Rita Gonzalez
{{Short description|American curator, author and media artist}}
Rita Gonzalez is an American curator, author and media artist. She is the head of the contemporary art department at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), an institution she has worked at since 2004.{{Cite web|url=https://www.laweekly.com/arts/rita-gonzalez-lacma-curator-and-defender-of-subtlety-4183385|title=Rita Gonzalez: LACMA Curator and Defender of Subtlety|last=Wagley|first=Catherine|date=2013-05-15|website=L.A. Weekly|access-date=2019-03-09}} Many of her curatorial projects involve under-recognized Latinx and Latin American artists.{{Cite web|url=http://www.artnews.com/2019/02/28/lacma-rita-gonzalez-head-contemporary-art/|title=Rita Gonzalez Appointed Head of LACMA's Contemporary Art Department|last=Durón|first=Maximilíano|date=2019-02-28|website=ARTnews|language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-09}}
Early life and education
Gonzalez grew up in Whittier, California, studied at University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), University of California, San Diego (UCSD), and completed P.h.D. coursework in the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) film, television and digital media program on topics related to representation of Chicano art in contemporary art discourse.{{Cite web|url=https://www.laweekly.com/arts/rita-gonzalez-lacma-curator-and-defender-of-subtlety-4183385|title=Rita Gonzalez: LACMA Curator and Defender of Subtlety|last=Wagley|first=Catherine|date=2013-05-15|website=L.A. Weekly|access-date=2019-03-09}}{{Cite web|url=http://viscrit.cca.edu/12-10-2008-rita-gonzalez/|title=12.10.2008 / Rita Gonzalez|date=2014-01-17|website=CCA's Graduate Program in Visual + Critical Studies|language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-09}}
In 2018, Gonzalez participated in the Center for Curatorial Leadership program, with Anne Pasternak as her mentor at the Brooklyn Museum.
Career
From 1997 to 1999, Gonzalez served as the Lila Wallace Curatorial Fellow at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego.{{Cite web|url=https://roski.usc.edu/events/roski-talk-rita-gonzalez-0|title=Roski Talk: Rita Gonzalez {{!}} Roski School of Art and Design|website=roski.usc.edu|access-date=2019-03-09}}
Gonzalez's curatorial oeuvre at LACMA includes Phantom Sightings: Art after the Chicano Movement (2008), Asco: Elite of the Obscure, A Retrospective, 1972–1987 (2011), L.A. Exuberance: New Gifts by Artists (2016), and A Universal History of Infamy (2018), a collaboration with José Luis Blondet and Pilar Tompkins Rivas.{{Cite web|url=https://www.artforum.com/news/lacma-names-rita-gonzalez-head-of-contemporary-art-78816|title=LACMA Names Rita Gonzalez Head of Contemporary Art|website=www.artforum.com|date=28 February 2019 |language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-09}}
In 2017, Gonzalez served on the jury for the stand prizes of Frieze Art Fair.Sarah P. Hanson (4 May 2017), [https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2017/05/03/galleries-showing-historic-feminist-and-politically-minded-artists-win-frieze-stand-prizes Galleries showing historic feminist and politically minded artists win Frieze stand prizes] The Art Newspaper.
References
External links
- [https://www.ucpress.edu/op/9780520255630/phantom-sightings Phantom Sightings: Art after the Chicano Movement] - book/exhibition catalog authored by Rita Gonzalez, Howard Fox and Chon A. Noriega
- [https://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/phantom-sightings-art-after-chicano-movement Phantom Sightings: Art after the Chicano Movement] - 2008 exhibition at LACMA
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Category:American art curators
Category:American women curators
Category:21st-century American writers
Category:21st-century American artists
Category:People from Whittier, California