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BIOBIBLIOGRAPHY
Betti-Sue Hertz, born in New York in 1952, lives and works in San Diego. Curator of Contemporary Art at the San Diego Museum of Art, she organized the exhibition I-5 California: ‘Four Decades of Contemporary Art’ (2001). In 2000, she organized exhibitions as an independent curator for the Sculpture Center, New York and The Kitchen, New York. She was co-curator of ‘Urban Mythologies: The Bronx Represented Since the 1960s’ (1999) and the curator of ‘Beyond the Borders: Art By Recent Immigrants’ (1994), both for the Bronx Museum of the Arts. She co-directed ‘1990s Art from Cuba: A National Residency and Exhibition Program’, a cultural exchange project for five artists in five U.S. cities (1997-1999) and organized the travelling exhibition, ‘Las Casitas: An Urban Cultural Alternative for the Smithsonian Institution’, Washington, DC (1991). Hertz was executive director of Bronx River Art Center and Gallery (1983-1987) and director of Longwood Arts Project, an exhibition space and artist studio program (1992-1998). She was a member of RepoHistory, an artists' group focusing on absent and neglected histories (1990-1996). Hertz has written and spoken on a variety of subjects including art and urbanism, art from the Spanish-speaking Caribbean, and curatorial practice. She holds a M.F.A. from Hunter College, and is a doctoral candidate in Art History at The Graduate School, City University of New York, where she is writing a dissertation in the field of art and architecture.
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RECENT ACTIVITIES
Participated in the ‘International Conference on Independent Exhibition Spaces’ that took place in Hong Kong. Topic: ‘The Independent Wedge: A Short History of Alternative Spaces in the United States with Case Histories from New York’.
Participated in a symposium: ‘Distressed Landscapes’ at the Royal College of Art in London with a paper entitled ‘Art for Distressed Landscapes’.
Organizing the exhibition: ‘Axis Mexico: Common Objects and Collaborative Actions’. It with open in Sept. 2002 at the San Diego Museum of Art. |
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