Courtenay Finn is an American curator who is the chief curator at the

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. She was named curator of

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in January 2014 and chief curator at

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in September 2018 before she joined the Orange County Museum of Art in 2022. Formerly the curator at

Art in General Art in General was a non-profit contemporary art exhibition space known for its vibrant and ground-breaking projects as a formidable and longstanding New York City alternative space, focused on giving meaningful resources and opportunities to ar ...

from early 2011 to 2014, Finn's exhibitions include the gallery’s 30th anniversary exhibition ''Walking Forward-Running Past'' and the Zefrey Throwell participatory piece ''I'll Raise You One…'' as part of the performance art biennial Performa's 2011 edition. The Throwell piece had

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players bearing all in the gallery's street-level storefront space, while crowds of voyeurs clogged the street outside. She also curated solo exhibitions, ''You Are Here, This Is Now'' with artist Nyeema Morgan and ''Fifteen Seconds'' with photographer Lia Lowenthal, while at Art in General. In June 2013, Finn and Art in General director

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co-curated the Latvian Pavilion at the

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, along with Alise Tīfentāle, organizing a two-artist show by Kaspars Podnieks and Krišs Salmanis. She has also curated a show at Apex Art in 2010 called "You can't get there from here but you can get here from there" which included work by

Sophie Calle Sophie Calle (born 9 October 1953) is a French writer, photographer, installation artist, and conceptual artist. Calle's work is distinguished by its use of arbitrary sets of constraints, and evokes the French literary movement known as Oulipo. ...

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Rodney Graham William Rodney Graham (January 16, 1949 – October 22, 2022) was a Canadian visual artist and musician. He was closely associated with the Vancouver School. Early life Graham was born in Abbotsford, British Columbia, on January 16, 1949. ...

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, Kris Martin,

Bruce Nauman Bruce Nauman (born December 6, 1941) is an American artist. His practice spans a broad range of media including sculpture, photography, neon, video, drawing, printmaking, and performance. Nauman lives near Galisteo, New Mexico. Life and work ...

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