DIVERSE DISCOURSE LECTURE: DANIELA LIEJA QUINTANAR
Join DiverseWorks in the Gallery at MATCH on October 19 at 6:30 p.m. for the Fall 2022 Diverse Discourse Lecture: Curatorial practices for those at the center or edge of the spiral with Daniela Lieja Quintanar, Chief Curator & Deputy Director, Programs, REDCAT, Los Angeles.
Admission is free. RSVP HERE
Diverse Discourse brings national curators, artistic directors, and critics to Houston to present a free public lecture and conduct studio visits with Houston-area artists, performers, and writers.
Houston artists working in any discipline may apply online for a studio visit with Daniela. The studio visit application deadline is Monday, October 3, 2022.
About Daniela Lieja Quintanar
Daniela Lieja Quintanar (Mexico City, 1984) is the newly appointed Chief Curator & Deputy Director, Programs at REDCAT, Los Angeles. Previously, she was the Chief Curator and Director of Programming at LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions). She works between Los Angeles and Mexico, emphasizing contemporary art and curatorial practices that explore the politics and social issues of everyday life. She curated Intergalactix: against isolation/contra el aislamiento, an exhibition and research project that received awards from the Mike Kelley Foundation and the Andy Warhol Foundation’s Curatorial Research Fellowship Program. She was part of the curatorial team of MexiCali Biennial 2018-19 and served as Project Coordinator and Contributing Curatorial Advisor for Below the Underground: Renegade Art and Action in 1990s Mexico at the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena as part of the Getty PST: LA/LA initiative. In 2016, she worked with artist Teresa Margolles for her contribution La Sombra to the Public Art Biennial CURRENT: LA Water, andwas Research Assistant for the exhibition The Metropolis in Latin America, 1830–1930 for the Getty Research Institute, PST: LA/LA. She organized with LACE La Pista de Baile by Colectivo am, as part of the Getty/REDCAT PST: Live Art LA/LA Performance Festival. She curated Unraveling Collective Forms (2019); CAVERNOUS: Young Joon Kwak & Mutant Salon (2018); Emory Douglas: Bold Visual Language (2018, co-curated with Essence Harden); home away from by Jimena Sarno (2017); El Teatro Campesino (1965-1975), (2017, co-curated with Samantha Gregg) at LACE; Between Words and Silence: The Work of Translation and Down and to the Left: Reflections on Mexico in the NAFTA Era at the Armory Center for the Arts (both 2017, co-curated with Chief Curator Irene Tsatsos); and Acciones Territoriales (Territorial Acts) at the Museo Ex Teresa in Mexico City (2014). Lieja Quintanar holds a BA in Ciencias de la Cultura from the Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana, Mexico City, and an MA in Art and Curatorial Practices in the Public Sphere from the University of Southern California.