Tanya Zimbardo is a curator based in San Francisco. As the assistant curator of media arts at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, she is currently curating New Work: Kerry Tribe and co-curating Nam June Paik: In Character and Soundtracks (online catalogue). Zimbardo has organized and co-organized contemporary art exhibitions and select film and video screening programs at the museum and at several nonprofit arts organizations. Zimbardo’s research, writing and guest curatorial projects are primarily centered on the history of exhibitions and site-specific works since the 1960s, conceptual art and performance-based experimental media. Select past presentations include Organic Logic: Howard Fried, John Roloff, Mark Thompson at The Garage, 500 Capp Street Foundation; Equilibrium: A Paul Kos Survey at di Rosa; Public Works: Artists’ Interventions 1970s–Now, Mills College Art Museum (catalogue); and Versions: Kristin Lucas and Judy Malloy, Krowswork. As part of the recent spring season of the Art & Technology Colloquium at UC Berkeley, she gave a talk centered on Otto Piene and Aldo Tambellini, their co-founding of the Black Gate theater in New York fifty years ago, and their work at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS) program at MIT.

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