Originally from the Netherlands, Leonie Bradbury is a curator of contemporary art and has served as the director of Montserrat College of Art Galleries in Beverly, Mass., since 2005. Bradbury is a Ph.D. candidate in philosophy and art theory at the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts and is completing her dissertation “The [...]
Alexia Tala is an independent curator based in Santiago, Chile. She is currently co-curator of the 20th Bienal de Arte Paiz in Guatemala, curator of the Printmaking Collectors Club of Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and artistic director of Plataforma Atacama, an organization that addresses the relationship between art [...]
Scott Thorp is an artist, writer and educator specializing in creativity. He is chairperson of the Department of Art at Augusta University, as well as a contributing writer and editor for ARTPULSE. Additionally, he serves on the board of directors for Westobou Festival and is vice president of the Mid-America College Art Association. With an [...]
Louise Déry lives and works in Montréal. She holds a PhD in art history and is the director of the Galerie de l’UQAM (Université du Québec à Montréal). She has curated many projects in Canada, Europe and Asia featuring major artists, including Daniel Buren, Giuseppe Penone, Michael Snow, Nancy Spero, Shary Boyle, Dominique Blain and [...]
Noah Simblist is chair and associate professor of Art at SMU Meadows School of the Arts in Dallas. He works as a curator, writer and artist with a focus on the art and politics of Israel and Palestine and has contributed to Art Journal, Modern Painters, Art Papers, Art Lies, ARTPULSE, Art21 and other publications. [...]
Marketta Haila (formerly Seppälä) is currently an independent curator. She was founding director of the Pori Art Museum in Finland from 1979 to 1998, director of Frame Visual Art Finland Finnish Fund for Art Exchange from 1998 to 2010 and editorial director of Framework: The Finnish Art Review, published by Frame, from 2003 to 2010. [...]
Tobias Ostrander is chief curator and deputy director for curatorial affairs at the Pérez Art Museum Miami’s new Herzog and de Meuron-designed building. From 2009 to 2011, he was the director of El Museo Experimental El Eco in Mexico City after previously serving as the curator of contemporary art at the Museo Tamayo in Mexico [...]
Trained as a curator and an art historian, Claire Tancons practices curating as an expanded creative field and experiments with the political aesthetics of walking, marching, second lining, masquerading and parading in participatory processional performances. She has curated for a variety of established and emerging international biennials, including as the associate [...]
Maria Elena Buszek, Ph.D., is a scholar, critic, curator and associate professor of art history at the University of Colorado Denver. Her recent publications include the books Pin-Up Grrrls: Feminism, Sexuality, Popular Culture (Duke University Press Books, 2006) and Extra/Ordinary: Craft and Contemporary Art (Duke, 2011). She has also contributed writing to [...]
James Lough teaches nonfiction writing at the Savannah College of Art and Design in the writing department, which he formerly directed. His book This Ain’t No Holiday Inn: Down and Out in New York’s Chelsea 1980-1995 was published by Schaffner Press in 2013. He is also the author of Spheres of Awareness [...]
