Betti-Sue Hertz is an American

art curator A curator (from la, cura, meaning "to take care") is a manager or overseer. When working with cultural organizations, a curator is typically a "collections curator" or an "exhibitions curator", and has multifaceted tasks dependent on the parti ...

and

art historian Art history is the study of aesthetic objects and visual expression in historical and stylistic context. Traditionally, the discipline of art history emphasized painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, ceramics and decorative arts; yet today ...

and director of the Wallach Art Gallery at

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

Education

Hertz has a BA from

Goddard College Goddard College is a progressive education private liberal arts low-residency college with three locations in the United States: Plainfield, Vermont; Port Townsend, Washington; and Seattle, Washington. The college offers undergraduate and gra ...

and an MFA from

Hunter College Hunter College is a public university in New York City. It is one of the constituent colleges of the City University of New York and offers studies in more than one hundred undergraduate and postgraduate fields across five schools. It also admi ...

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; she later studied for a

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in art history at the Graduate Center there ( ABD, 2000).

Career

Hertz was director of the Longwood Arts Project in the

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, from 1992–1998. She was curator of contemporary art at the

San Diego Museum of Art The San Diego Museum of Art is a fine arts museum located at 1450 El Prado in Balboa Park in San Diego, California that houses a broad collection with particular strength in Spanish art. The San Diego Museum of Art opened as The Fine Arts Galler ...

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, from 2000 to 2008, and then director of visual arts at the

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) is a multi-disciplinary contemporary arts center in San Francisco, California, United States. Located in Yerba Buena Gardens, YBCA features visual art, performance, and film/video that celebrates local, natio ...

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from 2009 to 2015. She taught at the

San Francisco Art Institute San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) was a private college of contemporary art in San Francisco, California. Founded in 1871, SFAI was one of the oldest art schools in the United States and the oldest west of the Mississippi River. Approximately ...

Betti-Sue Hertz
San Francisco Art Institute. Accessed May 2015 and at the California for the College of Arts.

Published Writings: Essays and Books

*(1999) Urban Mythologies: The Bronx Represented since the 1960s, “Artistic Interventions in the Bronx.” 18-27. NY:

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. () *(2002) "The Independent Wedge: A Brief History of Alternative Exhibition Spaces in the United States with Case Studies from New York" in In-between international community-initiated art space, 1a space, Hong Kong. *(2003) Selected Works,

, San Diego, authored 30 contemporary art entries. () *(2004 & 2006) Past in Reverse: Contemporary Art of East Asia,

, distributed by D.A.P., editor and essay, “Crisscross: New Trends in Art, East Asia,” 14-23. Essay republished in Chinese in Art China, Yishu Dangdai, Shanghai, winter, 2006. (catalogue :) *(2005) Farsites: Urban crises and domestic symptoms in contemporary art,

: Installation Gallery ; ijuana:

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, “The Mobility of the Fragment: Architectural Outtakes and Photographic Cuts of the Urban”; “New York City: Blackouts 1965, 1977." (catalogue: ) *(2006) Transmission: The Art of Matta and Gordon Matta Clark,

, distributed by University of Washington Press, 2006. Editor and essay, “Double Triangle: The Madness of the Unexpected,” 11-23. (catalogue: ) *(2006) Lisette Lagnado, Adriano Pedroa. eds. 27a. Bienal de São Paulo: Como Vivier Junto: Guia, São Paulo: Fundaçã, interviews with Mark Bradford (168), Lu Chunsheng (142), Taller Popular de Serigrafía (234), Héctor Zamora, (92). *(2006) Personal Views: Regarding Private Collections in San Diego,

, entries for six contemporary art collections: Eloisa and Chris Haudenschild (33), Irwin and Joan Jacobs (37), Michael Krichman and Carmen Cuenca (46), Lucille and Ron Neeley (49), Iris and Mathew Strauss (62), Joyce and Ted Strauss (65). () *(2007) Animated Painting,

, distributed by D.A.P., 2007. Editor and essay, “Handwork, Digital Flows, and Contemporary Art Animation”, 18-27. (catalogue: ) *(2007) “Taking it to the Streets: an interview with Betti-Sue Hertz by Calvin Reid,” in South Bronx Contemporary: Longwood Arts Project’s 25th Anniversary,

Bronx Council on the Arts The Bronx Council on the Arts (established 1962), is an art based culture agency that has grown to become the official cultural agency of the Bronx, New York City. It provides a “lifeline” to more than 4,800 artists and over 250 arts and comm ...

, 2007, 12-17. *(2008) Eleanor Antin: Historical Takes, co-published by Prestel and San Diego Museum of Art, 2008. Editor and essay, “Eleanor Antin’s Transpositions: A Feminist View of Academic Painting in the Age of Digital Photography”, 81-91. (catalogue: ) *(2010) Drifts and Derivations: Experiences, journeys and morphologies, Museo Nacional Centro De Arte, Reina Sofia, Madrid. Essay, “Roberto Matta: Convergences in Architecture, Landscape and Inscape.” Madrid : MNCARS, 203-215. (catalogue: ) *(2010) Yoshua Okón: US,

, San Francisco/Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City and Landucci, Mexico City, distributed by D.A.P. Essay, “Invoking the Productive Negative”, 5-15 (Spanish) and 69-79 (English). (catalogue: ) *(2010) Renée Green: Endless Dreams and Time-Based Streams,

, San Francisco, distributed by D.A.P. Editor and essay, “Seeing Text” 84-95. (catalogue: ). *(2010) “Autopaisaje, 1999-2001” in Gonzalo Lebrija: As Time Goes By, Other Criteria, London, 2010, 62-65. () *(2011) In Regina Basha, “Climate Change: East Coast to West Coast Curators Articulate the Evolving Curatorial Role”, in Marysol Nieves, Taking Aim!: The business of Being an Artist Today, Fordham University Press, Bronx, New York, 61-64. () *(2011) Audience as Subject,

, San Francisco, distributed by D.A.P., 2011. Editor and essay, “Audiences, Art, and the Potential of the Polis”, 15-24. (catalogue: ASIN: B00E3U38JS). *(2011) The Matter Within: Contemporary Art of India,

, San Francisco, distributed by D.A.P. Editor and essay, “Fragments of India: With Thought, Feeling, and Emotion”, 10-17. (catalogue: ). *(2011)

Song Dong Song Dong (, born 1966) is a Chinese contemporary artist, active in sculpture, installations, performance, photography and video. He has been involved in many solo and group exhibitions around the world, covering a range of themes and topics inc ...

: Dad and Mom, Don’t Worry About Us, We Are All Well,

, San Francisco, distributed by D.A.P. Editor and essay, “Changing Veneration’s Shape: Song Dong’s New Portraiture”, 75-79. (catalogue: ) *(2014) Dissident Futures,

, San Francisco, distributed by D.A.P. Editor and essay, “Rapid Flux: Notes on Art, the Sciences, and the Future, 9-13. (catalogue: ) *(2015) Public Intimacy: Art and Other Ordinary Act in South Africa,

, San Francisco, distributed by D.A.P. (forthcoming). Co-editor with Dominic Willsdon and Frank Smigiel. (catalogue: )

References

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