Betti-Sue Hertz

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About Betti-Sue Hertz

Betti-Sue Hertz is Director and Chief Curator at Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University in the City of New York. Trained as an art historian and artist, her curatorial and scholarly projects are fueled by the intersection of visual aesthetics and socially relevant ideas with a particular interest in relational structures and comparative propositions on global contemporary topics. She is Public Arts Consultant for TLS Landscape Architectures' Shishan Park, Suzhou (2016-) and Shenzhen Bay Super HQ (2020-) and was Curator-In-Residence at HOW Art Museum, Shanghai (2018). Hertz was Director of Visual Arts at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (2008-2015), Curator of Contemporary Art at San Diego Museum of Art and Director at Longwood Arts Project, Bronx (1992-1998). She has served as editor and essayist for various exhibition catalogues and lectures on urgent contemporary topics and art. Hertz was a lecturer on social art history at Stanford University's American Studies Program (2016-2019) and senior lecturer at San Francisco Art Institute"s Graduate School (2011-2019). Selected Exhibitions: Wallach Art Gallery: Uptown Triennial 2020 (2020), The Protest and The Recuperation (2021) Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, UC Davis: Solo shows on Tacita Dean, Pia Camil, Marc Johnson (2016-2018) Select exhibitions, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts-The Way Things Go: A Curatorial Project with Rirkrit Tiravanija (2015)-Landscape: the virtual, the actual, the possible; co-curator with Xiaoyu Weng and Ruijun Shen; organized by Kadist and Guangdong Times Museum (2014)- Public Intimacy: Art and Other Ordinary Acts; co-curator with Dominic Willsdon and Frank Smigiel; organized by YBCA and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2014)- Dissident Futures (2013)- Audience as Subject (2010 and 2012)- Song Dong: Dad and Mom, Don't Worry About Us, We Are All Well (2011)- The Matter Within: New Contemporary Art of India (2011)- Nayland Blake: Free!Love!Tool!Box!(2012). Recipient of the 2013 Award from the International Art Critics Association-USA Selected exhibitions, San Diego Museum of Art- Animated Painting (2007)- Transmission: The Art of Matta and Gordon Matta-Clark (2006)- Past in Reverse: Contemporary Art of East Asia (2004). Recipient of the Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award - Axis Mexico: Common Objects and Cosmopolitan Actions (2002)