Apsara DiQuinzio
Photography by Page Bertelsen Photography
Apsara DiQuinzio is senior curator of contemporary art at the Nevada Museum of Art, where she oversees the contemporary program. Over the course of DiQuinzio’s twenty-year career as a curator, she has organized over fifty exhibitions of art, including solo exhibitions with leading contemporary artists such as Michael Armitage, Trisha Donnelly, Vincent Fecteau, Arthur Jafa, Cannupa Hanska Luger, Otobong Nkanga, Christina Quarles, R.H. Quaytman, and Paul Sietsema, among many others. Previously, she was the senior curator of modern and contemporary art and Phyllis C. Wattis MATRIX Curator at the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), where she managed the internationally-renowned MATRIX exhibition series. She has also held curatorial positions at SFMOMA and the Whitney Museum of American Art. In addition to founding the Feminist Art Coalition in 2017, she is the curator and editor of Adaline Kent: The Click of Authenticity; New Time: Art and Feminisms in the 21st Century; Ron Nagle: Handsome Drifter; Harvey Quaytman: Against the Static, Charles Howard: A Margin of Chaos; Six Lines of Flight: Shifting Geographies in Contemporary Art; and The Air We Breathe: Artists and Poets Reflect on Marriage Equality. Moreover, she has contributed essays to numerous exhibition catalogs and has written for Artforum, Mousse, The Exhibitionist, and Cura.