EDUCATION

• Ph.D., History of Art and Architecture, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2015
• B.A., Art History / Anthropology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2006

RESEARCH AND AREAS OF INTEREST

• Race and representation in U.S. modern and contemporary art and visual culture
• Visualizations of eugenics, nativism, and other intersections of race, image, and politics

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

• University of Memphis, Director, The Martha and Robert Fogelman Galleries of Contemporary Art / Visiting Assistant Professor in Art History, Department of Art, August 2015-present
• Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Curatorial Research Assistant, Getty Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, 2014-2015
• Department of Black Studies (UCSB), Consulting Curator, A Vision of Change, 2013-2014
• Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Curatorial Assistant, Contemporary Art, 2008-2014
• Department of the History of Art and Architecture (UCSB), Teaching Associate, 2011-2012

AWARDS / HONORS / FELLOWSHIPS

• Critic's Pick on www.artforum.com for exhibition Living in the Timeless: Drawings by Beatrice Wood (organizing curator), Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 2014
• Humanities and Social Sciences Research Grant, Graduate Division, UCSB, 2011
• Department Special Fellow, UCSB, 2006-2011
• Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society
• The John and June Allcott Undergraduate Travel Fellow, UNC, 2005
• Singapore Summer Immersion Program Alumni Research Fellow, UNC, 2004

TEACHING EXPERIENCE / UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS

• ARTH 4037/6037: Conflict and Culture in American Art, 1865-1945
• ARTH 2010: World Art I, Survey – Ancient to Medieval

TEACHING EXPERIENCE / UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA

• ARTH 121B: American Art, 1865-1915
• ARTH 121C: American Art, 1900-present

SELECTED CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE

• Sue Johnson: Home of Future Things, The Martha and Robert Fogelman Galleries of Contemporary Art, September - November 2016, organizing curator (brochure)
  
• Rodrigo Valenzuela: Frontiers, The Martha and Robert Fogelman Galleries of Contemporary Art, August - October 2016, organizing curator
• The True Gospel Preached Here: Photographs by Bruce West, The Martha and Robert Fogelman Galleries of Contemporary Art, October – November 2015, organizing curator
• A Vision of Change, North Hall, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2015
• Living in the Timeless: Drawings by Beatrice Wood, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, May – August 2014, organizing curator
• Labour and Wait, July – September 2013 (catalogue)
• Myth and Materiality: Latin American Art from the Permanent Collection, 1930-1990, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, February – May 2013, organizing curator (brochure)
• Pasadena to Santa Barbara: A Selected History of Art in Southern California, 1951-1969, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, February – May 2012 (part of the Getty Foundation's initiative, Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980) (catalogue)
• Charles Garabedian: A Retrospective, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, January – May 2011 (catalogue)
• Yinka Shonibare, MBE: A Flying Machine for Every Man, Woman and Child and Other Astonishing Works, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, March – June 2009 (brochure)

PRESS

• Fredric Koeppel, "Valenzuela, Garnica confront contemporary issues at Fogelman Galleries," The Commercial Appeal, Aug. 30, 2016.
• Fredric Koeppel, "Art: The year's 10 Best Exhibitions," The Commercial Appeal, Dec. 21, 2015.
• Annie Buckley, "Critic's Pick: Beatrice Wood," Artforum.com, Aug. 18, 2014.

PUBLICATIONS (PUBLISHED AND FORTHCOMING)

• "Beatrice Wood" in 75 in 25: Important Acquisitions at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Santa Barbara, CA: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 2016.
• Essays on Tonico Lemos Auad, Wim Delvoye, Daniel Dewar and Grégory Gicquel, Theaster Gates, Tim Hawkinson, Josiah McElheny, and David Thorpe in Labour and Wait. Santa Barbara, CA: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 2013.
• Essays on Karl Benjamin, William Brice, Sam Francis, John McLaughlin, and Richards Ruben and "Timeline" in Pasadena to Santa Barbara: A Selected History of Art in Southern California, 1951-1969. Santa Barbara, CA: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 2012.
• "Chronology," in Charles Garabedian: A Retrospective. Santa Barbara, CA: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 2011.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

• Invited lecture, "Bruce Conner," Presentation to Santa Barbara High School's Visual Arts and Design Academy, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 2011.
• Paper presented, "From Archetype to Stereotype: Nineteenth-Century Imaginings of 'The Mexican' in Mexico and the United States," UCSB History of Art and Architecture Graduate Symposium "Reused, Recycled, and Re-Viewed," February 26, 2010.
• Invited lecture, "Defining America: Racial Politics in Sheet Music and Vaudeville," Music, History, and Race Discussion Series Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Music, UCSB, Spring 2007.

COMMUNITY SERVICE & OUTREACH

• Invited film introduction, Parce que j'etais peintre / Because I Was a Painter (2013), Tournées French Film Festival, Rhodes College, February 9, 2016.