Evan Garza

Innovative curator and art historian with 20 years experience in contemporary exhibition making, a decade in museums managing diverse collections and exhibitions, and an extensive record of publications. Fulbright Scholar and institutional leader skilled in curation, project and budget management, art historical research and scholarship, publications, and community partnerships.

• AIDS + Readymades: 1981-Present, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA, Summer 2027-2028
• Brother to Brother: Marlon Riggs & Essex Hemphill, Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, CA, March–July 2027; MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA, Spring 2028
• Steve Locke: the fire next time, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA, Aug 3, 2024–Nov 8, 2025
• 2021 Texas Biennial: A New Landscape, A Possible Horizon, co-curated with Ryan N. Dennis, a program of Big Medium, Austin,TX. San Antonio: Artpace, McNay Art Museum, Ruby City, San Antonio Museum of Art; Houston: FotoFest, Aug 1, 2021–Jan 30, 2022
• Nina Katchadourian: Please, Please, Pleased to Meet'cha, Rice Public Art, Rice University Central Quad, Houston, TX, March 18–Sep 30, 2021
• Erika Blumenfeld: Encyclopedia of Trajectories, Rice University BioScience Research Collaborative, Houston, TX, April 30–Oct 26, 2018
• Jarrod Beck: Origin, 135 degrees, Rice Public Art, Rice University Academic Quad, Houston, TX, Oct 21, 2017–April 31, 2018
• Warhol By the Book, Managing curator, organized by The Andy Warhol Museum, Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin, Oct 16, 2016–Jan 29, 2017
• Come as You Are: Art of the 1990s, Managing curator, organized by Montclair Art Museum, Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin, Feb 22–May 15, 2016
• Witness: Art & Civil Rights in the Sixties, Managing curator, organized by Brooklyn Museum, Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin, Feb 15–May 10, 2015
• PAINT THINGS: beyond the stretcher, co-curated with Dina Deitsch, deCordova Sculpture Park & Museum, Lincoln, MA, Jan 27–April 21 (catalogue)
• Something Along Those Lines, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, Sep 13–Nov 3, 2012
• william cordova: this one’s 4U (pa’ nosotros), Mills Gallery at Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA, Feb 10–April 15, 2012
• Digitalia: Intimacy in the Hyperreal, Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, TX, Jan 12–March 15, 2008

• Edited with text, Steve Locke: I said what I said. Introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Hilton Als, contributions by Robert Storr, Dr. Kymberly Pinder, Dr. Karen Kurczynski, and artist Craig Drennen, and an interview b6 Helen Molesworth. Co-published by DelMonico Books and MASS MoCA. March 17, 26 (forthcoming).
• Jeffrey Gibson: the space in which to place me, “IF YOU WANT TO LIFT YOURSELF UP LIFT UP SOMEONE ELSE,” 60th Venice Biennale U.S. Pavilion catalogue, Edited by Abigail Winograd, Christian Ayne Crouch, co-published by DelMonico Books, Portland Art Museum, Site Santa Fe, Bard Center for Indigenous Studies, 2025.
• Pepe Mar: Myth and Magic, "Amor Prohibido: Pepe Mar & the Queer Aggregation of Borders/Bodies", Tampa Museum of Art, 2025.
• Vincent Valdez: Just a Dream…, ”Somewhere In South Texas”, Published by MASS MoCA, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, and X Artists’ Books, Los Angeles, 2024.
• At Home: Alice Neel in the Queer World, “Annie Sprinkle Paints a Portrait of Alice Neel,” Edited with text by Hilton Als, David Zwirner Books/Simon & Schuster, Los Angeles, 2024.
• The Narrow Gate of the Here-and-Now. IMMA: 30 Years of the Global Contemporary, “Legacies of Resistance: Three Decades of the IMMA Collection,” Editor: Christina Kennedy, Published by IMMA – Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland, 2022.
• 2021 Texas Biennial: A New Landscape, A Possible Horizon, Published by Big Medium, Austin, TX, 2022.