Curator, SculptureCenter

Jovanna Venegas currently serves as the curator at SculptureCenter in New York. From 2017 to 2023, she worked at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, concluding her tenure as the Associate Curator of Contemporary Art. While at SFMOMA she curated New Work: Fernando Palma Rodríguez (2023) and Bay Area Walls: Liz Hernández (2021), and co-organized New Work: Wu Tsang Presents Moved by the Motion (2021); Shifting the Silence (2022); the 2022 SECA Art Award; and Sitting on Chrome: Mario Ayala, rafa esparza, and Guadalupe Rosales (2023-2024). Additionally, she served as curatorial advisor for the Whitney Biennial 2022 on the U.S./Mexico border region and has contributed to projects and exhibitions at MUAC (Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo) and La Tallera, both in Mexico City. Venegas holds a BA in art history from the University of California at Los Angeles and an MA in curatorial practice from the School of Visual Arts, New York. 

Photo: Marcel Pardo Ariza