For eight decades, Montalvo has supported artists and their creative work through its residency program. In 2004, Montalvo relaunched this program as the Sally and Don Lucas Artists residency program. Today we host artists and creative practitioners from around the world, including writers, visual artists, composers, culinary artists, scholars and curators, and support them to create and present new work. We believe artists are an essential transformative force in the world and that the arts elevate the human spirit, unite people of diverse backgrounds, facilitate challenging conversations, and enrich our community. Every month, we spotlight the important work of our Lucas Artists Fellows and Artists in Residence in this moment. Cassils. Human Measure. 2021. Photo: Manuel Vason
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As September comes to a close, we are excited to share with you some of the significant achievements, projects and exhibitions of our Lucas Artists Program Alumni. Karla Diaz. Rebozo and Hijab. 2021
Photo courtesy of Leah Rosenberg. This August, we are excited to share with you and celebrate some of the significant achievements of our Lucas Artists Program alumni, which include projects, exhibitions, performances, and awards.
Foraging for a Future Since their conversation in our May episode of Scratch Space about Foraging for a Future, their joint cookbook which began in the LAP, these artists have accomplished a great deal!
This June, we celebrate the varied achievements of Lucas Artists Program alumni which include new projects, exhibitions, performances and awards as we wish you all a happy LGBTQ+ Pride Month and celebrate the national recognition of Juneteenth. Christy Chan
Lava Thomas
In recognition of Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month, and the unacceptable increase in hate crimes targeting this community, we celebrate the important voices and recent successes of some of our Lucas Artists Program AAPI alumni—including new exhibitions, public art projects, books, and albums.
Jen Shyu
Jenifer K. Wofford
Imin Yeh
You can also revisit episodes of our virtual conversation series Scratch Space featuring AAPI voices in episodes 4, 9, 10, 12, 15, and 18.
— Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong Dear friends, Within the Bay Area, and across the country—attacks against Asian Americans have been on an alarming rise. We at Montalvo condemn racism and xenophobia in all forms. We condemn this shocking surge of anti-Asian hate crimes. We stand in firm solidarity with the Asian American and Pacific Islander community because we believe everyone has the right to live without fear, and any act of violence against one of us, is an act of violence against us all. For the past 18 months, we have been engaged with the SEED Collaborative, an equity and access consulting firm to work with our staff and Board. We are learning about our blind spots, and examining everything we do. We are looking critically at ourselves and our place. We recognize the important role we have to play in acknowledging the racist conduct against the Asian community by our founding benefactor, Senator James D. Phelan. Upon his death in 1930, Phelan gave “the buildings and property known as Villa Montalvo to be a public park for the people of California to be used as far and wide as possible for promising students in art, music, literature and architecture.” We choose to see this directive as inclusive of all people. We are developing a series of outreach programs through our Lucas Artist Residency that will openly explore and engage conversations in our founding history and its ties to racism. We will continue to have these conversations, not for a week or a month, but as part of our foundational vision to make Montalvo a place where all people feel a sense of belonging. We will invite our local community, our artists, and you to join us in these conversations. We hope these conversations inspire people to reflect upon their attitudes and behavior, and seek those necessary changes to make our world a more accepting, inclusive, and multicultural community. Cathy Park Hong, author of Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning, encourages us to listen. We are listening, and we commit to action. Angela A. McConnell Executive Director Resources & Places to Donate Stop AAPI Hate
#StopAsianHate Go Fund Me Red Canary Song How to Help Combat Anti-Asian Violence (Time Magazine) How to Stop Asian Hate (Asian American Arts Alliance) Stand Against Hatred Resources Asian Americans Advancing Justice Anti-Asian Violence Resources Asian Pacific Islander American Public Affairs Resources Send Chinatown Love Feed + Fuel Chinatown 2.0 Chinese Progressive Association Photo: Isaiah Plaza Gifted by the deceased artist's wife Danae Mattes, it is the second De Staebler to join their collection SARATOGA, CA (10 November 2020)--Montalvo Arts Center welcomes the addition of One Legged Woman Standing by internationally renowned sculptor Stephen De Staebler (1933-2011) to its permanent collection, a generous gift of artist Danae Mattes. Anchoring the base of Montalvo’s Great Lawn are three statues original to the estate, circa 1915. Originally four sculptures designed in the Neoclassical style, they depict the horae--Greek goddesses of the seasons. The “Winter” statue of the set was felled in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake and its whereabouts remain unknown. Temporary installations have occasionally taken its place, such as in 2015’s exhibition Metaphoric States: Five Bronze Works by Stephen De Staebler, when One Legged Woman Standing first graced the empty plinth. Organized with Dolby Chadwick Gallery and the estate of Stephen De Staebler, it was Montalvo’s first association with the seminal sculptor of the California Clay movement. One Legged Woman Standing (1982) was one of De Staebler’s earliest works after shifting his material from clay to bronze. Like many of his bronze works, she was created from fragments of legs and feet and hips and torsos, originally made from clay and wax, which compiled De Staebler’s “library” of sources. He would add, subtract, and modify to create his bronze works, as if he were still “modeling” the material—a process De Staebler developed which became his signature aesthetic. When selecting the works for Metaphoric States, Kelly Sicat, Director of the Lucas Artists Program at Montalvo, discovered the sculpture in the back racks of De Staebler’s storage and knew without doubt that she had found the ideal companion for Montalvo’s Four Seasons. “I knew the scale of the petite figure would be a perfect fit for the empty plinth, and I was excited to position her with the three remaining Seasons. The One Legged Women Standing embodies the ideas of perfection in imperfection that were so significant to De Staebler, and complement the visible erosion of time which adorn the three remaining statues.” The fit was so great, in fact, that Danae Mattes, De Staebler’s widow, felt the plinth should eventually become One Legged Woman Standing’s permanent home, where she deftly weaves together the historic and the contemporary. Stephen De Staebler created totemic sculptures that explore the fragility of the human condition and our unparalleled capacity to persevere. His fractured figures—which draw on a diverse artistic lineage that includes the art of ancient Greece, Egypt and the Americas, Auguste Rodin, and Alberto Giacometti—hold a series of contradictory ideas in tension: earthly monumentality and spiritual transcendence; frailty and strength; and the primordial and the modern. De Staebler’s sculptures convey the struggles of earthly existence, and the inevitability of our own mortality. Yet they also suggest the possibility of transcendence despite our earthly limitations. The armless or headless torsos of many of his figures sit almost magically atop gracefully elongated legs reminiscent of the exaggerated anatomy found in Italian mannerist paintings. The preternatural, almost ethereal quality of these limbs seems to affirm humanity’s kinship to a divine other. One Legged Woman Standing will join Montalvo’s first De Staebler acquisition, Winged Figure Ascending, another of the works featured in the 2015 exhibition. This sculpture too seemed to find its home once it was placed prominently at the front stair of the Historic Villa, welcoming visitors to Montalvo and indicating the underlying purpose of the property as an art center. The works now compose a distant relationship across the Great Lawn of Montalvo, activating the creative spaces within. Mattes said of the connection, “This is one of those occasions that is so thoroughly perfect... as if always meant to be. It’s simply wonderful.” “The timing of this generous gift, from an artist whose body of work represents the fragility of the human condition and our unparalleled capacity to persevere, is particularly apt given this moment in history,” says Angela McConnell, Executive Director. “Montalvo’s Board of Trustees, patrons, and staff couldn’t be more grateful than to mark 2020 with the addition of this significant work. The One Legged Woman Standing will remain a reminder as Montalvo continues to weave the historic with the present and the future, marking our own perseverance through this historic moment. De Staebler’s work is reminiscent for me of one of my favorite concepts: wabisabi—which is a Japanese word translated to mean that there is beauty in imperfection. This new work is just that, beautiful in its imperfect human form. Our deepest thanks to Ms. Mattes and the Dolby Chadwick Gallery for keeping Montalvo’s mission at the forefront of your mind when considering this incredible sculpture.” One Legged Woman Standing may be viewed at the base of Montalvo’s Great Lawn during open park hours. Montalvo Arts Center is a donor-supported nonprofit institution whose mission is to engage the public in the creative process, acting as a catalyst for exploring the arts, unleashing creativity, and advancing different cultural perspectives. Located in Silicon Valley's Saratoga Hills, Montalvo occupies 175 stunning acres and is home to the Sally and Don Lucas Artists Program (LAP), the Carriage House Concert Series, and a robust arts education program. Photos: Isaiah Plaza
With most of the world still under quarantine due to COVID-19, art fairs that normally draw in thousands of guests have been forced to go virtual. To combat the cancellation of this years show schedule, in March 2020 Art Basel launched it's Online Viewing Rooms, an adaptation of their physical fair that allows viewers to browse and buy artworks from curated exhibitions, right from the comfort of their home. Three months later they're back with another round, featuring 282 new online viewing rooms from 35 different countries and over 4,000 artworks! We sifted through the virtual rooms and are thrilled to report that 14 of our past (and future) LAP Fellows have work featured in the online fair! Keep scrolling to learn more about our fellows and to see all their featured works. Rafa Esparza (2019 Fellow) Shown by Commonwealth and Council Rafa Esparza is a multidisciplinary artist who was born, raised, and is currently living in Los Angeles. Woven into Esparza’s bodies of work are his interests in history, personal narrative, and kinship. He is inspired by his own relationship to colonization and the disrupted genealogies that come forth as a result. Using live performance as his main mode of inquiry, Esparza employs site-specificity, materiality, memory and (non)documentation as primary tools to interrogate and critique ideologies, power structures and binaries that problematize the “survival” process of historicized narratives and the environments where people currently navigate and socialize. Esparza’s recent projects evolve through experimental collaborative projects grounded by laboring with land vis a vis adobe, a labor inherited by his father Ramon Esparza, where the artist shares institutional space and resources with invited Brown and Queer artists and cultural producers. Esparza is invested in working in the local geographies of his home town and that of the Southwest, including Mexico and Latin America. Learn more about the artist at commonwealthandcoucil.com. Watch a video from the artist discussing these two new pieces here. Rochelle Feinstein received a B.F.A. from Pratt Institute in 1975 and an M.F.A. from the University of Minnesota in 1978. She lives and works in New York City. Her work is exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums in the United States and Europe, and is included in numerous public and private collections. She taught at Bennington College until 1994, when she was appointed to the Yale faculty. She is currently professor of painting/printmaking. Learn more about the artist at rochellefeinstein.com. Morgan Fisher (2009 Fellow) Shown by Bortolami Morgan Fisher is a filmmaker and visual artist working mostly in painting. His films have shown at the New York, Rotterdam, and Berlin Film Festivals. A retrospective of his films was at Tate Modern, The Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA), Los Angeles. He exhibited paintings at Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, in 2007 and in 2008 at Art Unlimited at Art Basel and at China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles. Learn more about the artist at bortolamigallery.com. Anya Gallaccio (2007 Fellow) Shown by Thomas Dane Gallery Anya Gallaccio attended Kingston Polytechnic and Goldsmiths' College at the University of London, and now lives and works in London. Gallaccio creates site-specific installations, often using organic materials as her medium. Past projects have included arranging a ton of oranges on a floor, placing a thirty-two ton block of ice in a boiler room, and painting a wall with chocolate. The nature of these materials results in natural processes of transformation and decay, often with unpredictable results. Learn more about the artist at blumandpoe.com. Zarina Hashmi (2006 Fellow) Shown by Luhring Agustine Zarina Hashmi, who prefers to be referred to simply as Zarina, was born in 1937 and raised in Aligarh, India. After receiving a degree in mathematics, she went on to study woodblock printing in Bangkok and Tokyo, and intaglio with S. W. Hayter at Atelier-17 in Paris. Best known as a printmaker, Zarina prefers to carve instead of draw the line, to gouge the surface rather than build it up. She has used various mediums of printmaking including intaglio, woodblocks, lithography, and silkscreen, and she frequently creates series of several prints in order to reference a multiplicity of locales or concepts. Learn more about the artist at zarina.work. Sohrab Hura (2019 Fellow) Shown by Experimenter Sohrab Hura was born on 17th October 1981 in a small town called Chinsurah in West Bengal, India and he grew up changing his ambitions from one exciting thing to another. He started with dreams of growing up and becoming a dog, which later turned to becoming a superhero and then to a veterinarian to a herpetologist to becoming a wild life film maker. Today he is a photographer, after having completed his Masters in Economics. He is currently the coordinator of the Anjali House children’s photography workshop that takes place during the Angkor Photo Festival, Cambodia every year and his home base is New Delhi, India. [Magnum Photos] Learn more about the artist at sohrabhura.com. Watch The Lost Head & The Bird here. Shreyas Karle (2009 Fellow) Shown by Grey Noise Multi-mediatic in his practice, Shreyas Karle works with formats such as video, sculptural forms, illustrative/narrative book formats, collages, and collaborative community projects. His works are loaded with visual pun, often developed with reference to mundane objects or situations. Absurdity becomes a metaphor which he uses to reflect upon social situations, thus creating an ambience of humour that mocks the ironies of reality. Interactivity is an integral part of his meaning making process, especially with reference to his community and collaborative projects. In an effort to resist labelling he pushes his practice in various directions, constantly camouflaging various ideas within a single work. Learn more about the artist at ocula.com. Meiro Koizumi (2019 Fellow) Shown by Annet Gelink Gallery Meiro Koizumi (1976, Gunma, Japan) investigates the boundaries between the private and the public, a domain of specific importance to his native Japanese culture. His videos are often based on performances and constructed scenarios. He places characters, played by himself or others, in awkward situations. Often starting harmoniously he gradually heightens the tension manipulating the situation from humorous to painful. His performances focus and enlarge the moment when a situation gets out of control, becomes embarrassing or breaks social rules. His works also include drawings and collages. [Annet Gelink Gallery] Learn more about the artist at meirokoizumi.com. Adrian Paci (2007 Fellow) Shown by Galerie Peter Kilchmann Adrian Paci is an artist from Albania who is currently based in Milan, Italy. Originally a painter, with a classic education from the Art Academy in Tirana, today he works in many techniques, including painting, photography and video. Paci’s work reveals a great passion for social issues where justice and dedication for human beings are prominent. His childhood and adolescence in Albania, as subsequent emigration to Italy are experiences that often recur in his art. Learn more about the artist at guggenheim.org. Michael Rakowitz (2007 Guest Artist) Shown by Barbara Wien An artist based in Chicago and New York City. Rakowitz’s work has appeared in exhibitions worldwide including P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, MassMOCA, the Tirana Biennale, the National Design Triennial at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, and Transmediale 05: BASICS at the House of World Cultures in Berlin. Rakowitz is an Associate Professor in Art Theory and Practice at Northwestern University and is a Contributing Editor for Surface Tension: A Journal on Spatial Arts. Learn more about the artist at michaelrakowitz.com. Wilhelm Sasnal deliberately eludes categorization, working in both the abstract and the figurative, constantly shifting subject matter, technique and style. His paintings exist in some respects as formal exercises. They toy with the conventions of representation, using perspective and focus to disrupt our expectations. They attempt to understand and record visual reality. In many the medium itself becomes the subject, as Sasnal concentrates on new ways in which to manipulate and apply his paint. In painting seaweed he uses his bare hands, while in his image of a windy tree, it is as if the paint itself has been swept across the paper by the elements. Learn more about the artist at artnet.com. Penny Siopis (2019 Fellow) Shown by Stevenson Siopis was born in 1953 in Vryburg, South Africa, and lives in Cape Town. She has an MFA and an Honorary Doctorate from Rhodes University, and is currently an Honorary Professor at Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town. Her work since the early 1980s has encompassed painting, film/video, photography and installation. All her explorations, whether with body politics, memory, migration, or the relations between the human and non-human, are characterised by her interest in what she calls the ‘poetics of vulnerability’ – embodied in the dynamic play between materiality and reference, chance and contingency, form and formlessness, personal and collective history. [Stevenson] Learn more about the artist at pennysiopis.com. SUPERFLEX [Bjornstjerne Christiansen, Jakob Fenger, Rasmus Nielsen] (2005 Fellow) Shown by Kukje Gallery/Tina Kim Gallery, OMR, Nils Staerk, and Von Bartha The Danish artists' group Superflex (Rasmus Nielsen, Jakob Fenger and Bjornstjerne Christiansen) has been working together since 1993 on a series of projects related to economic forces, democratic production conditions and self-organisation. The artists have examined alternative energy production methods and commodity production in Brazil, Thailand and Europe in their projects, which both expose and question the existing economic structures. These artistic activities ÷ as, for example, the on-going project Guarana power, in which the artists developed a drink together with local farmers who cultivate the caffeine-rich berries of the guarana plant ÷ are not necessarily opposed to commercialism and globalisation, but try instead to render economic structures visible and to establish a new balance between producers and consumers. Learn more about the artist group at superflex.net. Sue Williamson (2004 Fellow) Shown by Goodman Gallery Sue Williamson occupies an influential and highly respected position in the South African art world, as a visual artist but also as a writer and cultural worker. The main thread connecting her art is an ability to bring the marginalized into the mainstream consciousness of society, to make visible the unseen and thereby record for posterity that which might otherwise be overlooked. In the 1980s, Williamson was well known for her series of portraits of women involved in the country's political struggle. A Few South Africans went some way towards filling the representational void of people and events during apartheid. And in many ways, her recent video work focusing on South African immigrants is a return to this concern. Learn more about the artist at sue-williamson.com.
"Weeping Mary was composed by Matthew Petty after spending time in Weeping Mary, TX and meeting the eldest descendants of those freed slaves whose land was stolen. Mr. Petty asked me to record the song in his studio while we were Lucas Artist Fellows at the Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga, CA. It was recorded in 2018 and today we can feel the profound resonance for the times in which we are living. It is time to be shared.
​ Listen, weep, mourn, love and keep and moving." —Alva Rogers
UPDATE (06/19/20)
"Alva and I have taken Weeping Mary to a new level with the addition of video artist Lisa Crafts. We all pitched in on the footage, which includes video from around the country, including the area in which George Floyd lived in Minnesota, Alva’s doll work, and the town of Weeping Mary itself. ​I feel it really captures a sense of this American Summer." ​ —Matt Petty SARATOGA, Calif. — Montalvo Arts Center’s Sally and Don Lucas Artists Program is proud to announce its most recent Lucas Artists Fellowship awards to 33 artists of exceptional talent from across the US and the world. This distinguished group includes individuals from 16 countries working in the fields of visual arts, architecture, urbanism, and design. This includes visual arts media such as drawing, painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, film, design, and printmaking, as well as artists working in the fields of performance, social practice, and sound art. These Fellows were born or reside in the following countries: the United States, Japan, the Netherlands, Mexico, India, South Africa, Argentina, South Korea, Spain, Bangladesh, Guatemala, Taiwan, the Philippines, Italy, Venezuela, and England. Every three years, by discipline, the Lucas Artists Program (LAP) invites a distinguished panel of international nominators to identify up to three emerging, mid-career, or established artists who have the potential to become significant voices of their generation. These artists then pass through a highly selective jury process. Each artist selected is awarded three months in the Lucas Artists Residency over three years, with the ability to return multiple times. Lucas Artists Fellows are also welcomed to bring collaborators into residence with them. This represents significant ongoing support for an artist’s work over a three-year period. Located within a 175-acre public park and historic property in the heart of the Silicon Valley in California, the Lucas Artists Program (LAP) is an interdisciplinary creative incubator and cultural producer dedicated to investing in artists from all disciplines and geographical locations and to supporting the creative process and sharing of ideas. The LAP provides artists with time and space to develop new work, take risks, and forge collaborative partnerships. The LAP also supports artists as they engage the community in critical conversation through the creation and presentation of new work and varied public program offerings. This approach is grounded in Montalvo’s belief that artists’ voices enrich our world and serve as a catalyst for debate about issues important to us all. Montalvo houses the oldest artist residency program on the West Coast of the US, hosting artists since 1939. The new LAP facility at Montalvo was inaugurated in late 2004 and has hosted over 1,000 artists from more than thirty countries since its opening. The LAP’s campus comprises 11 free-standing, state-of-the-art artist studios and residence spaces designed by artist-and-architect collaborative teams, and a Commons and Library. As part of this selection, Montalvo inaugurates a new residency fellowship in collaboration with Santa Clara University, through the generous support of Charmaine and Dan Warmenhoven. The first Fellow of this collaboration is Los Angeles-based multidisciplinary artist Rafa Esparza. “The Lucas Artists Residency Program is the soul of Montalvo,” said Executive Director Angela McConnell. “It is one of the key ways in which we reaffirm our mission to engage the community in the creative process and has gained us international recognition as a creative incubator and a model of curatorial practice.” Sally and Don Lucas Artists Program Director Kelly Sicat said, “We look forward to welcoming this truly remarkable group of artists into the creative community of the Lucas Artists Program. We are honored to have the opportunity to support their practice in such an incredible facility, and to be able to share their work with the greater Silicon Valley community.” The 2019 Visual Arts jury has awarded Lucas Artists Visual Arts Fellowships to the following artists:
2019 Visual Arts Selection JuryBinh Danh
Binh Danh (MFA Stanford; BFA San Jose State University) emerged as an artist of national importance with work that investigates his Vietnamese heritage and our collective memory of war. His technique incorporates his invention of the chlorophyll printing process, in which photographic images appear embedded in leaves through the action of photosynthesis. His newer body of work focuses on nineteenth-century photographic processes, applying them in an investigation of battlefield landscapes and contemporary memorials. A recent series of daguerreotypes celebrated the United States National Park system during its anniversary year. His work is in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The DeYoung Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Center for Creative Photography, the George Eastman Museum, and many others. He received the 2010 Eureka Fellowship from the Fleishhacker Foundation, and in 2012 he was a featured artist at the 18th Biennale of Sydney in Australia. He is represented by Haines Gallery (San Francisco) and Lisa Sette Gallery (Phoenix). He lives and works in San Jose and teaches photography at San Jose State University. Read more. Nellie King Solomon Nellie King Solomon is not interested in making traditional paintings. She instead experiments with materials to see what they can say about painting. Solomon's background in architecture and Supergraphics has laid a foundation for her work. She studied architecture at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York, and holds a BA in Art from University of California Santa Cruz and an MFA from California College of the Arts. She has taught at Stanford University and California College of the Arts and has worked as an artist assistant to David Ireland, and in architectural restoration on the Palazzo St Polo in Venice. She lived in Paris, Venice, Barcelona, and New York City before returning to California. Solomon’s work has been featured in Art in America, Huffington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Art Practical, Wallpaper, Harvard Review, ArtBlitzLA, Zyzzyva, and Architectural Digest, among other publications. She has exhibited at The UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Crocker Art Museum, Bolinas Museum, Brian Gross Fine Art, Braunstein/Quay, The Battery, Ochi Projects LA, Ochi Gallery Sun Valley, N’Namdi Contemporary in Chicago, Detroit, and Miami. Her work is collected by Steve Wynn, Blue Shield, Visa, Yves Béhar, Sabrina Buell, and The UC Berkeley Art Museum. Read more. Betti-Sue Hertz Betti-Sue Hertz is a contemporary arts curator, writer, and educator working at the intersection of visual art, transcultural exchange, and socially relevant issues. Her current highlights include being the Public Arts Director at TLS Landscape Architecture for Lion Mountain Park in Suzhou, China; Project Curator at Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at UC Davis; and Co-Director of On Susan Sontag: Media, Modernity & Morality, a San Francisco Art Institute lead multi-venue season of programs that will take place in the fall of 2019. Hertz was Director of Visual Arts at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts from 2008–2015, where she curated numerous exhibitions that often focused on global art and political agency. In 2019, she was appointed as director and chief curator of the Wallach Art Gallery. Read more. Takeshi Moro Takeshi Moro was born in Japan, raised in the UK, and currently works in the San Francisco Bay Area. Moro studied photography at the Rhode Island School of Design and holds a BA in Visual Arts from Brown University. He completed his MFA graduate studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Moro’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago) and Serlachius Museot (Finland). His work resides in the permanent collection at Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago), as well as in various private collections. Read more. Rory Padeken Rory Padeken is Assistant Curator at the San Jose Museum of Art. He is currently developing exhibitions with Diana Thater, Richard Misrach, and Tabaimo. In 2013, he led SJMA’s curatorial team on the museum’s largest and most ambitious exhibition program to date, Around the Table: food, creativity, community, which included 30 artists, 18 commissions, and 43 community partners. He has also curated several exhibitions from SJMA’s permanent collection and served as curator of record for traveling exhibitions from museums across the nation. Prior to his first appointment at SJMA as curatorial assistant, he was the Achenbach Graphic Arts Council Fellow at the Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. He received a BA in History of Art from the University of California, Berkeley and an MA in Visual and Critical Studies from California College of the Arts, San Francisco. His MA thesis focused on British artist Tacita Dean. Read more. |