Select Curatorial Projects
August 26 - Oct 26, 2024. Muriel Hasbun: With the Pulse of a Community / Con el pulso de una comunidad. A multimedia exhibition of several projects—including photographs, video, shared archives, and sculptural installations—representing over 35 years of personal and cultural investigation by the artist toward processing ideas of home, exile, the traumas of war, and the endurance of identity and memory. Largely based on archives and memories of El Salvador during the Civil War, Hasbun’s work coalesces rediscovered personal and community artifacts into transient works of reconciliation where universal truths about war, death, and legacy are rendered into new work marking the presence and continuum of a rich cultural diaspora. An artist and educator, Hasbun recovers historical information, often lost or hidden, and activates the space across borders, generations, and cultural divides; enacting culturally responsive and equitable sites of dialogue, healing, learning, and creativity, with a special focus on generating knowledge about Central American art and culture. Exhibition Essay by Andy Grundberg. Salisbury University Art Galleries.
January 31 - March 29, 2025. Johab Silva: Electric Liquid. Silva's research uses new media to respond to urban development issues. Silva explores the enduring power of water—its power to shape and reshape our lives, its commodification as a utility and dumping ground, and its increasing scarcity. Through large-scale projection mapping, neo-noir lighting, virtual reality, sculptural installations, and traditional painting, Silva constructs a futuristic, synthetic world that sheds light on this complex issue from multiple perspectives. Salisbury University Art Galleries.
January 24 - March 29, 2025. Climate Stories featured artists Lynn Cazabon, Leigh Davis, Sondra Arkin & Ellyn Weiss (The Human Flood), and Lionel Frazier White III. In partnership with the Environmental Studies Department to demonstrate the necessity of interdisciplinary partnerships in addressing climate change, offering a broader collaborative lens for our collective wicked problem. By combining environmental and scientific insights with artistic expression, collaborations like this can engage communities more effectively and more widely. The exhibition’s programming included Wicomico River Stories with Gina Bloodworth and Shane Hall and an artist talk with the exhibiting artists, moderated by gallery student worker and Environmental Studies major Ruby Muzanila. Salisbury University Art Galleries.
Sept 1 – October 22, 2023. Scavenger Deities, A year-long partnership and exhibition with artist Rachel Schmidt and Rich O’Meara on value, sustainability, the loss of her art partner, Kevin O’Meara, and healing through repurposing museum waste into works of art. and reinterpreting the sound recordings of Kevin by his father. Visual Art Center of Richmond.
HARD ART DC 1979: An exhibition and published book (Akashic Books) about the birth and community of the DC punk movement through the photography of two-time Pulitzer prize winner Lucian Perkins. Essay by Henry Rollins, writing by Alec MacKaye. Co-Curator: Lely Constantinople.
Exhibitions include:
Summerhall Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2024
Neurotitan Gallery, Berlin, Germany, with the film Punk the Capital, 2022
Lost Origins Gallery, Washington, DC, 2022
agnes b. headquarters gallery, Paris, France, 2015
Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University, Durham, NC, 2014
Good Children Gallery, New Orleans, LA, 2012
Civilian Art Projects, Washington, DC, 2011
January 27 – March 11, 2018. Frank DiPerna: Retrospective. A comprehensive survey of the artist's photographic work over more than forty years. Comprised of multiple bodies of work beginning in 1974 continuing through today; each project was accomplished through using the most advanced technology of the time-from black and white to color film to the classic Polaroid SX-70 to the possibility of digital color photography. The flow of work, from series to series over decades, reveals a careful eye recording and at times choreographing a changing yet consistent world transcending both time and place. American University Museum, Washington, DC.
June 1 – August 5, 2017 and September 6 – November 12, 2017. Living On The Land, Vol. 1. and Vol. 2 offered an exhibition presenting diverse perspectives on the relationship to the land on which humans live. Artists included Colby Caldwell, Hasan Elahi, Margo Elsayd, Eve Hennessa, Peter Garfield, Amber Robles-Gordon, Rachel Schmidt, Noelle Tan and Curtis Woody. Their works consider the cyclical nature of life and death; obligations of humankind to connect, heal and grow thoughtful and engaged communities; and power disparities in contemporary culture, including the legacy of slavery on the Eastern Shore. Their projects also explore the remnants of stories and traces of history left behind in objects, ideas and situations, as well as a shared obligation to protect the environment and heal the land. The artists work in a variety of media, including black-and-white and color photography, site-specific installation, video, sculpture, painting and more. For “Living on the Land,” they also provide unique opportunities for interaction. One, for example, will build a medicine wheel to heal the land, while another will engage with a local youth group. The exhibit also featured works from Salisbury community artists, reflecting on the theme of what it means to live on the land. Salisbury University Art Galleries and St. Mary’s College of Maryland.
2006-2008. DARFUR/DARFUR. A traveling exhibit of digitally-projected images on the multi-cultural region while exposing the ongoing humanitarian crisis as told through the lens of photojournalists and one marine. The exhibit toured 24 countries in 27 months and was projected on the façade of museums. Served as Assistant Curator for the exhibition at the below venues as well as fundraiser and manager. Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta, Canada and City Museum, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
March 4 – April 30, 2012. Collective Archive. School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, MD.
June 2011. Noelle K. Tan, Curated the photography exhibition of this noted Filipino-American artist. Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL.
June 6 – July 26, 2009. Frontier Preachers: Artists from New Orleans. Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN.
June 9 – July 14, 2000. Tandem: Passages. An exhibition and residency for artists from the countries of the former Yugoslavia. Curatorial research took place in the region in 1999 thanks to a generous grant from the Trust for Mutual Understanding to bring five artists to Washington. With curator Katherine Carl. DC Arts Center & Signal 66 in Washington, DC.
