EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS
Public Knowledge, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, June 2017—June 2019. Award-winning, NEH-funded multifaceted public humanities initiative in partnership with the San Francisco Public Library. Co-curator: Dominic Willsdon. Summary essay here. Commissioned projects included:
Take Part by Bik Van der Pol
Lit TV by Minerva Cuevas
Civic Data Solidarity by Burak Arikan
Added Value: An Alternative Book Sale by Stephanie Syjuco with Related Tactics and Rick and Megan Prelinger
Hit Parade by Josh Kun
Nothing Stable under Heaven, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Mar–Sep 2018. Co-curators: Joseph Becker, Jenny Gheith, Adam Ryan and Tanya Zimbardo
To Those Who Have Eyes To See: Andrea Geyer, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Feb–Aug 2017
Can We Talk About Art? by Amanda Eicher, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, October 2015
Chimurenga Library, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art/San Francisco Public Library, May 2014. Co-curator: Dominic Willsdon
Futurist Library, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK, Sep 2013
Sajjil: A Century of Modern Art, Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar, Dec 2010–Oct 2011. Co-curators: Wassan Al-Khudhairi, Nada Shabout
PUBLIC EVENTS AND SYMPOSIA
Night of Ideas, with the San Francisco Public Library, the French Consulate, SFMOMA and KQED, San Francisco Public Library, February 2019
Hacking Politics with the Berkeley Center for New Media, SFMOMA, Boalt School of Law and the Graduate School of Journalism, UC Berkeley, October 2018
Added Value: An Alternative Book Sale, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, September 2018
Exploring Public Art Practices, Kenneth Rainin Foundation at the Oakland Museum of California, March 2018. Co-organizer: Weston Teruya
Public Knowledge Talks series, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, October 2017—December 2018
Does Art Have Users? in partnership with Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and the Arte Util Association, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, September 2017. Co-organizer: Alessandra Saviotti
The Photographic Event, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, September 2016. Co-organizers: Corey Keller and Dominic Willsdon
Meeting Points, Rincon Annex and Maritime Museum, San Francisco, CA, October 2015
Creative Research Workshop series, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2015
Future City, a Pop-Up Mathaf in partnership with Liverpool Biennial, Tate Liverpool and Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK, September 2013
Continuous City: Mapping Arab Literature in London, a Pop-Up Mathaf in partnership with Serpentine Galleries, London, UK, July 2013
Same Same but Different: The Role of the Artist as Social Critic in the Arab World and Japan, a Pop-Up Mathaf in partnership with Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, September 2012
Interference, a Pop-Up Mathaf on art and activism in the Arab world, in partnership with Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK, July 2011