehearsal, SFMOMA, May 2009. Featured on art21. Collection of SFMOMA, Media Arts.
Writings + Recs:
Film Threads on SFMOMA: Expressions of LGBTQ+ Identity in Cinema
Film Threads on SFMOMA: Family Ties
Film Threads on SFMOMA: Closeness + Intimacy
Zombies, Vampires, Ghosts & Creeps, selected for SFMOMA’s Twitter + Instagram handles
Open Space: Living Room - A Tapestry of Time, Space, People
Open Space: More Boy Than Boy: Woman-Demon-Human (Ren qui quin)
Open Space: The Future of the Past: 1965-1984
sfstation: Gao Brothers - Old Haunts and New Visions