As a curator, My practice integrates community collaboration, storytelling, and site-responsive projects to create inclusive and participatory art experiences. I am particularly interested in the possibilities of building and curating in spaces beyond museums and traditional art institutions that can cultivate civic dialogue, decolonial thought, mutual care, and collective imagination. I strive to challenge the traditional ways art is presented in institutions, aiming to bridge the gap between objects and viewers. By addressing the alienation often felt in museum settings, I want exhibitions to invite visitors to connect with art in personal and reflective ways.
I aim for my curation to spark dialogue and foster critical engagement. By creating workshops, programming and activities unique to each exhibition, along with exhibition design, educational texts and guided walkthroughs, I seek to create spaces that facilitate reflection on both personal and collective histories, while offering opportunities for meaningful interaction with the work.
“Tempo Giusto” invites us to embrace the slow, thoughtful, and intentional approach to time. Drawing from the Italian term for playing music at the “right” tempo, the exhibition brings together artists whose work encourages us to engage deeply with experiences, places, and interactions. Through video, botanical sculptures, embroidery and mending their pieces remind us to slow down, resist rushing, and cultivate a more patient, meaningful connection with the world.
April 2025, Littman Gallery
This exhibition, featuring a collection of self-portraits by Sam Marroquin, Ketzia Schoneberg, Khytul Abyad, and Lou Blumberg, challenges the idea of the self as a distinct, isolated entity and explores the complex relationship between individual and collective identity.
January 2025, Littman Gallery
This exhibition features the works of Japanese American artist Mai Ide, navigating the complexities of being a “forever foreigner” in the U.S. Ide’s work delves into themes of identity, cultural intersectionality, and societal expectations, inviting viewers to reflect on how these forces shape personal and collective experiences.
November 2024, Littman and White Galleries
In this spring exhibition, I curate the white gallery, a hallway in Portland State’s Student Union building, to celebrate the arrival of the sun. Vancouver-based artist Sharon Svec uses sunlight to create solarized prints on fabric, blending the digital and natural worlds. Her unique technique, involving photo negatives and stenciled layers, invites reflection on nature’s ephemeral beauty and the interplay between the organic and digital realms.
March 2025, White Gallery
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